Life in Alsace Lorraine (Short Animated Documentary)

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    What was life like for Frenchmen who lived in Alsace-Lorraine after its annexation? Find out by watching.
    Sources:
    The Economic Consequences of Annexation: Alsace-Lorraine and Imperial Germany (1971) by Dan P. Silverman.
    The German Empire: An Empire? (2008) by Edward Ross Dickinson.
    The Franco-German trade Puzzle: an analysis of the economic consequences of the Franco-Prussian War (2012) by Béatrice Dedinger.

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  • @HistoryMatters
    @HistoryMatters  Před 5 lety +2658

    Hi all, next week's episodes will be: 'Why did Britain abolish slavery?' and 'Why did Romania Join the Axis?'
    Hope you enjoy.

    • @vlad-ns6yt
      @vlad-ns6yt Před 5 lety +33

      Yay Romania!!!

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean Před 5 lety +98

      Why not kill two birds with one stone and make a video about "Why Did Britain Abolish the Axis?"

    • @FrancisTha1st
      @FrancisTha1st Před 5 lety +38

      on the topic of Romania and the Axis i'd love a video about the small Axis powers, their leaders, and what life was like in them. Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, and of course Romania. I think it's one of the least-discussed topics in WWII and it was awesome to see this video being in the same spirit.

    • @_o..o_1871
      @_o..o_1871 Před 5 lety +8

      Yasss Romaniaaaa

    • @catalin90vlad
      @catalin90vlad Před 5 lety +6

      Finally there is something about Romania

  • @thomasturner6980
    @thomasturner6980 Před 5 lety +9127

    Life in Alsace Leraine
    1900: German
    1920: French
    1940: German
    1960: French
    2060: Luxembourgish

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean Před 5 lety +6045

    I knew a women named Lorraine once. She worked at Subway and was in charge of all the sauces. That's the only All-Sauce Lorraine I recognize.

  • @beyo5
    @beyo5 Před 5 lety +4048

    My Great Grandfather was a German living there. He married a French woman. He couldn't speak French and she refused to speak German. Also he refused to fight in another one of the Kaiser's wars, so they packed up and came to America where they both had to learn to speak English.

    • @asifurrahman5014
      @asifurrahman5014 Před 3 lety +736

      @@deprogramm they spoke luxembourgish obviously

    • @merouln700
      @merouln700 Před 3 lety +270

      @@deprogramm (They probably spoke alsacian)

    • @jacobpeters5458
      @jacobpeters5458 Před 3 lety +402

      @@deprogramm either huge baguette or huge wallette

    • @rambard5599
      @rambard5599 Před 3 lety +317

      @@deprogramm Being unable to speak a language isn't the same as being unable to understand it.

    • @Morgoth10101
      @Morgoth10101 Před 2 lety +60

      Which of those wars are you talking about? Germany didnt have any major wars between 1871 and the First World War. There was the Intervention in the Boxer Rebellion and the Namibian war against the local colonial people but those any had very limited participation by German troops.

  • @NoNumbersAfterName
    @NoNumbersAfterName Před 5 lety +6323

    All because a thousand years ago, Charlemagne's grandsons couldn't share.

    • @herrwagnerianer1739
      @herrwagnerianer1739 Před 5 lety +515

      No, all because Louis XIV annexed it against the people's will in 1648. But no one talks about that. :-)

    • @fcalvaresi
      @fcalvaresi Před 5 lety +964

      @@herrwagnerianer1739 people's will did not mean anything in 1648.

    • @mariano98ify
      @mariano98ify Před 5 lety +218

      @@fcalvaresi and still not matter

    • @eingew
      @eingew Před 4 lety +42

      This is why we need federalism.

    • @thelastprussian6491
      @thelastprussian6491 Před 4 lety +60

      Karl der Große

  • @siruranos9172
    @siruranos9172 Před 5 lety +7153

    0/10 Kaiser Wilhelm II is shown using both arms perfectly

    • @kaiserwilhelmll.3634
      @kaiserwilhelmll.3634 Před 5 lety +636

      *I want to know your location*

    • @arfn1973
      @arfn1973 Před 5 lety +222

      @@kaiserwilhelmll.3634 Ja, mein Kaiser!

    • @Perririri
      @Perririri Před 4 lety +16

      Normie

    • @Edmonton-of2ec
      @Edmonton-of2ec Před 4 lety +234

      Sir Uranos What are you talking about, the Kaiser is perfectly healthy!
      *Angry Imperial German Noises*

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas Před 4 lety +14

      Spot on

  • @Grivian
    @Grivian Před 5 lety +1483

    "What are you, French, German?"
    "Ferman"

    • @kaffohrt9858
      @kaffohrt9858 Před 5 lety +93

      "Luxembourgisch"

    • @Grivian
      @Grivian Před 5 lety +147

      @@kaffohrt9858 Nice try Ferman

    • @BeryAb
      @BeryAb Před 4 lety +123

      Grench

    • @Faolan03
      @Faolan03 Před 3 lety +40

      Sherman xD

    • @Not-Ap
      @Not-Ap Před 3 lety +17

      @@BeryAb I like that one the most. 😄

  • @tf2664
    @tf2664 Před 5 lety +2977

    Napoleon III: losses Alssace-Lorraine
    Wilhelm II: losses Alssace-Lorraine
    Hitler: sooon

    • @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113
      @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 Před 5 lety +184

      ...Losses Alssace-Lorraine
      Macron: Hold my wife, I got this... *losses Alssace-Lorraine*

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent Před 5 lety +44

      @@fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113
      Steinmeier: well would du look at zis amazing terri- *loses it*

    • @cv4809
      @cv4809 Před 5 lety +63

      Merkel: *S o o n*

    • @AnAn-td2cn
      @AnAn-td2cn Před 4 lety +5

      @King Victor Emanuele Martin Sonneborn 👹

    • @bullworthstudent9328
      @bullworthstudent9328 Před 4 lety +9

      TF2
      REICHSKOMMISARIAT ELSAß-LOTHRINGEN

  • @BarronVonPeugeot
    @BarronVonPeugeot Před 3 lety +1541

    Fun fact: Strasbourg FC was founded during this period which technically makes it a French team founded in Germany.

    • @Skyline68230
      @Skyline68230 Před 3 lety +155

      Kind of the same fact with the car company Bugatti. French company, founded in German Alsace/Elsass by an Italian guy.

    • @daskleineskrokodil
      @daskleineskrokodil Před 3 lety +32

      It should join the Bundesliga

    • @guilhermeroyama8842
      @guilhermeroyama8842 Před 3 lety +58

      @@daskleineskrokodil Considering how poorly they have been surviving in Ligue 1, they would hardly last a year in the Bundesliga.

