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one reacts today we're going to be checking out the german flak why did it change so what
happened to the old german flag that's the title of the video we're going to be checking out today
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sit back relax and enjoy this with me it's the german flag and i have a question
are germans mount in dutch or are the dutch swamp germans let me know in the comments
below but actually that's not what i wanted to ask what i wanted to ask was why did the german flag
change from the one on the left to the one on the right because if you look at old photos of germany
like this one from the first world war you can see clearly that it's a black white and red tri-color
but today it's clearly black red and yellow in a tri-color or gold so why did this change occur
well in this video let's find out for a lot of its history the german states were in fact
small princedoms and states inside the holy roman empire until around 1806 when the french came and
did what they always do and ruined everything for everyone one of the prussian units to fight
against napoleon was the lutzo khaikour and these men came from all over germany and their uniforms
featured black gold and red so this is the first real occasion where we start to see that lots of
people around germany because so many men from all over the country or the states at that time
it wasn't yet a unified country we're serving in this call that these colors the black red and gold
were seen throughout germany by a lot of people and in 1816 at the end of the congress of vienna
it was decided that all the remaining german states would be added into a confederation
of states into the north german confederation in the north and so this flag came about in 1815 at
yena which is in the south of germany and it was created by the members of the lutsu of kaikoura
who came together and founded a fraternity now because so many of these men came from so many
different areas in what would become germany there was a real sense of a national unionist movement
starting to emerge among these fraternity members they and others like them started to agitate for
a unified german state and as we can see from this image of the hambach festival in 1832 we
can see that they're using another tri-color with the gold red and black which is starting to look
more like the modern german flag at this festival well this image from 1848 where social movements
throughout europe rose up in great rebellions in different countries we can see that this is one of
the first times that we see the black red and gold being used as a symbol for a unified german state
which at this time did not yet exist this was used by the frankfurt parliament and was put forward as
what would they hoped would be a national flag for all german peoples but of course this fell
apart and it returned to the status quo of the two largest states of prussia in the north and
austria in the south although this really came to a head in 1866 with the austro-prussian wall
now many of the southern german states supported the austrians and they actually used the gold red
and gold gold red and gold the black red and gold to identify themselves and ally with the austrians
but of course it was the prussians who took the victory in the austro-prussian war so we
should now shift focus and look at the origin of the other dutch flag dutch flag german flag
and look at prussia so in prussia of course we have this flag with the imperial eagle on it
with the black white and black being the formation of the tri-color there
however we also have the unification of prussia with several northern german states and a very
powerful force in northern germany for a long time was the hanseatic league the hanza and so they
used the colour of the hanza which was white and red which you can see in flags like that
of lubeck and brim for example and they combined these two to create the flag of the german empire
which of course is the black white and red tri-colour this remained in use until 1918
when the germans were defeated in the first world war and had to sign the duty of versailles
which greatly destroyed the german empire and its size and would lead to the creation of the
weimar republic and in 1919 to great controversy they decided to change the official flag from the
red white black to the black red and gold that had previously been used by the frankfurt government
as the weimar constitution borrowed heavily from the frankfurt constitution which been back in
1848. many in germany opposed the change and continued to use the black white and red which
they saw as the true flag of germany especially those on the right like the political parties
of the dnvp and later also sometimes by the nsdap i know it's been a long time since i talked about
weimar political parties now in 1933 of course this is the date that hitler became the chancellor
and so changes were made rapidly to the national flag which many on the right as i've already said
did not see as being a true flag of germany but rather one that was imposed by the puppet
government that came after the fall of the german empire and so he reinstated the of course the nazi
party's flag with the swastika but also the imperial flag which was in place until 1935
when only the nazi party flag was able to be used in germany as a national flag of course 1945 is
the end of the second world war and with it came new flag changes germany was partitioned between
those on the west in favor of the more capitalism and with the americans and the allies whereas
the areas in the east that had been taken by the soviets were aligned to the ussr and to communism
and so we see two different flags appearing again using the black red and gold but with different
emblems one reflecting the bundesliga public and the other reflecting its ties to socialism of
course 1989 is the fall of the berlin wall and the reunification of germany when of course they would
opt for just the plain old black red and gold it's almost like i planned that um of the old german
flag and that's kind of the story of the german flag and why they use the different ones so i hope
this has been an interesting video it's something that not too many people know the entire story of
the german flag and the inspiration behind them both but it is an interesting story nonetheless
so thank you very much for watching i do hope it's been interesting let me know what other
kind of flaggy topics you'd like me to cover because a lot of people seem interested in
the flag videos that i've been posting so i feel like i'll just keep posting them until people stop
it's really interesting i'm not gonna lie i actually that was very interesting what uh
i learned just now with the flight i never knew that but either ways man we gonna be
about it here man like and subscribe and if you have anything about germany that i could
find out that i he didn't mention in this video leave those in the comment section down below
i really would appreciate it either ways guys we ought to hear manholes the next time peace