How did the World React to the Annexation of Austria?
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- When a country disappears overnight, it often provokes a reaction. So when this happened to Austria in 1938 and it was gobbled up by Germany, how did the world react? To find out watch this short and simple animated history documentary.
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Germany: * anexes Austria *
*Mexico has never seen such bullshit before*
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I dont get it
@@claytong2069 The US took a *lotta* land from Mexico back in the day.
Oh
@@WhompingWalrus they should have done better in 1846 then
Germany: *commits Anschluss*
Mexico: *_A B S O L U T E L Y B A R B A R I C_*
*_Q U É B A R B A R I D A D_*
GraySkitz fan check
@Cannie UwU no
we arent too fond of germans
"Poland's government felt they were safe"
Fun fact: no
Poor katyns lmao
Actually poland wanted to arm itself to defend itself in case of war but britain forbid it
One year later they came down with a case of the deads
Poland is never safe
More years later, poland had no neighbours other than germany, in fact, it was germany
Germany: *annexes Austria*
Mexico: "and I took that personally"
I was expecting Mexico to invade Russia after the Crimea annexation in 2014.
They shot their Austrian emperor. Maybee they felt sorry about this.
"Esto es personal".
@@scratchy996 that'd be ww3. US might back them
@@scratchy996 Mexico has olways bakd,and actualy created the filosofy of the self determination of the people, since the anexation of crimea was by vote Mexico said nothing, because it was democratic.
"Poland's Government felt.that Germany wasn't a threat to Poland."
Mistakes were made.
so it turns out Poland was right to fear its former subjugators and neighbors, Germany and Russia.
It seems to be common propaganda that Poland was an irrational player trying to unite other former slaves to said neighbors for defense.
Why is the context and narrative around Polish foreign policy (pre-war) almost never painted as this "do or die" attitude to foreign policy because thats exactly what was on the table for them--ya know, because of how history actually went?
queue the other Nazi sewn propaganda that Poles were so eager to ship out Jews--no other nation in the world had as much academic and institutional print in Hebrew as did Poland during this time, ya know, for actual historical context.
@@CBielski87 1+1=2
Non agression pacts are obviously unbreakable, gotta prepare that peace in our time speech
Poland: EVERYTHIMG IS FINE WE’RE FRIENDS WITH THE GUY ANNEXING EVERYBODY OUT HERE
Also Poland: what could go wrong?
It's imporant to note, that before April 1939 Polish-German relationship looked pretty OK (like they were two some form of good friends), so Poland could belive, that Germany won't do anything to it (and beside: Germany had very clear statement about USSR, which was in ,,cold war" with Poland at that time)
When Switzerland raises it's neutrality level you know shit's serious.
Xd
its*
"Nüt nomol!"
@@nqh4393 no it's possessive
"They've gone to 51% grey"
Germany: *Eats Austria*
Mexico: "WHOMST HAS AWAKENED THE ANCIENT ONE?"
Mexico actually considered the option of unleashing Kathalcutlia (an ancient aztec god of war, death and pesilence removed from historical records) against Germany.
@@arx3516 why didn't they tho? too cosly i take it
@@arx3516 isn't the god of war and death mictlantecutli?
@@ricardoduarte8709 no, it's a different deity, people often confuse them, just be sure not to mustake one for the other when you summon one of them.
@@arx3516 Wow
Germany: **annexes austria**
UK: Meh
France: Meh
USA: meh
Mexico: *"H O W D A R E Y O U, T H A T A C T O F V I O L E N C E W A S A B S O L U T E L Y B A R B A R I C"*
Switzerland: *W H O - E V E R - A N N E X E D - A U S T R I A - S H A L L - B E - S C R E A M E D - Y O U - P O W E R - H U N G R Y - G E R M A N S*
Well Mexico probably knew what was coming
“ *R E E E E E* ”
@@Josephi_KrakowskiBullshit, nobody knew what was coming. The warmonger Churchill wasn't in power yet and despite all of Britain's domineering and meddling on the continent, Germany was content with unifying her lands and people and simply taking her role as continental primary diplomatically.
@@noimnotnice warmongering?
Hitler: I’ll take Austria
Mexico: Hmm taste like disrespect
Hmm sabe a falta de respeto
@Egg T Llora tristemente en español
F
XDXDXD
El dolor :'v
Germany: *anschluss*
Mexico: and I took that personally
Germany: and i took that nation
well mexico was once ruled by the brother of the austrian emperor so
@@christian9125abd But they executed him.
@@jic1 but mexico still liked austria more than germany
Germany: anschluss
US: gesundheit!
Now I want to see an Alternate History where The USSR backs Mexico against Germany.
Yes
@@adrianlugo80 He made a video about it?
@@Orb1tal_S3 no
Me playing hoi4 *heavy breathing*
@@SteventheOrigin there should be a mod
I love the two options on the Referendum:
"Ja!", and "Shoot Me"
In hoi4?