    • @daskleineskrokodil
      @daskleineskrokodil Před 3 lety +9

      @@guilhermeroyama8842 yeah , even Hamburg are better

    • @esochibuike8477
      @esochibuike8477 Před 2 lety +2

      @@guilhermeroyama8842 😆😆💔

  • @Aetherguy-cb9bu
    @Aetherguy-cb9bu Před 5 lety +1575

    This comment section is basically the Franco-Prussian war in a nutshell.

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge Před 5 lety +47

      Germany mobilized while france aren't?

    • @arminiuscherusci4410
      @arminiuscherusci4410 Před 5 lety +20

      @@DaDunge and Belgium raped

    • @machtharry
      @machtharry Před 4 lety +37

      Such a stupid name for this war btw. The Franco-German war would be so much more accurate.

    • @davidandremelchorzavala2100
      @davidandremelchorzavala2100 Před 4 lety +16

      machtharry Actually that’s how it’s called in French: Guerre Franco-Allemande (Franco-German War)

    • @machtharry
      @machtharry Před 4 lety +42

      In german as well. Der Deutsch-Französische Krieg aka the german-frech war.
      Seems like its just the british that ignore the other german states.

  • @IAmReallyReallyBob
    @IAmReallyReallyBob Před 3 lety +855

    Hi, I am from Alsace-Lorraine. Parents from Mosel region (Lorraine) and lived my entire life in Alsace.
    Nice vid!
    I would just add that the Germans built amazing cultural buildings such as opera or theatres. Also rebuilt the Haut Koenisbourg castle.
    In the end, alsacians also find themselves as being an exception in France and usually refer the rest of France as “the France of the inside” (France de l’intérieur).

    • @nicolas2419
      @nicolas2419 Před 2 lety +77

      I'm also from Alsace-Lorraine, but from the area of Mulhouse!
      Just a remark, Germans built effectively beautiful buildings in Metz and Strasbourg... but sniff... they replaced the previous buildings destroyed by German bombardement during the sieges of these cities in 1870/1871!
      And Alsace is effectively an exception in France, mainly because this French-German history! :D

    • @Cigmacica
      @Cigmacica Před 2 lety +13

      Bonjour chère compatriote Lorrain

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Před 2 lety +10

      @@nicolas2419 its the first time i have somebody else from mulhouse !

    • @playsgofficial
      @playsgofficial Před 2 lety +11

      Ah Moselleland!

    • @wumbleisthebest3270
      @wumbleisthebest3270 Před 2 lety +6

      I've been to Haut Koenisbourg before, the view is amazing!

  • @masterchinese28
    @masterchinese28 Před 2 lety +447

    As someone who used to live in the region (Strasbourg), I noticed the locals are quick to point out that Alsace and Lorraine are very different one from the other linguistically, culturally and geographically. Alsatian dialect is much closer to German and they have relatively flatland with the Rhine running by. Lorraine is mountainous and isolated by comparison.

    • @nicolas2419
      @nicolas2419 Před 2 lety +24

      Strasbourg is in a flat aera, but Alsace is not totally flat! You forgot too much that a large part of the Vosges Mountains are in Alsace and the southernmost part of Alsace, Sundgau, my homeland, is hilly! :D

    • @masterchinese28
      @masterchinese28 Před 2 lety +4

      @@nicolas2419 That is a very nice part of Alsace!

    • @lawrencedoliveiro9104
      @lawrencedoliveiro9104 Před 2 lety +1

      Alsace also has nicer dogs.

    • @Jimmylenaze
      @Jimmylenaze Před 2 lety +1

      @@lawrencedoliveiro9104 what do u mean?

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 Před rokem +2

      Yes it s exact correct

  • @misterhansen3799
    @misterhansen3799 Před 5 lety +1668

    Could you also do a video about the germans living in Alsace Loraine after ww1?

    • @slanderskovly1029
      @slanderskovly1029 Před 5 lety +48

      Agree!

    • @killianweisedesbois
      @killianweisedesbois Před 5 lety +269

      They had a choice : stay here, learn French and become French or get out.

    • @misterhansen3799
      @misterhansen3799 Před 5 lety +28

      @@killianweisedesbois I know, but it would be intresting if he could go a little bit more in depth

    • @DaDunge
      @DaDunge Před 5 lety +365

      @@killianweisedesbois Diffrence is, the germans did that to 10% of the population the french did it to 90% of the popultion. And also the Germans didn't ban french until 1914 and would likely have permitted it again after the end of the war had they won.

    • @LeDogueDeBroceliande
      @LeDogueDeBroceliande Před 5 lety +51

      @@DaDunge The Republic did that to the entire French population, including the one in Alsace and Lorraine.

  • @nietname2468
    @nietname2468 Před 5 lety +981

    Wait they seriously wanted to give alsace to switzerland?

    • @Grityom
      @Grityom Před 5 lety +168

      Switzerland could have annex a lot more territory in the XIX, like part of savoy. And yes alsace Lorraine also

    • @miliba
      @miliba Před 5 lety +85

      same german dialect

    • @generalaccount6531
      @generalaccount6531 Před 5 lety +247

      Lol for the modern world we live in, where bloody conflicts occur over a tiny bit of disputed land, it is just absolutely absurd to think how monarchs use to give away their land, divide colonies up with random straight lines, or sell their territories like they were nothing

    • @IlGab02
      @IlGab02 Před 5 lety +6

      @@Grityom SAVOIA

    • @joelp7665
      @joelp7665 Před 5 lety +4

      @@IlGab02 Savoie?

  • @Felix0587
    @Felix0587 Před 4 lety +137

    0:55 Well. Literally a well. Nice.

    • @TheUaxington
      @TheUaxington Před 3 lety +6

      Well. Literally a well. Aint that swell

    • @adamkerman475
      @adamkerman475 Před 3 lety +3

      @@TheUaxington Well. Literally a well. Ain’t that swell. What’s that smell?

  • @anttibjorklund1869
    @anttibjorklund1869 Před 5 lety +309

    Spoken: "and"
    On-screen: "und"
    :D

  • @Korschtal
    @Korschtal Před 3 lety +296

    I live close to the German/French border and it always amazes me how this region is now at peace. We're in the C-19 pandemic at the moment and French patients are routinely treated in German hospitals.
    Also, the German dialect is still widely spoken over the border, which surprised me.

    • @rao803
      @rao803 Před 2 lety +37

      Probably because German language is as strong as French so it is hard to erase the way they did with Occitant, breton, etc.

    • @Cigmacica
      @Cigmacica Před 2 lety +6

      As someone who was born in lorraine(in Moselle) I have never seen someone speaking German, they teacher german(as a secondary language obviously) but that all.

