hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts as uh promised i said i would be doing a lot of german
videos german related videos this one is going to be the animated history of germany part one
so there's a part two interesting but either ways guys if you are from germany wrap your country
in the comment section down below and also if you if you want to do this you could actually
suggest whatever you want me to check out next for your particular country which is germany
if you have any other suggestions apart from germany you can suggest it but preferably
german reactions are um going to be done as soon as possible because i'm doing a series right now
where it's strictly german video so the country we're focused on is germany but either ways guys
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related videos here at forum reacts but either ways guys let's go right into the reaction video
germany is located right in the center of europe between its two largest neighbors france and
poland strap yourselves in for a complicated one when the romans arrived in germany they found a
land inhabited by a melting pot of celtic and germanic peoples the diversity of the region
didn't interest the romans who called the land west of the rhine river gaul and east of the
river germania the germanic peoples were really good at fighting the romans but the people in
these regions lived mostly agrarian lifestyles in independent tribes these small tribes soon became
fewer big tribes these tribes weren't a nation as such but a conglomeration of independent smaller
states for centuries which is the reason why there are so many names for the german nation
to this day the germans expanded further into the weakening roman empire this great migration
period eventually became known as the great migration period historians aren't very creative
one of the tribes called the franks dominated the region and slowly conquered all of france germany
the low countries and parts of italy under the merovingian and carolinian dynasties much of this
conquest can be attributed to charlemagne also known as charles the great charlemagne's empire
became the foundation of the holy roman empire the symbolic successor to the actual roman empire
the empire was split into three kingdoms east west and middle frankie east franke eventually
came under the control of ottowa of saxony who married into the italian kingdom leading the
pope to revive the holy roman empire establishment of the state became one of the many precursors for
the division of the catholic and orthodox church the latter of which was still firmly controlled
by the eastern roman byzantines from the 11th to the 13th century the holy roman empire was a key
nation in the crusades which began as military expeditions to the holy land against the growing
seljuk turk empire in 12 30 the german teutonic order of knights and bros so you're telling me
it's like it's like since the original existence of humanity we have been fighting
man look at russia bro bro it's like we like humans are just not capable of being satisfied bro
like if you find yourself being capable of being satisfied with where you are in life bro
be happy because you are unique because a lot of us humans we cannot even satisfy bro
we're a millionaire and we like or i need a billy like why why do you need it though
what are you gonna do is you're gonna give it away no you're gonna use it for yourself but you
can't spend a billion dollars by yourself can you right so humans are really greedy and it's
an area called prussia in an attempt to eliminate the remnant pagans from europe around the same
time german towns and villagers were being settled in areas outside the empire into poland
and hungary leading to areas of high diversity and ethnic ambiguity the best way to describe the holy
roman empire for the next few centuries is a very loosely united monarchy with many smaller kingdoms
and duchies with varying degrees of power and autonomy the german lawyer martin luther began
a period of change in the catholic church which became known as the protestant reformation making
germany a key focus in the splitting of the church for a second time two kingdoms in the
empire rose to dominate the rest habsburg austria in the south and brandenburg prussia in the north
these two kingdoms became intense rivals fighting wars and annexing large amounts
of territory outside the empire both kingdoms fared very badly during the napoleonic wars and
the holy roman empire was officially abolished by the french empire who came to influence much
of western europe the french revolution began a decades-long rise in nationalism in germany and
many of the people sought to unify into a single nation by 1866 prussia had become the dominant
power after the seven week war against austria and set up the northern germanic confederation
in the following year notably excluding their austrian rivals this became the german empire
just four years later the first modern german nation state germany was propelled to superpower
status and even became involved in overseas colonization tensions were high in europe and many
distrusted the new powerful nation that had just appeared this led to so many alliances in europe
since nobody trusted anybody anymore and each nation had to pick a side in case war broke out
and this preparation for war inevitably became its precursor when the slavic nationalist gavrilo
principe assassinated the air to the austrian throne in 1914 or broke out in europe between
the central powers and the allies germany ended up being a key aggressor in the war and was blamed
for most of the atrocities committed during battle extremely harsh war reparations were
imposed on the state and much of its territory was stripped to the treaty of versailles this crippled
the german economy and angst against the allied powers led to the rise of national socialism with
adolf hitler one of its main advocates rising to power and the resentment held by the common
people hitler became chancellor in the year 1933 instituting radical reforms and imposing
strict national socialist ideals on the nation which became known to the west as nazi germany
the regime was highly anti-semitic and allied itself with fascist italy and imperial japan to
form the axis powers of world war ii after a rapid expansion and then military decline nazi germany
was defeated and divided along the zones of occupation by allied powers western east germany
continued as neighbours for the next few decades and the berlin wall was erected around west berlin
to prevent defectors from the communist east germany by 1990 the communist east collapsed
being reunited with west germany the new german republic is known for its high quality of living
exceptional engineering and for playing a key role in rebuilding europe being one of the key founders
of the european union and the eurozone really thank you very much for watching wow germany
oh my god germans y'all been fighting since day one god lee german's been out here fighting since
day one shall we die but i like the fact that germans have actually you know like they do
everything to better themselves and to change how they are viewed by people and it's really very uh
positive to just look at how germans are today compared to what you'd read in the
history books about germany it's really it's very very very um a beautiful thing to see but
you got to get out of here guys so um if you have any suggestions like i said before
leave those in the comment section down below and um i hope you you uh
enjoy your day and um have fun here at forum yes man we out of here peace