@@royalcinnamon In this video (at the beginning)
If you look up the actual voting card, you see that the Yes circle is like 10 times larger than the No circle so its not too off
Spoilt for choice 😂🙈
@@CloneWars501232 the troops were welcomed with flowers anyway. Lets not pretend the Austrians were mad about it or something
Stalin: "Hey, shouldn't we do someth-"
Rest of the world: " *No.* "
Mexico: *Yes.*
Mexico knew what was incoming, they called him a madman
Oh
*Si
@@Temtatork Zimmerman telegram 2 : Electric Boogaloo
Mexico just wanted to look cool.
Germany: Annexes austria
France: Meh
Great Brittain: Meh
USA: Meh
USSR: Thats bad
Mexico: HOw DaRE yOu!!!!!
And funny enough, the USSR will basically do the same thing 3 times with Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
@@brandonlyon730 And partially so with Finland Poland and Romania
@@brandonlyon730 they were like "bruh if no one cares might as well do the same"
Austrians: Yayyyyyyy*
so it turns out Poland was right to fear its former subjugators and neighbors, Germany and Russia.
It seems to be common propaganda that Poland was an irrational player trying to unite other former slaves to said neighbors for defense.
Why is the context and narrative around Polish foreign policy (pre-war) almost never painted as this "do or die" attitude to foreign policy because thats exactly what was on the table for them--ya know, because of how history actually went?
queue the other Nazi sewn propaganda that Poles were so eager to ship out Jews--no other nation in the world had as much academic and institutional print in Hebrew as did Poland during this time, ya know, for actual historical context.
We have moments like that sprinkled in Mexican history, we also helped The Phillipines fight against Japan, Ethiopia as well and during the missle crisis, Mexico was the only nation that kept relations with Cuba and even helped several cuban politicians escape into Mexico. Also helped Spain during their whole Franco era.
Also we extradicted trotsky
@@diegonals extradite means to send someone back to a country that wants to arrest/convict them. Mexico granted Trotsky asylum, where he lived the rest of his life till he was assassinated presumably by a Soviet
Didn’t Mexico also fight in WWI with the Allies?
@@Thephillips-dj1po No we didnt, we had a civil war during world war 1, the germans did tried to make Mexico join their side so they could distract the US and make them not join WWl but Mexico did not respond to Germany's letter.
long live mexico!
As an Austrian I need to clarify: We *act* as if this was a forced annexation, but it really wasn’t. Yes, under a free referendum maybe the vote woult have been slightly lower, but it was still something many austrians wanted. In german we call it "Anschluss" to the german empire, so something like "joining" it. There are many reasons for this. After WW1 the Austrian empire broke apart. What was left as "Austria" was the german part of it. But while the austrian empire was quite german-biased it was largely non-german in ethnicity, economics and capabilites (most of the austrian empires industrialisation was for example in Bohemia, which afterward became the czech republic). Thus after the big breakup a mostly rural, mountainous german rest remained with a giant capital that couln’t even be properly supported (even today Vienna is the second largest german city in the world).
At the same time this small republic of austria was governed by it’s own fascistic leader (c.f. austrofascism), and had immense economic problems. All of this combined meant that a significant part of the austrian population had little belief in this republic of austria and saw joining the weimar republic and later the german empire as a good thing.
But at the same time we are austrians, so we are quite good at saying: No, we were the victims, it is all the fault of the german empire!
joining the Weimar Republic...
Laughed in whisper
Also, fun fact : one of the reason Hitler tempered with the referendum is because he feared that Schuschnigg would temper with the referendum himself so he intervened to stop his opponent from intervening.
This wasn't a diplomatic play, it was a game of Uno at this point
Thanks, I was curious for the perspective of the Austrian people on the Anschluss. I figured there had to be significant support, either political, popular or both, in order for it to happen without a war, but I didn't know anything beyond that guess.
And probably good for people to remember if they read this: The nazis weren't seen as evil incarnate until after WWII when all their atrocities had come to light. In fact, by 1938 most of their atrocities hadn't even been committed yet. The Holocaust only really picked up steam in 1940 or even 1941, if I'm not mistaken. At the time, the nazis were nothing but an intolerant ruling party. Sad as it is to say, discrimination against Jews, even to the point of pillaging their possessions or expelling them, was pretty much par for the course for two thousand years in Europe. When discrimination is the norm (or at least common), it becomes a regular part of life, and people may not even realize it is wrong in the first place. And that's why it's unlikely for there to have been a lot of people with moral objections to the Anschluss.
@@Leyrann It is true that antisemitism and radicalism was a common thing back then and did as well exists in other countries (e.g. England was one of the big centers of modern racial theory and antisemitism of that time, they had concentration camps in Africa way before). It is also true that many Austrians did not know everything about what was going on. But you need to consider: Austria of that time was ruled facistly as well. The first concentration camp in Dachau was founded in 1933 (initially rather for interning communists than jews, which took up steam at around 36). Buchenwald was founded 37 and Mauthausen was founded directly after the Anschluss. So basically the NSDAP took the power and immediately created a concentration camp. The concentration camp Dachau was a term people knew about, represented in quite a few whisper jokes. E.g. there is a poem starting with "Lieber Gott, mach mich stumm, dass ich nicht nach Dachau kumm" (God, make me mute so that I won’t come into Dachau).