    • @Korschtal
      @Korschtal Před 2 lety +20

      @@Cigmacica Possibly because it's further across into France. I tend to cycle in the Colmar/Neuf Brisach region and the dialect is very common there.

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Korschtal its also spoken be a lot of people in mulhouse

    • @sachaferrari4440
      @sachaferrari4440 Před 2 lety +25

      @@Korschtal i was born in Strasbourg and have always lived there but I’ve only rarely met people who speak alsacien and they were all 50 or older and lived in the countryside. Sadly, this dialect is dying notably because we can’t learn it in school because of French centralization.

  • @DrWatson610
    @DrWatson610 Před 2 lety +189

    For more context: The Alsace-Lorraine territory has gradually been annexed by France from the Holy Roman Empire (and also provinces that left the HRE prior) between roughly 1550-1800 and as such the region was (and to some extent still is) home to a sizeable German speaking population.

    • @achillezins6548
      @achillezins6548 Před 2 lety +8

      People don’t speak German to much anymore, maybe as a third language. People their speak the local Germanic dialect the local dialect (alsacien) and french. When I speak with my grandparents in Germans and they switch to alsaciens, it sounds very different and I can’t understand.

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 Před rokem +3

      Oui ne pas oublier qui nous sommes , Elsass frei 🇮🇩

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 Před rokem +1

      @Karl Von Lytovski je suis alsacien 🇮🇩 , ich bin Elsässer 🇮🇩

    • @nocomment6421
      @nocomment6421 Před rokem +4

      The German language is pretty much dead there. Seriously Germany did everything to make the people there to hate being German after the second world war it was settled that Elsass and His inhabits are french.

    • @Nikioko
      @Nikioko Před rokem +3

      Correct. The territory never belonged to France before Louis XIV's conquest.

  • @AncientAccounts
    @AncientAccounts Před 5 lety +580

    *_... I for one welxome our new german overlords - Otto from Schonhausen_* im dead lol

  • @SS5Ghaleon
    @SS5Ghaleon Před 5 lety +316

    Wasnt Bavaria also Catholic? How was life there right after unification?

    • @dabbasw31
      @dabbasw31 Před 5 lety +298

      In short: Bavaria wasn't a Reichsland but a Kingdom. Bavaria kept its own army, its own foreign policy and a level of autonomy, which Alsace-Lorraine did not have.

    • @A_annoying_rodent
      @A_annoying_rodent Před 5 lety +87

      Bavaria was rather poor during that time, in fact the rich bavaria we all know only appeared after ww2, up to 120k people left bavaria for the USA.

    • @yarpen26
      @yarpen26 Před 5 lety +106

      @@A_annoying_rodent Bavaria was pretty much a carbon copy of Austria (I mean the actual modern Austria + South Tirol, not the Austrian half of the K.u.K.). They were both Catholic and rural German-speaking areas that never really industrialized (almost the entirety of Austria's industry lay in Bohemia) but which profited tremendouslyafter WWII from the economic shift from the industry onto the service sector. The same thing happened around the same time with the Republic of Ireland (at the expense of Northern Ireland) or Flanders (at the expense of Walloon).

    • @karlosdeevs
      @karlosdeevs Před 5 lety +3

      wait, could you maybe explain the industrial growth in ireland, because nearly the entire time the republic (south) and the north were seceded (while Waloon & Flanders acted as one)

    • @boahkeinbockmehr
      @boahkeinbockmehr Před 4 lety +38

      Rhineland is also catholic. South and west are catholic, north and east are protestant.

  • @RYII-mm9gu
    @RYII-mm9gu Před 5 lety +379

    My family lived in Alsace, they were German and at the end of the first world war they became French, of the lesser, of the rejection of France. In 1940 when Alsace became German again, they refused to become Nazis, they joined the Centre national de la résistance (CNR) but was captured in Paris in 1943 and then sent to the camp of Mauthausen

    • @darklysm8345
      @darklysm8345 Před 3 lety +33

      traitor family

    • @absentmindedshirokuma8539
      @absentmindedshirokuma8539 Před 3 lety +89

      @@darklysm8345 why would they be traitor when as video pointed out, German state has been discriminating alsace people? Why they demanded to be loyal to a country that didn't even protect them?

    • @jamesmccomb9525
      @jamesmccomb9525 Před 3 lety +19

      @@darklysm8345 They may be traitors, but that isn't always a bad thing.

    • @pinkcheese917
      @pinkcheese917 Před 3 lety +74

      @@absentmindedshirokuma8539 the amount of kaiserboos in this comment section is astounding tbh.

    • @absentmindedshirokuma8539
      @absentmindedshirokuma8539 Před 3 lety +11

      @George Nathanael even Bavaria has to face kulturkampf to some degree even they are autonomy kingdom under Prussia. Alsace who always has been Catholic never get such oppression on their religion even under French Republican. Heck, this very reason was main cause Liechtenstein never wiant to be under Prussia or greater germany.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 5 lety +388

    A vid about the Latvian colony in Africa or the USS Pueblo Incident (when DPRK captured a US spy ship) would be nice

    • @gabed7407
      @gabed7407 Před 5 lety +14

      It was a Polish-Lithuanian colony. It's unfair to call it just Lithuanian

    • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
      @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 5 lety +66

      Gabe D Technically it’s neither, it’s Latvian

    • @gabed7407
      @gabed7407 Před 5 lety +8

      Technically yeah, but the whole livonian region was basically a satellite of the Commonwealth

    • @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113
      @fischlmakesmondstadtgreata7113 Před 5 lety +73

      Gonna love the fact that @@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un knows about the Latvian Colony in Africa, he is just such a well educated man.

    • @EggertPlays
      @EggertPlays Před 5 lety +19

      Do you mean the duchy of Courland? The prince ruling it was not Latvian and it was also a vassal of the PLC.

  • @u4tiwasdead
    @u4tiwasdead Před 2 lety +24

    Some of my ancestors were amongst the 50,000 that chose to leave rather than become German. They owned a small textile factory, and when the Germans took over they relocated it in Normandy, with most of the employees choosing to come with them.

  • @MaGioZal
    @MaGioZal Před 3 lety +319

    This is a proof that loyalties to a state goes beyond of merely “speaking the same language”.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor Před 3 lety +50

      Alsatian isn't even german.
      It's a common misconception.
      As an indigenous alsatian, I can tell you the language, orally, sounds a lot different to the guys on the other side of the river.
      Additionally, alsatian actually predates german.

    • @asifurrahman5014
      @asifurrahman5014 Před 3 lety +2

      Yep

    • @uekiguy5886
      @uekiguy5886 Před 3 lety +7

      @@11Survivor -- At that point in history, did the majority of Alsatians wish to be part of France or Germany? Thank you.