Also around 1935 there were already massive oppressions against Jews. Culture by jews stated to get classified as "entarted" and unwanted. Certain jobs could not be done by Jews anymore, and Jews lost their citicenship. Also in 1935 the "Nürnberger Gesetze" came along.
Also I would be careful with making such statements about Antisemitism. There exists certain narratives depicting jewish people as systematic european victims for 2000 years. While there were many cases of oppression and progromes there is nothing like systematic Antisemitsm. As far as I see it jewish communities simply made a good scapegoat, as their were actively segregating themselves from the rest of society. E.g. until the Haskala around 1800 Jews used their own german language called "Jiddisch" (which is jiddisch for jewish), written using hebrew letters. But this of course turns Jews into an entity that is different and foreign from the rest of the population, making them a good scapegoat to marginalize and blame for misfortune. This for example also holds true for traveling folk (such as usually is referred to as "Gypsies").
And this is by no means blaming antisemitism onto the Jews themselves, but it is an attempt of explaining why it is always repression of Jews. Which is mostly because other "foreign" blocks never kept for such a long time.
E.g. the inquisition was an institution, whose initial goal was to get rid of people of oppose the official Dogma of the catholic church.
Of course, certain narratives just get big to a point where antisemitism becomes systematic, we still have far right groups who believe in jewish conspiracies. There is an esotheric thing called "Neue germanische Medizin", which believes that common medicine is jewish. Such people tend to blame Jews for Corona and stuff.
For example early christian-jewish societies faced similar oppression in Rome, as they were perceived as a secretive, foreign organization and thus made a good scapegoat to keep the people in a good mood.
But this modern Antisemitism is actually part of german nationalism, that started in the 19th century and directly extends to racial theory and and the radical movements of the 20th century, and finally the Shoa.
Why are u telling such nonsense. Austria never wanted the Anschluss. Are u brainwashed? U should rethink your Statement. Germany occupied Austria. Germany wanted the Anschluss. Do you think Ukraine wants the Anschluss to Russia? Austria was in the same situation as Ukraine. No one would have helped Austria in a defence war against Germany. So it came to the Anschluss.
Today I learned that Mexico had the strongest reaction to the Anschluss. History is wild.
It was also pretty much the only other country besides USSR to support Republican Span, and give asylum to its refugees afterwards. Lázaro Cárdenas was pretty much the least terrible Social Democrat in history (that actually accomplished stuff, Sun Yat-Sen). FDR ain't shit.
As a thanks from austria a big square in vienna is named Mexikoplatz, which means mexico square
Same
Me too!
Yeah I feel this video did Mexico dirty. Lazaro Cardenas was arguably the best leader Mexico ever had. He implemented many good reforms and had incredible foreign policy.
"The USSR didn't have the strongest response because of Mexico"
A sentence I wasn't expecting to hear today.
Соединенные Штаты Америки
Which is funny because the USSR a few years after this basically does the same thing with the Baltic states.
@@brandonlyon730 shoulda bombed them back to the Stone Age when we had the chance
@@brandonlyon730 Yes, there is connection, because when USSR saw Allied reaction to annexation of Austria, it has proposed an alliance to France, Britain and Czechoslovakia. It didn't work out, as Poland denied request of passage of soviet troops to Czechoslovakia, and Britain wasn't really keen on idea of alliance, so brits simply played for time, trying to negotiate with Germany (France kinda wanted an alliance with Russia, though). Then Czechoslovakia got annexed, with no reaction, again. Understanding that there are apparently some British-German negotiations, soviets started to negotiate for themselves. Then Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, war with Finland, annexation of Baltics, etc.
@@brandonlyon730 you're persistent, aren't you? Looks like you're doing your job
Germany: Does an Anschluss
*this enraged Mexico, which punished him severely*
ngl you had me on the first half
ngl you had me in the first half
ngl you had us in the first half
I see you are a Man of culture as well. Love oversimplified
It was indeed a severe punishment
Mexico stopped exporting oil to the axis
And even joined the war against Japan to liberate Philipines
To keep it short:
-France and GB: Angry note noises
-US and Poland: Meh noises
-Czechoslovaquia and Yugoslavia: Fear noises
-Switzerland: Neutrality noises
-USSR: Red angry noises
-Mexico: Alv weón que nos lo cargamos al bigotes noises
Wait no,weón is Chilean, cabrón is more Mexican
Mexico translation please
@@yogurtclosetok *Holy guacamole, we are killing the mustache man*noises
@@yogurtclosetok Or something like that, it either has no traduction or takes the esence of it
@@itande0551 we actually use both kbron and weon
Fun fact: In Vienna we've got a square called "Mexico Square" to honour the mexican protest in 1938
And me as a mexican thank you
Thats hilarious
You Austrians are great, thank you.
that can be bring a man to tears
Heard of it while watching history memes, pretty cool.