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor Před 3 lety +46

      @@uekiguy5886 They wished to be part of France, as evidenced by the 'elected protestors' they'd elect as their representatives.
      I'm alsatian by birth, by name, and by family history, my great-grandparents were there.

    • @uekiguy5886
      @uekiguy5886 Před 3 lety +8

      @@11Survivor -- I see. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer. Hello from Kansas, U.S.

  • @billybobkingston5604
    @billybobkingston5604 Před 3 lety +38

    love the animation, especially when powerful people are dancing through the daisies, fills me with joy, thank you

  • @maltem.2225
    @maltem.2225 Před 3 lety +128

    I’m German and my great grandmother was born and raised in French Alsace Lorraine. After the war they had to change their surname, because it sounded too French

    • @justinajostin9006
      @justinajostin9006 Před 3 lety +70

      @Funtime Florian I give plenty actually

    • @Botchewlism
      @Botchewlism Před 3 lety +41

      @Funtime Florian we give a pretty good amount of shits.

    • @omniscientcammaleon9477
      @omniscientcammaleon9477 Před 3 lety +15

      @Funtime Florian all of them

    • @jonmurray7658
      @jonmurray7658 Před 2 lety +11

      @Funtime Florian *insert carrying bag of shits* Plenty.

    • @niarkman6999
      @niarkman6999 Před 2 lety +6

      I'm on thé opposite situation. My mother side of thé family comes from Moselle. They were part of thé 50k To run away from thé german annexion. In WW1 and WW2, thé steinmetz part of thé family was always suspected of being spies because of their name. They never changed it though.

  • @romainwalter4593
    @romainwalter4593 Před 4 lety +51

    I live there near strasbourg. Its a beautiful region. My great father had to fight for germany in ww2 on the eastern front near leningrad. 1924-2001

    • @CatnamedMittens
      @CatnamedMittens Před 3 lety +1

      Possibly one of the worst places ever to fight?

    • @romainwalter4593
      @romainwalter4593 Před 3 lety +17

      @@CatnamedMittens Yeah it was pretty horrible my father told me he ate his id paper not to get caught but he ended up in the tambov camp. He learned a bit of russian he was then able to say he was french. When he came back after a long travel home where there was nothing to eat but frozen potatos in the ground he said you could count the rescaped on the finger of your hand. Plus when the other came home they ate a lot after being starved and their stomack exploded. My grand father started slowly by eating a bit of soup to let the stomack adapt.

    • @CatnamedMittens
      @CatnamedMittens Před 3 lety +6

      @@romainwalter4593 smart man

    • @lolexplosions4214
      @lolexplosions4214 Před 7 měsíci

      Deadly sieges World War II.

  • @Nikolaj11
    @Nikolaj11 Před 5 lety +68

    I appreciate the local perspective. Especially the detail "not all germans wanted to be part of germany."
    My family mostly live in Denmark now, but were originally danish-oriented, but low-german speaking Schleswig-Holsteiners. Their opinion was formed from a political standpoint rather than a cultural one; they viewed the Danish monarchy as the more liberal and democratic of the two. The formation of Germany very often boils down to "Prussia vs. Austria," but the political awakening within the HRE is a fascinating topic in off itself.

    • @Nikolaj11
      @Nikolaj11 Před 5 lety +4

      @Hugin If the video and the comment is written in English, then you probably should do so too.

    • @Nikolaj11
      @Nikolaj11 Před 5 lety

      @Hugin Sorry mate, I had German in school but I haven't used it in something like 13 years. You folks are too good at English now for it to be a useful language to remember.
      I'd like to pick it up again some day though :)
      I can still understand some, to some degree. The reason why I ask you to do English wasn't on that part. If I had to guess then I think you said something along the lines of "Liberalism and demokracy was bad for the Germans. Germans remain brothers and belong toegther," or something to that degree. Feel free to correct me!

    • @qwertzuiopu8161
      @qwertzuiopu8161 Před 5 lety +5

      @@Nikolaj11 Your right.
      But I would say the German Empire wasn't as undemocratic as often said.

  • @JamesTilsley1
    @JamesTilsley1 Před 5 lety +214

    “What flag flies in Strasbourg now?”
    “The Tricolor flies there.”
    “Ah, so they won. They had their revanche. That must have been a great triumph for them.”
    “It cost them their life blood,” I said.”
    From the Dream by Winston Churchill.

    • @SpadeRZA
      @SpadeRZA Před 3 lety +8

      Isn't it the blue one with the yellow stars?

    • @colonelkurtz5397
      @colonelkurtz5397 Před 3 lety +20

      fernando jose gonzalez olguin no, Strasbourg.

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 Před 3 lety +7

      @fernando jose gonzalez olguin Stromboliniberg.

    • @davidandremelchorzavala2100
      @davidandremelchorzavala2100 Před 3 lety

      @fernando jose gonzalez olguin that ain’t real

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor Před 3 lety

      @fernando jose gonzalez olguin Fuck Luxembourg, glory to the Republic of Alsace Lorraine.

  • @ericmiller6056
    @ericmiller6056 Před 3 lety +66

    47 years (1871-1918) of Prussian rule achieved what the previous 200 years of French rule could not: it made even the German-speaking Alsatians into enthusiastic citizens of France.

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 Před 2 lety +1

      That's just anglo-saxon bullshit propaganda

    • @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121
      @stadtrepublikmulhausen4121 Před 2 lety +4

      @@karlscher5170 no that's true.

    • @mikaelb.2070
      @mikaelb.2070 Před 2 lety +13

      Actually by the 1900s loyalty to France had diminished completely.

    • @ericmiller6056
      @ericmiller6056 Před 2 lety +7

      @@mikaelb.2070 What's your evidence?

    • @mikaelb.2070
      @mikaelb.2070 Před 2 lety +13

      @@ericmiller6056 Laicism and the spread of socialism had alienated catholics from France, the Dreyfus-affair alienated the jews from France while at the same time A-L was given more autonomy and rights within Germany, plus the rapid economic growth and wealth convinced people to accept Germany.

  • @jameskelly8586
    @jameskelly8586 Před 2 lety +7

    My ancestors were German speaking Catholics who lived in Elsass for generations until the French Revolution in the late 1700s, when the French took over their land and expelled them. They then travelled by ox cart across Europe to the Ukraine where they established a farming commune called Elsass, near to the Black Sea. It's a whole thing--the Black Sea Germans--you can look it up. My grandfather fled from there, circa 1900, when as a young man he was being pressed into the Tsar's army and would likely have died on some battle field against people he had no grievance with. He then came to Canada, to a German speaking farm community on the prairies.

  • @vascogoncalves8542
    @vascogoncalves8542 Před 5 lety +25

    That 'via Belgium' segment cracked me up

  • @septillion.
    @septillion. Před 3 lety +357

    The french when Germany invades Alsace Lorraine:
    "Stop, you're trying to kidnap what I've rightfully stolen!"

    • @MrDonut-ch8dr
      @MrDonut-ch8dr Před 3 lety +54

      @Clear Kim Elsaß Lothringen is german

    • @Greey16
      @Greey16 Před 3 lety +13

      @@MrDonut-ch8dr Elsass is Elsass, not german, not french, Elsass

    • @Faolan03
      @Faolan03 Před 3 lety +44

      @Clear Kim why should it? Alsace lorraine was german speaking since the end of the roman empire and the french conquered it in 1700 when the HRE was weak and couldn't defend it.

    • @ImEazyE
      @ImEazyE Před 3 lety +5

      Elsass Frei

    • @Faolan03
      @Faolan03 Před 3 lety +29

      @Clear Kim at what point did the world stay like it was?
      Literally never in History

  • @victorviereck4117
    @victorviereck4117 Před 5 lety +105

    History matters: The channel that made "Sky ship hell" a legit name.
    I am probably gonna name my kid that.

  • @lindsayhengehold5341
    @lindsayhengehold5341 Před rokem +5

    My Family is of German origin but was from this region of France pre unification and moved to America in the mid 19th century.

  • @Jess-D
    @Jess-D Před 4 lety +20

    My family immigrated to the USA from Pfalsbourg and Strasbourg before WW2,and identified as Protestant Germans. They lived in the area for centuries under French and German rule .My Great Grandparents missed their homeland so much,they had Natives of Alsace Lorraine on their headstones . I always found it strange that they used the French spelling . My theory is that the American who made the headstone spellled it the French. way ... I’m not trying to start the age old debate,but think it is unusual. I still have family in Strasbourg . As a kid i thought it was strange that I have
    ancestors with French first names such as Jaques and our German surnames . Luckily I have a cousin in Strasbourg who is a great family historian and translated records to English from French and German .

    • @someguy7723
      @someguy7723 Před rokem +2

      Could have been the funeral firm had a anti-german dude working that night or somthing like that

    • @vincentvincenzowehrung5830
      @vincentvincenzowehrung5830 Před rokem +2

      great story, never forget the story of our ancestors there is a lot of sadness and strength , Elsass 🇮🇩

  • @arthurbordet8754
    @arthurbordet8754 Před 5 lety +121

    When people say "Alsace-Lorraine" instead of "Alsace-moselle"

    • @Hugo-cn9no
      @Hugo-cn9no Před 4 lety +15

      It's not Alsace-moselle too because Belfort was french in 1871

    • @soderfjarden3197
      @soderfjarden3197 Před 4 lety +11

      IT'S ELSASS LÖTHRINGEN DU SCHWIEN HUND 😎

    • @K2ELP
      @K2ELP Před 4 lety +23

      @@soderfjarden3197 Actually its "Elsaß-Lothringen", with an Eszett and no Ö

    • @saupiquet7516
      @saupiquet7516 Před 3 lety +13

      @@soderfjarden3197 Alsace-Loraine for you prussiaboo

    • @soderfjarden3197
      @soderfjarden3197 Před 3 lety

      ELSASS LOTHRINGEN FOR YOU DU SCHWEIN HUND 😎

  • @juliaisafilmbuff123
    @juliaisafilmbuff123 Před 3 lety +18

    One thing this cartoon doesn't mention is the large amount of industrialization which took place in the Moselle (German Lorraine) region during this time. The Moselle was full of natural resources, namely iron ore, which was a significant reason as to why Germany wanted to control the region so badly. It was right after annexation when Berlin began pouring tons of money into the Lorraine mining and steel industries, not only to create more output but to win over the local population (states don't just use the stick, sometimes they use the carrot). I've lived in this exact region before and know the local history.

  • @johnforsyth7987
    @johnforsyth7987 Před rokem +2

    I love your characters holding the sign saying "Soon."

  • @jwasserman762
    @jwasserman762 Před 6 měsíci +2

    The parking lot between the French and German language houses at my uni was designated "Alsace-Lorraine."

  • @tobiwan001
    @tobiwan001 Před 2 lety +77

    Sorry, but Franco-German relations were not permanently bad starting with 1871. The Napoleonic wars that completely destroyed the German states were not popular in Germany either. It's safe to say that it has had a long history.

    • @juwebles4352
      @juwebles4352 Před 2 lety +4

      Not to even mention the division between west and east Francia

    • @jacobinfier9407
      @jacobinfier9407 Před rokem +4

      Most of germans before 1812 liked France very well because we brought political progress.
      And few random guy not really famous like Hegel, Kant or Goethe were all huge fans of Napoleon.

    • @Antarctide
      @Antarctide Před rokem +1

      @@jacobinfier9407 We all saw and keep seeing what that "progress" was truly for and it's anything but glorious...

    • @camm8642
      @camm8642 Před rokem +1

      @@jacobinfier9407 nah bismark and the like held resement over french domination over german lands int he Napoleonic age

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 Před 3 měsíci +1

      But there were individual German states that were pro-French, especially the south. This ended with the unification of Germany, where Prussia now set foreign policy.

  • @NewsHistorian
    @NewsHistorian Před 4 lety +13

    These videos are a wonderful intermediate primer on historical events with the cute cartoon figures and sardonic humor.

  • @cormacsmithy3975
    @cormacsmithy3975 Před 5 lety +32

    I love how you end every video as though it was a happy ending forever after and then show hitler or napoleon. A nice pinch of foreshadowing.

  • @f_f_f_8142
    @f_f_f_8142 Před 5 lety +94

    Next: Life in the Saar Region (Short Animated Documentary)

  • @makaan1932
    @makaan1932 Před 5 lety +325

    Elsaß-Lothringen is written without an Ö. Is that a joke?

    • @TheChosenFailure
      @TheChosenFailure Před 5 lety +15

      apparently it isn't written with an ö. it's Alsaß-Lotharingen and not Alsaß-Lötharingen

    • @sganarellelevalet7479
      @sganarellelevalet7479 Před 5 lety +39

      Anyway you wrote the wrong orthograph too, it's Alsace Lorraine

    • @TheChosenFailure
      @TheChosenFailure Před 5 lety +57

      @@sganarellelevalet7479 we are talking about the German version of it aren't we? so raus.

    • @makaan1932
      @makaan1932 Před 5 lety +18

      @@TheChosenFailure german. Boy. Its german and it is correct the way I spell it cause I'm German.