Mexico: "we haven't forgotten about the zimmerman telegram."
Underrated joke, very funny!
Ah yes that fucking telegram that costed people’s lives and made racism towards Mexicans even more brutal it’s that same telegram that caused a physical border wall we had a Austrian leader he was a nice dude to bad he was killed off by morons Austria is good in my book
@mitsuki lyer bruh
@@j0an-07-arc6 Honest question. Did it really cause racism towards Mexico?
@@Perseus5 They made propaganda to drive out Mexicans who they thought were supportive of Germany during WWI. Even Mexican Americans were affected, latinos in general.
Two fun fact.
Just after ww1 over 90% of Austrians were for unification.
Germans tried to march into Austria before, but Italian army went in and blocked the border on Austrian side.
Germany literally forced Austrians in the voting cabins to sign yes for the unification (or they would be killed) 😮
Germany: annexes Austria
Mexico: aw fuck, i can’t believe you’ve done this
Fun fact: There's a park with a memorial in Austria that's named "Mexikoplatz" in honor of Mexico being the only country that clearly opposed the annexation.
Geh ma dorthin heast
There is the same comment 2 minutes before. You say park. They say square. What is it now?
Stoned Widow on Doom well both, actually.
The whole place is called Mexikoplatz (literally Mexico-square) and contains a small park (called Mexikopark).
@@StonedWidowOnDoom Actually both is right haha
Its rather silly though, because, at the time, most Austrians wanted to be apart of Germany regardless. It perpetuates the post war Austrian myth of being the first victim.
Mexico’s foreign policy at this time was quite “adventurist” in condemned the German annexation of Austria, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the Soviet invasion of Finland and supported the Spanish Republic during the civil war
Also gave asylum to Trotsky
Yeah my country was a little drunk with Tequila back in the day. Don't worry, now it is fully drunk
So the Mexican government basically played tough against nations that way much too far off to take note or care. It would never have dared to utter a single word if it were, say, the US annexing Canada.
@@yarpen26 its policy was more consistent with standing up for weak nations that had nobody else to help them. Also at this time Mexico had expropriated and nationalized its oil from US, UK and Dutch companies. As you might imagine they were not very happy and Mexico feared being invaded by those countries. So by standing up for others it might help Mexico get international support in the event that it was invaded by the US
@@yarpen26 Would your country have stood up against the US invading a border nation? Only one country has defeated that nation and there the trees speak Vietnamese
The fact that youtube is recommending this now is giving me a feeling of deja vu
Actually Mexico was not in a bad shape because of war. By 1938 the Revolution had ended and also the Cristero war. The country was slowly recovering from the chaos at the start of the century. The president was Lázaro Cárdenas (said to be one of the best presidents the country has had). The problem was that a week after the Anschluss, on the 18th the oil industry was nationalized (there has been a tense situation for a while) bringing problems with US and UK companies and to a blockade, that ironically was saved by someone who needed the oil: Hitler.
"Mexico decried the annexation as a affront to international law"
The absolute balls on this lad right here
Mexiko ballz of steel :v
I mean what was Germany going to do? Sail over the Atlantic and invade? The European nations had a real reason to not get on Germanys bad side but Mexico didn't. Hell, even if somehow the Germans did decide to declare war on Mexico that would almost certainly mean war with America so honestly it's not really that amazing a stance simply because the Germans couldn't do anything to retaliate.
@@Orthane thanks captain obvious
@@chock3779 Apparently it's not so obvious since so many people think it was a big deal or brave or something.
@@Orthane pretty sure people in this comment section are just joking and/or knows the circumstances why Mexico can protest without much retaliation from the Germans. Even if they did not know about the circumstances that allow Mexico to protest, so what?
Stop being so uptight, let people have some fun. It's not like they're harming anything.
Today I learned: There can be such a thing as "Neutrality Levels".
"Tell my wife I say...Hello."
I have no strong feelings one way or the other
Literally a photon
Im not a pro Nazi , but , Hitler didnt sign the non aggression pact with poland with the intentions of invading. He truly believed at the time that Poland would join Germany in opposition against the soviet Union. When Poland took an Anti German stance he was astonished and frustrated.
@@WhiteBoy-mq9nt what does this even have to do with swiss neutrality?
I wonder why I’m being recommended this in Feb 2022…
*Germany annexes Austria*. Switzerland “ My god.... secure the banks”
"Quick! Rig the entire country to explode!"
Switzerland: We‘re hitting neutralety-levels that shouldn‘t even be possible.
Tell my wife, "hello" ...
I'm almost sad that he made Level 5 "Literally a photon" when it should've been "Literally a neutron."