    • @arminiuscherusci4410
      @arminiuscherusci4410 Před 5 lety +39

      @@TheChosenFailure
      In german: Elsaß-Lothringen
      In french: Alsace-Lorraine
      From a native german :)

  • @gabed7407
    @gabed7407 Před 5 lety +266

    Can you make the video on the Polish-Lithuanian Commanwealth like you said you were before? Love your vids by the way.

    • @sopmodo8122
      @sopmodo8122 Před 5 lety +3

      What place of poland are you from?

    • @gabed7407
      @gabed7407 Před 5 lety +5

      @@sopmodo8122 Białystok area, by Sokółka

    • @Ponanoix
      @Ponanoix Před 5 lety +7

      @@sopmodo8122 Wrocław

    • @sopmodo8122
      @sopmodo8122 Před 5 lety +8

      @@Ponanoix Breslau*

    • @Ponanoix
      @Ponanoix Před 5 lety +12

      @Thomas Meyer Wrocław**

  • @EvanSeal
    @EvanSeal Před 5 lety +1

    Been really enjoying these styles of videos recently!

  • @adrianred236
    @adrianred236 Před 2 lety +1

    I love how History Matters clears up things in minutes that I've wondered about for years.

  • @asierescobal1248
    @asierescobal1248 Před 5 lety +584

    Alsace-Lorraine: We're french again
    Adolf: Hold my Munich beer
    245 likes?! WOW thank you so much!

    • @asierescobal1248
      @asierescobal1248 Před 5 lety +3

      @@pancakemacbuttery9142 Hitler, I apllied a bit of autocensorship, just in case

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 Před 5 lety +4

      @@pancakemacbuttery9142 Really man?

    • @garmenlin5990
      @garmenlin5990 Před 5 lety +10

      Charles de Gaulle: Hold my wine!

    • @barney6888
      @barney6888 Před 5 lety +3

      Winston Churchill: Let go of my whiskey!

    • @karlosdeevs
      @karlosdeevs Před 5 lety +1

      I thought Bulldog was more a brandy-type

  • @billymartin2220
    @billymartin2220 Před 5 lety +12

    I love your quick image-word paring. It keeps me laughing and learning

  • @SouthpawZer0
    @SouthpawZer0 Před 5 lety +15

    My Great-Great-Grandfather lived in Alsace-Lorraine prior to WWI. He was an engineer in the textile industry.

  • @brettsh.2545
    @brettsh.2545 Před 3 lety +1

    One of your funniest videos I've seen. Nice work.

  • @mehmetkaan8255
    @mehmetkaan8255 Před 4 lety +7

    I love the "Soon" look

  • @Daniel-kq4bx
    @Daniel-kq4bx Před 5 lety +35

    My Grand Grandpa fought together with solidiers from Alsace Lorraine but he said they werent less brave then others. However he said the Austrians and Chechz behaved shit and snitched often in The POW Camps

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor Před 3 lety

      Having a Gestapo officer personally threaten your family can be quite the motivator...

    • @J-IFWBR
      @J-IFWBR Před 3 lety +3

      ​@@11Survivor Austrians and chechz were fighting alongside the germans i think, not against them? Just like the Rumanians and Fins did too. I think (in case i remember it wrong I AM RLY SRY) xd.
      So it would rather have been a KGB or redarmy officer threatening them inside a POW Camp. Also their families were not with them there.
      Edit:wait are we talking first or second WW here?

    • @11Survivor
      @11Survivor Před 3 lety

      @@J-IFWBR Second WW
      In Alsace, they threatened deportation for the families of those who refused to present themselves for conscription

    • @hubertsavio9356
      @hubertsavio9356 Před 3 lety +1

      Not true, my tip grand father got several medals!!!

    • @Daniel-kq4bx
      @Daniel-kq4bx Před 3 lety

      @@hubertsavio9356 Im not trying to generalize, these are heavily subjective Impressions. However it seems logical that the Czechs were leaning more to that, considering they were subjugated under Habsburg Rule

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Před rokem

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!!

  • @luisdergroe8944
    @luisdergroe8944 Před 5 lety +172

    Just a little mistake I noticed: Elsass Lothringen is written with a "o" and not a "ö". On the other hand you pronounced the ö quite nice, a thing most people don't, thinking these two letters are interchangeable.
    Regardless I think this video covers a less known topic very well.

    • @bjarkel.993
      @bjarkel.993 Před 5 lety +16

      Elsaß-Lothringen was the öld German spelling. Nöw yöu just göt the new Anglö spelling: Elsass-Löthringen. Lol

    • @John_Jim
      @John_Jim Před 5 lety +13

      Löl

    • @jpc7118
      @jpc7118 Před 2 lety +7

      @@John_Jim Lmaö

    • @batonnetdecannelle
      @batonnetdecannelle Před rokem

      Could it possibly add a certain "gothic" charm, putting 'Umlaut'-dots where they don't belong?
      Metal bands: YES!

    • @huaba8804
      @huaba8804 Před rokem

      @@batonnetdecannelle ë

  • @PhilWood82
    @PhilWood82 Před 5 lety +50

    Switzerland: Oh no, you're not drawing me into this mess!

    • @reschi56
      @reschi56 Před 5 lety +9

      Giving Elsass to Switzerland would've probably been the best decision as the people in Elsass spoke the same dialect as people in Switzerland.

    • @guardiadecivil6777
      @guardiadecivil6777 Před 4 lety +2

      @@reschi56 imagine ww1 and ww2 then when theres a switzerland is cucking you out of the country you're attacking

    • @11thstalley96
      @11thstalley96 Před 4 lety

      Reschi I can confirm. My family emigrated from Thurgau and Appenzell to Elsass after the Thirty Years War. I never met my great grandparents who emigrated to the US after the Franco Prussian War, but my Dad said that the German they spoke was very different from the German spoken in their neighborhood in St. Louis.

    • @thedwightguy
      @thedwightguy Před 3 lety +2

      @@reschi56 Elsass would have one big time, with the view of current history. But there are many dialects of German in Switzerland. My buddy speaks German but it sounds like Italian.

    • @joueurspectateur
      @joueurspectateur Před 3 lety

      @@reschi56 you do realize that if any country was given Alsace it would have most likely went to war with France. So if they wanted to stay neutral, they would have refused the offer.

  • @Argacyan
    @Argacyan Před 5 lety +43

    and after ww1 when Alsace Lorraine was annexed by France they occupied it militarily and cleansed it from the german dialect, german culture and german history up until fairly recently when people were allowed to use the german alsacian dialect again. The dialect is still having a hard time as a result of decades long repression.

    • @guguss3804
      @guguss3804 Před 5 lety +18

      Argacyan German teaching was allowed again in 1952, but Yeah « decades of oppression »

    • @LessnoIVe
      @LessnoIVe Před 5 lety +12

      the germans were the ones who banned alsatian

    • @r.v.b.4153
      @r.v.b.4153 Před 5 lety +1

      @@LessnoIVe
      How did they ban Alsatian?

    • @Kookanoodles
      @Kookanoodles Před 4 lety +17

      ​@@r.v.b.4153 Forcing everyone to speak Hochdeutsch instead of Alsatian dialect, I imagine.

    • @boahkeinbockmehr
      @boahkeinbockmehr Před 4 lety +8

      @@kartoffelmensch519 he is right you know. It all started under the nazis and their school reform. They wanted to get rid of dialects to make people forget that we were actually a federation of hundreds of different people and make us become one people instead. So no more bavarians, ripuarians and saxons, but only germans. You also find it everywhere in the propaganda of the time. (Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer - one people, one empire, one leader) sadly that trend was continued after the war and even the generation of my father still got the dialect literally beaten out of them in school in the 70s and 80s. Even in my generation (1992) we were still shunned for even using mundart, so high german with a strong accent, not to speak of dialect, as most of us never learned to speak it to begin with.

  • @danielhale1
    @danielhale1 Před 3 lety +1

    Sadly moping through the flower field was a fantastic subversion of your own running joke!
    Keep it coming, HistoryMatters! You're the best!

  • @MRMK24
    @MRMK24 Před 3 lety +1

    I absolutely adore the animations 💙😂

  • @hannofranz7973
    @hannofranz7973 Před rokem +5

    The local dialect in Lorraine/Lothringen is also a Germanic dialect. It belongs to the model-franconian dialects and is by no means further away from German dialects than Alsatian. Alsatian belongs to the Alemannic dialect group whereas Lorraine to the Franconian. That's the main difference. Even though, there aren't that many speakers. Both have been widely wiped out by French.

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 Před 3 měsíci

      Most of Lorraine didn't speak a Germanic dialect, only the department of Moselle did (and even then, the city of Metz did not)..

  • @l.u.i.s._.8452
    @l.u.i.s._.8452 Před 3 lety +12

    French men: bonjour🙂
    German soldier: Also hast du den Tod gewählt🔫😑

  • @sergioperez5730
    @sergioperez5730 Před 3 lety

    I love al your videos!! It’s so awesome!

  • @Armorius2199
    @Armorius2199 Před 5 lety

    Excellent as always.

  • @erick64bosck3
    @erick64bosck3 Před 4 lety +27

    I'm French and my granmother was from Alsace with a german name,but she was proud to be french

  • @richardthomas5362
    @richardthomas5362 Před 11 měsíci +4

    So, Germany annexed an area which was 90% German speaking and the Kaisers, mostly Wilhelm II, managed to screw that up.

    • @edmerc92
      @edmerc92 Před 3 měsíci

      They spoke Alsatian, which is a Germanic language but not quite the same.

    • @matthiasbehrendt6112
      @matthiasbehrendt6112 Před 2 měsíci

      ​​@@edmerc92It's a German dialect. The emergence of standard German as an everyday language happened primarly after the invention of mass media.
      Btw. that's what is true for almost every standard language.

  • @liennitram9291
    @liennitram9291 Před 8 měsíci +1

    My 3X great grandparents immigrated from Alsace in 1872. There name was Lueckel and they ended up in Tell City / Cannelton Indiana. I've always wondered what was their reason to pack up and move half way across the planet to rural Indiana. Thank you for sharing this.

  • @Lcgmatheus
    @Lcgmatheus Před 5 lety +7

    i love those "soon" plates

  • @MrBabalouser
    @MrBabalouser Před 4 lety +6

    I got to visit both Strasbourg and Metz and I have to say I really enjoyed this.

  • @Sams-li8tj
    @Sams-li8tj Před 4 lety +72

    "The issue is settled forever."
    For now.

    • @lucienaras2165
      @lucienaras2165 Před 3 lety +6

      Next time France take rhenanie too, as it should be.

    • @colonelkurtz5397
      @colonelkurtz5397 Před 3 lety +9

      Sams Alsace Lorraine don’t want to be german and Germany don’t have the power to take it.

    • @Sams-li8tj
      @Sams-li8tj Před 3 lety

      @@colonelkurtz5397 It's just a joke bro. And moreover, nothing is set in stone.

    • @colonelkurtz5397
      @colonelkurtz5397 Před 3 lety +8

      Sams I know, but after seeing like 100 000 comments of kaiserboo, it starts to be annoying (i live in alsace lorraine) and anyway, Germany and France are good friends, and no one in Europe want to start another war..

    • @Sams-li8tj
      @Sams-li8tj Před 3 lety

      @@colonelkurtz5397 I don't know what kaiserboo is and I won't even ask since it sounds like bad news. Here's to continued peace in Europe, tschüss!

  • @christophers_verified
    @christophers_verified Před 3 lety +10

    2:31 "...the region was returned to France and the issue over who owned it was totally settled for ever" 😂🤣😅

  • @Classical.Conservative
    @Classical.Conservative Před 5 lety +1

    Glorious video! I love this because it gives you a ton of fascinating history in such a short amount of time so that makes it convenient with my schedule.

  • @darrenbutler9819
    @darrenbutler9819 Před 4 lety +15

    I'm swiss and can you imagine how interesting it'd be if the Kaiser said yes.

  • @sachin2744
    @sachin2744 Před 4 lety +3

    I had a chapter in English class in high school called "The last lesson". The story revolved around this annexation.

  • @MrAlsachti
    @MrAlsachti Před rokem +2

    At some point, Switzerland wanted to integrate Mulhouse for strategic reasons. But finally, Swiss were satisfied with the location of the new border agreed by France and Germany. The integration of Mulhouse was no longer needed.

  • @jadenparise4373
    @jadenparise4373 Před 5 lety

    Best video so far!

  • @MarkJaroski
    @MarkJaroski Před rokem +3

    FYI it's pronounced al-zass, and the language spoken there is one of the alemanche dialects, more similar to Swiss German than to German.

  • @quasar4780
    @quasar4780 Před 5 lety +16

    Nice video. Do you plan on talking about either the Algerian War, the Sino-French War or the Paris Commune ?

  • @jimmyjazz7992
    @jimmyjazz7992 Před 3 lety

    The well gag was so fast it took me a few to process it and finally sensibly chuckle at it

  • @katequinn8195
    @katequinn8195 Před 8 měsíci +2

    My great grandfather was born there, I know his father and brother lived with him. He was born around 1835, but by about 1870, he'd married a woman in Canada. He was German (very German first and last name, but I read somewhere that he said that he was French. Some of this is from free ancestor information sites online, so I don't know if he really thought himself French. But moving from Alsace to Canada might mean that he wanted to stay French. The woman he married had the last name Nichols, I believe she was German, also. I had wanted to live there for years, then finding that he was born there, maybe I'm meant to go back?