@@PuddintameXYZ if only he had asked his wife what to write
well to be fair, the Swiss thought they were next, since besides Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein, were also mostly German states outside of Germany
Also the fact that Switzerland became aggressively neutral they started shooting down anyone and anybody who violated their airspace. Allied and axis alike
Churchill stares at Chamberlain: SOON
*insert generic ww2 meme here*
Lul
Chamberlain is historys most underrated prime minister
Surrender is great
@@benivinson3693 Ah yes, the national motto of France. 🙂
Funfact: In Vienna we have a square called Mexicoplatz (Mexicosquare) because of Mexicos loyality to Austria in the time of the Anschluss.
México: Defends Austria soberany from the Germans
[ Austria will remember that ]
LOL Austria wanted the Anschluss
@@rudigerhess6425 it was either that or the Poland route. XD
@@rudigerhess6425 well, they indeed thanked Mexico.
@@jorgeriveramx Yeah after 1945 Austria found his own National Identity with the help of the allies.^^
Germany: *Annexes Austria*
Mexico: Dude, uncool
Oversimplified, nice.
@@minddump9907
I was expecting an oversimplified comment, *nice*
A man of culture.
WHOOOOOOO! look at you with pfp making oversimplified jokes. yep there's gonna be a tax for that.
Theres a tax for this comment
Switzerland : Damn this seems rather terrifying, time to become more neutral.
"I hate these filthy Neutrals, Kif. With enemies you know where they stand but with Neutrals, who knows? It sickens me."
@@poppedweasel what makes a country turn neutral, Kif? Lust for power? Gold!? Or were you just born with a heart of neutrality!
"If I don't move, they won't see me."
Germany: Takes Vienna in 1 day.
Ottomans: How??!!
“Mexico was in a pretty bad state at the time...”
Does it know any other form of existence?
Absollute hell and the Porfiriato
Well, that depends on how you define it, since following that logic, we could say that Europe is a continent constant on fire.
Bien podríamos decir que el mundo en general esta en constante caos
@@danethancoronaperez8216 estoy completamente de acuerdo contigo
Es un mal momento para ser mexicano, no importa cuando leas esto :c
"Hey guys, we've just annexed austria"
"Sorry, you've done what?"
"but Australia is all the way over there"
Poland: ,,Sure, buddy! Do whatever you feel like!"
I'm not joking: before April 1939 those two were kinda friends
Oh no!
Anyway...
@@Admiral45-10 To be fair to the poles, when choosing between the relatively unknown Hitler and the known hostile/delusional maniac Stalin, I'd also go with the new guy. Little did they know, Hitler is arguably worse than Stalin.
@@whoknows7968 back then, paradoxically, he was even pro-Polish, and really wanted some kind of treaty with Poland, as he might have needed it as buffer state with Russia. However, because British gave gwarantee to Poland, Hitler immediately changed his mind.
And the last one: Poles were under occupation of those two, and didn't notice much diffrence (with Germans being slightly better and little bit less hostile, than Soviets)...
“Dear Germans,
That wasn’t very cash money of you.
Yours sincerely,
Le France”
La France*
@@imperatormaximus8952 thought this is history and not language class
@@alexanderschauer1615 Why not both?
@@imperatormaximus8952 No no, I state that we should hereby call our country "le France" in any formal letter stating our discontent with another country to signify that we, in fact, oppose them so much that we are ready to misgender our country in protest
This is probably the most involved we would get anyway
It gave Germany more BRPs though!
1:27 the Churchill popping up behind the window is a wonderful, subtle, joke.
Love the cameo of Churchill at 1:27
There is a new movie out with Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain in Munich.
Mexico: "Fine, I'll do it myself"
"Bien, lo haré yo mismo"
That is the reason we have a Mexico square in Vienna
@@rebeccaanderson5626 Yes! Mexikoplatz! We love and respect Vienna
Mexico: SMELLS LIKE B*TCH IN HERE
Germany: *annexes Austria*
Other side of the Atlantic: YOU BASTARD
Germany: United States of America ?
America: Nope *points down*
America: Nah bruh it was Taco boi right under me
*taco taco*
Poland: ,,I won't judge you"
Everything this side of the ocean its America! America is NOT the USA
@@SamuelRusche Canadians would be kinda upset by calling them ,,Americans"
For those who don't know to much about Mexico during this time, the president shown, Lazaro Cardenas, is hero for us Mexicans. He nationalized the Oil Fields, stopping British and American Exploitation, made Mexico more Democratic, brought over refugees from Spain, protested most of the aggression from Axis Forces and was a fan of Women's Suffrage. Overall one of the, if not the, greatest presidents in Mexican History.
2:54 That's another reason to love my country
¡Viva México!
Mexico could afford to make a lot of noise being so far afield, like a small dog that barks at you only when it’s behind a gate. The nations that should have had a stronger reaction in theory had to, in practice, be measured.
@@ddc2957 The United States could have easily done the same as Mexico with no consecuence
Not necesarily declare war but at least launch a complain to the league of nations, or join Mexico's complain.