  • @crkcrk702
    @crkcrk702 Před 3 lety +29

    Germany and France : have best relationship
    History Matters : oh yes ? We will see that in the comments after my video 😎

  • @theMcWOPPER
    @theMcWOPPER Před 4 lety +24

    "Totally settled forever " 🤣🤣🤣

  • @rodrigodepierola
    @rodrigodepierola Před 3 lety

    Great video. I'm going to use it in class.

  • @hungariancountryball2928

    Amazing!

  • @cryogenical_
    @cryogenical_ Před 5 lety +6

    The alsace area is amazing to visit, definitely worth a couple of days if you're ever close by!

  • @hubby00n6
    @hubby00n6 Před 4 lety +13

    You forgot that in 1911 Elsass-Lothringen won their own constitution and were considered as a german land! This was a major concession from the germans and Elsass-Lothringen had years ahead with the social security and several other laws. So much better than in France

    • @gryfalis4932
      @gryfalis4932 Před 3 lety +6

      Yeah that was so much better they wholeheartedly abandonned their loyalty to France and became germans with no resistance or altercation whatsoever. Truly Germany was the best choice for the region. /s

    • @hubby00n6
      @hubby00n6 Před 2 lety +1

      @@gryfalis4932 indeed all my great-grandfathers had German uniform, won EK 2nd class medals and fought at the French front. One of them was close to expulsion in 1919, as German speaking only

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 Před 2 lety +4

      @@gryfalis4932 So my salty frenchman, when the loyalty for France was so big, why didn't France dared to make a democratic referendum and settle the issue in a civilised way?

    • @Papepatine
      @Papepatine Před rokem

      ​@@karlscher5170 Why would they ? There was no independentist movement. If Germany did one tho, they would have chosen France

    • @karlscher5170
      @karlscher5170 Před rokem

      @@Papepatine sounds childish

  • @michaelr3583
    @michaelr3583 Před 2 lety

    I love that "totally settled forever" with a strange little mustached guy saying soon😅

  • @paulcowlishaw
    @paulcowlishaw Před 2 lety

    Sweet video History Matters.

  • @alilshotofrhum
    @alilshotofrhum Před 2 lety +7

    Well, to be more accurate, the German empire didn't annex Alsace-Lorraine because that doesn't make any sense at all.
    In reality, they annexed Alsace, almost all of Moselle and a bit of Meurthe et Moselle (Moselle and Meurthe et Moselle are two of the four departements of the Lorraine region). The Moselle and Meurthe and Moselle aren't the entire Lorraine region, i know it because i live there. I don't why this mistake perpetuates but it's a huge geographical error.

  • @Narwaro
    @Narwaro Před 3 lety +6

    My great-grandma changed nationality four times in her lifetime despite never going anywhere: Deutsches Reich until 1921, independent Saargebiet 1921-1935, Deutsches Reich again 1935-1947, independent Saarland 1947-1957, and German Federal Republic until her death.

    • @Ponanoix
      @Ponanoix Před rokem

      Why did you call modern Germany by its english name, but earlier states by their german name

  • @lemmenkainen
    @lemmenkainen Před 2 lety

    Thanks for this video, my family largely immigrated from the area in 1888 though we don't have reliable information on why most of the extended family up and moved. This might explain a good bit of it.

  • @aaronmarks9366
    @aaronmarks9366 Před 5 lety +15

    Can you propose some Americas topics for future videos? Some ideas:
    - the Red River Rebellion and Northwest Rebellion in Canada
    - the English colonization of the Carolinas
    - the North American theaters of the War of the Spanish Succession or the War of the Austrian Succession
    - the First Mexican Empire under Agustín de Iturbide
    - the joining and breakup of Central America after independence from Spain
    - the War of the Triple Alliance, the bloodiest conflict in South American history

    • @Xindet
      @Xindet Před 5 lety +3

      American history is for the Most part Not important AT all sry

    • @aaronmarks9366
      @aaronmarks9366 Před 5 lety +1

      @@Xindet lmao

    • @Toast0808
      @Toast0808 Před 4 lety

      Make your own

    • @joaov_ds
      @joaov_ds Před 4 lety +4

      Would be awesome. A shame that eurocentric people think they're the only ones in the world who deserve some praise...

    • @josesandoval1440
      @josesandoval1440 Před 2 lety

      @@Xindet American history is the only reason you're speaking English instead of German

  • @nickmiesch4845
    @nickmiesch4845 Před rokem +3

    My great grandparents came from Mulhouse (Mülhausen) in the early 1900’s. My grandpa told me that they generally considered themselves as Germans and we consider ourselves a family of German immigrants. But on our records they put down their nationalities as ‘Alsatian’ all the way up to the 1960’s. It’s almost as if they didn’t even consider themselves Germans or French at all. I could tell they had a lot of love and pride for Alsace and I can relate too for being proud of being from the southern United States. I hope I get to visit this region soon and Europe.

  • @pinkcrewmate8103
    @pinkcrewmate8103 Před 5 lety +7

    Hey thanks for this video and the Franco Prussian war video both of these are helping me HUGELY on my final history project

  • @Numba003
    @Numba003 Před 3 lety +1

    The not-skipping through flowers at 1:11 is great lol.
    Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

  • @tomasbeltran04050
    @tomasbeltran04050 Před 3 lety

    I got surprised for the cotton fact, then you got me chuckling to the "und"

  • @FoxTrotteur
    @FoxTrotteur Před 3 lety +3

    One of My Great-Great grandfather (3 out of 8 were Alsacians) was a "Malgré-nous". That means "Against-us". It was the name that alsacians gave to those of them who were enrolled against their will in the Deutsches Heer. The two others hid for years in a barn or in a cellar to avoid being enrolled in the German army.

  • @bazzatheblue
    @bazzatheblue Před 4 lety +22

    Wasnt the last german veteran of ww1 actually a Elsasser,his name was Karl something,when Elsass became Alsace again he changed his name to Charles and i think he joined the French army in ww2 Bizarre times.

  • @nik65stgt60
    @nik65stgt60 Před 10 měsíci

    Fascinating!

  • @py8554
    @py8554 Před 11 měsíci +2

    Impact to life for Frenchmen in the Alsace Lorraine after annexation by Germany? The first thing that came to my mind is THE LAST LESSON by Alphonse Daudet. I learned about this story when I was in junior high and made a deep impression on me. It fascinated me so much that I went on to learn about the Franco-Prussian War and the unique history of the Alsace Lorraine region.