Yet the USA didn't, and I think they didn't even care about the racial hate Germany had.
It's said that the atlete Jesee Owens was congratulated by Hitler himself, yet he was denied to join the White House
All in all, while Mexico did indeed have the position to complain with no consecuence, they definitely did better than the USA and were of the few that TRULY oposed Fascism and Hitler's annexation mania at the time, unlike the USA which clearly was tolerant towards them
That’s right, Sho, they didn’t. But you know who else didn’t? About 250+ other countries. No reason to single the US out on this topic. It was not their fight at the time.
@@ddc2957 That's no reason to difamate Mexico's response, they acted as they should have and was probably the best response anyone on that position could have done.
I can understand that France, Britain, Chezcoslovakia, Poland and Yugoslavia didn't want to say anything because they would risk invation, but come on, the USA and other countries could have easily launched a complain or at the very least agree with Mexico's complain and they didn't, and that's Mexico's real merith, they didn't just shut their mouth and let it happen
I am not knocking Mexico or denigrating their voice - I am simply asking what the hell the US has to do with this, anymore than somewhere like Turkey or Ethiopia does? I mounted a defender of the European response. The US had no more obligation to intervene or make noise than anyone else in the world.
Germany: Anexes Austria
Mexico: *NO*
Everybody is talking about Germany annexing Austria.
But no one cares about Austria apparently having annexed Cyprus (3:08)
Bruh
**Turks and Greeks joined the conversation**
Oh now you’re going to give Mexico an aneurysm
@@josephleonard6695 Ναι
Oh s*it
Funny how this is recomended to me now...
I’m sorry but the fact that Mexico was the only one who tried to legitimately stop this is hilarious and sad at the same time
It’s just depressing to me
Its also an important proof of the unfairness of the UN or at the time League of Nations, when only a handful of states have an actual say on matters like this and the rest dont have any choice whatsoever
That’s easy said now - Mexico had the luxury of being a world away. The European powers at Germany’s relative doorstep had to be a lot more measured.
@@ddc2957
The US is just as far and far more powerful yet said jack shit.
As was their right, Erik.
Germany: "Imma take Austria."
Rest of the world: "Oh no! Anyway..."
Mexico: "Yo, not cool."
“Dude... uncool”
@@MRCSANY this enraged his father who punished him severely
@@MRCSANY oof using oversimplified quotes to the guillotine
@@kiyru there’s a tax for that
Mexico has an interesting history of strongly supporting international law and being one of the only countries to raise complaints about breaches. They also raised a complaint when Italy invaded Ethiopia. They weren’t in a place to do much about these complaints but it seems that they were trying to use the League of Nations as intended.
Not anymore sadly
No they were just playing it safe since there would be no consequences for them
@@jesusjimenezJAJG because nowadays politics is more complicated
@@jesusjimenezJAJG yes they do they call for the end of sanctions In Venezuela and Cuba, which leads to the starvation of people, and this causes mass immigration. Which ironically is what the Americans hate. Weather you like the venezuelan government or Cuban is irrelevant, for what business is it of USA to sanction sovereign countries?
@@jesusjimenezJAJG it condemned the russian invasion of ukraine but it doesn’t sanction it because it would hurt the mexican economy more than it would further hurt russias
I like these short history videos. It inspires me to read more about the different subjects that interest me. Well done :-)
I love his candor and inclusion of dry humor. It's exactly why I've watched half of his channel so far.
The rest of Europe: “Responding would cause a world war, and we’re definitely *not* doing that again.”
USA: “My time has not yet come.”
Mexico: “If you were just 9000 kilometers closer, why I’d...”
Ah yes, I remember the famous Mexican-German war of 1938
Well we declare war to Japan and fight to liberate the Philipines so...
@@rudynoah8627 Only did so when the Americans did. It's easy to fight for justice when you have a big power backing you. Not that I blame Mexico; gotta look out for yourself first, right?
@@stephenjenkins7971 Mexico wasn't in good terms with US, since a century before that US took half of Mexico's territory. Even Mexico had the balls to sell supplies to Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy
@@prime98k4 Okay? The US sold supplies to the Axis as well, and only really began to stop by '39. It wasn't exactly trying to stop anyone else either, so Mexico wasn't getting in the way of the US' geopolitical goals. It wasn't until the Rape of Nanking that the US really sanctioned Japan off of any of the US' oil, but the US didn't exactly try to stop others from selling things to them.
0:54 "The french implemented the harshest measures known to man... they left an angry note" XD
I was actually thinking sanctions lol
2:47 "I can change him"
It's been a long time since I've done much more than a robust nose exhale, much less audible laughter at something on youtube *bows in respect*
Interesting that Mexico had the strongest response to Austria getting annexed considering the last emperor of Mexico was Austrian.
Yeah, but it had had a history of others **cough** U.S. **cough** stealing and annexing its territories. So I guess it felt close to home.
yeah, you mean the guy that was put in place due to French imperial ambitions? the one that was not wanted by the majority of the MEXICAN population and that lost a war and got kicked out? yeah of course they would be against it and any other powerful nations preying upon weaker ones.
You're right, but that fact was in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire context.
70 years later, there was a different world, and Austria was already a independent Republic.
Mustache man: Annex's Austria
UK and France: ANGRY LETTER TIME
Mexico: "Alemania no swiping!"
Poland: ,,Meh, let his have his fun"
There's no need for that apostrophe
Where was Radetzky when Europe and Austria needed him?
USA: *still too depressed to care atm*
Germany: I'm gonna Anschluss Austria
France: you and what army
Germany: this army *shows army*
France: fair enough
Maybe you oversimplified it?
@@Vikingcatbro ayyyyy
@@Vikingcatbro
Is that a punchline?!
@@Jitssyu Not sure but its a reference
Hundreds of thousands of men in lederhosen appear in the background.
as an austrian myself i have to say , props to mexico for standing up
Fun fact: Austrian troops were stationed in Berlin and German troops were stationed in Vienna after Austria joined the Reich
why are you guys cheering mexico for protesting against annexation of austria? that was nothing bad for the people they both had close race and spoke the same language. the germans did not went to austria and started killing the austrians after the anschluss bruh. even the austrians themselves welcomed the german troops and hitler entering austria because they voted themselves for it to happen
This is extremely interesting to compare to the current events now.
"I have no strong feelings one way or the other"
-Switzerland, basically always.
That’s not what neutrality means...
Swiss neutrality was not pacifistic, it was "us vs the world" defensive.
"If I don't survive, tell Liechtenstein, hello".
@@CSDragon something like: ,,We don't want a war, but it's better to prepeare if war wants us" strategy?
All I know is my gut says maybe.
Germany: *anschluss austria*
World: *surprised*
Switzerland: *microwaves popcorn*
Lichenstien : ‘also eating popcorn’
@@thatrandomguyontheinternet2477 yep
Mexico: Excuse me. What the fuck.
@David Arauz Sure thing! *sit back on beach chairs with umbrellas, eating popcorn and cheering glasses of hot-cocoa*
Mexico: That's our corn and also wtf Germany!?
I've learned for about history by watching 5 of your videos, than I learned in 4 years of highschool. Thank you for your work.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!!
Germany: I want that thing
Chamberlain: Fine you can have thing but no more...
I want that thing
A N D R E P E A T
*OverSimplified, wooh!*
@@karsaja4693 I read that as Andre Peat.
Mexico: A N G E R Y
As an Austrian I learned that at the local college. Viva la Mexico! ;)
We don't put articles in countries' names, most of the time; and because "Mexico" ends with o it would've been "el Mexico". So it is just "¡Viva México!".
Also "Es lebe Österreich!"
Austria: *gets anschluss*
French note: _"Sacre Bleu!"_
*Germany proceeds to annex Austria
*Mexico: "U DID WHAT?"
Switzerland's DEFCON neutrality level made me spill my tea.
Of all the sad things to hear...
LOVE TO MEXICO FROM AUSTRIA!!!!!!!!!!
0:55 This is one of the most accurate graphs ever made.
"Oh come on this adolf guy seems nice. Have you ever seen this guy's paintings? I'm sure that this guy won't do anything bad. Let's give him everything he wants and it'll be all sunshine and rainbows from here... *Right?* "
Britain 1938(probably)
@Luís Andrade because they attacked Poland,what did you want? For them to just let Germany ravage Europe?
@Luís Andrade half of the world is not equal to Europe😏
@Luís Andrade yes it's up there was a treaty with the British saying that the British would guarantee polish Independence Hitler knew this so he knew he was starting a war with Britain
@@highcouncil1302 Thats right, but he didn't want to, he had to. Hitler kind of liked Britain and wanted them to rule over the seas, while Germany should rule over the Land.
@@danzoom you're right. half of the world is much more valuable than a small continent
Funfact: Because of being the only nation to complain in the League of Nations there is a square in Vienna today called "Mexikoplatz"
Great video as always!!
Greetings from Austria
What? Haha, I just wanted to write the exact same comment. 😅 Greetings from Austria to Austria.
I wrote almost the same comment but I'm from Mexico.
Thanks Austria bro.
Danke mein freund
That’s the closest thing to respect that Mexico has ever received from a First World nation.
@@DominikLeitner AUSTRIA STRONK
This video was not only informative but hilarious. Starting with the Treaty of Versailles- Everyone and Belgium. The Swedish neutrality level had me in tears. Level 4- 'Tell my wife hello.'
Futurama!
I really like these videos keep it up
Mexico: "This is abhorrent and an affront to international law, right guys?"
Everyone else: ...
Mexico: "...Guys?"
USA: "Did you hear something?"
More like
MEX: Austria needs help
USA: Austria have Oil?
MEX: nop
USA: sorry we cannot interfere
MEX: lol wut
Mexico: It smells like BITCHES IN HERE
To be fair with the other countries, Mexico was at a very comfortable position at the other side of the Atlantic, unlike in Europe angering Germany would have no consequences.
**Ya'll hear sumthn'?*
@@coe3408 *Germany launched a naval invasion of Yucatan*
Germany: *annexes Austria*
Poland and Czechoslovakia: Well at least that won’t happen to us, right? Right?!?!
You want to think about making concessions to Germany or teaming up with the USSR?
*Goes communist Czechoslovakia*
well as czech our reaction was pretty much "we are fucked... " and we signed aliance with france and started building bunkers all around borders. Sadly allies betrayed us in munich agreement 1938 when we lost all the defense near borders so...
@@Sun_or_Lions The Little Entente was probably the most useless international initiative of the twentieth century's Europe. It failed in precisely every single one of its goals. In hindsight, the collapse of Austria-Hungary was the best thing that could have happened to Hitler-the successor countries were still loyal but much too weak to pursue anything in the way of sovereign policy. A united Austria-Hungary fighting for the Axis would have been another Italy and probably made the war last two years less than it actually did.
@@Sun_or_Lions When you look at that map after Germany united with Austria... Not much hope.
3:03 is everyone gonna ignore that apparently Guatemala Anexed Chiapas on this map?
Yo también me pregunto por qué lo quita, para ese entonces ya habían pasado más de 100 años de su anexión no?
@@danethancoronaperez8216 seguramente sea un error
Pero casi siempre que veo un mapa de México en este canal, Guatemala anexionó Chiapas de nuevo
I am genuinely terrified whenever somebody leaves an angry note
I love that referendum voting ballot at 0:14!
It is inspired by the real one, where the circle with the "Nein" option was really significantly smaller and moved to the side (it didn't actually say "shoot me", but it's close), and it used that kind of font.
I think, "shoot me" is wrong: The Nazis surely did not recognize who voted for and who against
It is not a font, but a typeface, a (modern) fractura. And the the difference is that the actual thing used proper fractura typography (which has a few rules about ligatures and about ſ/s), while this in the video is just some fractura style font without any regards to typographic rules. Funnily enough the fractura was first pushed as "german type", while other broken types like the "Schwabacher" was considered as "jewish". Later they pushed antiqua families instead, but broken script types has kept an image of "nazi-style" types, often used by neo-nationalsocialist groups. Which is a pity, for they are beautiful old types.
Mexico MVP
Ganyu
Austria named an area Mexicoplatz in honor of the formal complaint to the annexation
@@AndresRamirez-fi5uw they also have one in Ethiopia after the second Italian war
What does MVP stands for?
@@walhallw7436 most valuable player
I love Mexico's reaction to Anchluss and invasion of Ethiopia. They were not able to stop those event but they contunie do the right thing
Thats why we no have the mexico sqaure in vienna to remember mexicos reaction.
This situation looks quite similar to the situation we're going through these days huh...
Except the biggest difference being that Austria wanted to be apart of Germany, while Ukraine doesn't want to be apart of Russia.
@@whishiwhooshi5783 It is more like occupation of Czechoslovakia
@@whishiwhooshi5783 Yeah, I'm not talking much about that part tho. Clearly there wasn't a war to occupy Austria or anything like that. What I'm talking about is the reaction of the rest of the world. I hope it doesn't go like it did back then though.
Germany: Annexes Austria
Mexico: And I took that personally
It couldn’t have been unpopular. It’s like the second focus I pick
H-how, that’s like 200k manpower away
I appreciate the model of the Gneisenau/Scharnhorst for that battleship. Very nice.
When mexico tries to stop the invasion of austria after being invaded by a habsburg prince
No hard feelings :D
He was actually quite a decent ruler
@@sebstianderflingherajuria6233 much better than Juarez worse than Diaz
@@luisalvarado6659 nah u blind on Juarez
we learned in school that they felt bad about murdering him. dunno if that was the reason.
Mexico also had the strongest reaction to the Italian invasion of Ethiopia.
Literally hurt my sides laughing at that dig at Switzerland with the grades of neutral 🤣
“I can change him” had me dying
0:17 So Cyprus was also part of Austria at that time, very interesting
Thank you, I literally laughed out loud.
It still is
It was an Austrian colony at that time. The island was used solely to grow olives in order to produce ammunition for their weapons.
Danzig was also an Estonian colony, the more you know
Its probably a sneakpeak to a cyprus video
Love the Futurama reference on the Swiss level of neutral. "Beige alert" and "If I don't survive, tell my wife hello"
Has still implications, when you e.g. look at the components listed when unboxing a kitchen appliance:
...
Anschlusskabel*
...
*AT: Kabel
"Uncertain times"
Lázaro Cárdenas strutting in with that ‘You Suck’ sign was the best part.
2:26 Poland’s government felt that Germany wasn’t a threat to Poland. 😬
Back then, they had reasons for it.