American reacts to old German Flags
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best way to insult us is to call the gold part of our flag "yellow" 😉
I don't care if it's yellow or gold
Or Mustard
If it's not gold the whole meaning goes lost.
@@ryxan6968 doesn't matter it's important. If it's not gold the whole meaning ceases to exist
@@masy8628 👏
Revolutionists: We shall make our flag after our uniforms to convey a deep feeling and emotion!
Ryan: Oh its mustard! Thats neat!
😂
Coal, blood and mustard, that is the real meaning of the colours.
@@GilbMLRS The red doesn't represent Kotelett? Coal, Kotelett, Mustard, all year long.
Thank god he didn't call it "wurst-colour"...
Well schwarz rot Senf (Black Red mustard) Was a typical nazi saying for the democratic flag 😅
What is often missed is the meaning of the colors in the rebellion:
"From black servitude through red blood to golden freedom."
Underrated tidbit, hardly anyone knows. Colortheory in flags :) Thanks for dropping, as I was about to write it :D
Thank you ❤
Ich hab danach gesucht und hätte es sonst selbst drunter geschrieben 😄
Or from the colors from the Uniforms, because most men didn‘t have an unified Uniform, so they colored their clothes black, red and the buttons golden
And of course it had to have three colours comme la Tricolore ...
@@_erheblicher_4857 cheap brass buttons without coloring them golden.
It is GOLD, not yellow 😉
And it's the Habsburg's gold. Just like the German national anthem is the same as the old Austrian Kaiser-Hymne, just with different lyrics ; )
And to nitpick the nitpickers: in heraldics, gold and yellow are the same, as are white and silver.
It's acutally yellow, but no on is allowed to insult our flag this way!
@@ChrisTian-rm7zm
it's not. Have a look at Belgium's flag, that's yellow!
@JayHill the truth be like:
'Bei heraldischer Betrachtung lässt sich indes vertreten, was Arnold Rabbow prägnant formulierte:
„Die deutschen Flaggenfarben sind in der Praxis wie in der Weimarer Zeit schwarz-rot-gelb, aber sie heißen schwarz-rot-gold.“ '
; )
Simply put:
Black-Red-Gold is a symbol of the German Republic, while Black-White-Red is a symbol of the German Empire.
The Nazis preferred the imperial connection, so they used that flag.
Also, it's kinda funny that you mentioned mustard in the beginning.
One of the common sneers used by the Nazis in reference to the republican flag was "Black-Red-Mustard".
Though Wilhelm II rejected to be burried or his grave moved to germany unless monarchy was restored. Not granting Hitler the "pride" to have a funeral for the Kaiser.
@@crowbarviking3890 The Nazis liked the imperial connection, but the imperial connection didn't like them back. 😅
So true; one of my first thoughts seeing the thumbnail.
While Black-Red-Gold started out as a symbol for national unification, it soon connected with a democratic, progressive and later to an extent social mindset. That's why it was the flag of the shortlived republic of the interwar years, and that's why one of the very first actions of the new NS gouvernment (after arresting and/or killing their political opponents) was to get rid of it and return to the old colours of the Wilhelminian Empire. The Black-Red-Mustard sneer was used by none other than propaganda chief Goebbels himself.
They used that flag only in the beginning.. It's not a Nazi flag. Hitler later banned that flag because it's a monarchy flag.. The Nazi flag is the swastika flag..
One of the reasons why Germans will always correct you if you say the 3rd colour in their flag is yellow, is that their neighbour Belgium has Black-YELLOW-Red. Germany's colors are Black-Red-GOLD, and if both German and Belgian flags are depicted next to each other, the German gold is a bit more "orangey" than the Belgian yellow to differentiate it. :)
Danke, ist mir echt noch nie aufgefallen!
No. Not for sure.
The vast majority of Germans has no idea what the belgian flag is like.
That is something Belgians deal with.
@@kellymcbright5456 Germany and Belgium share a mutual border. Western European countries are pretty small by comparison, so "looking beyond your own borders" is a pretty common concept for most Western Europeans. I can assure you that most adult Germans know what the Belgian flag looks like, and that the German "Schwarz, Rot, Gold" is different to the Belgian Black, Yellow, Red. I don't want to make assumptions based on your name, but "the vast majority" certainly is a very wrong world view of yours.
@@kellymcbright5456 as a german guy i dont know anyone that doesnt know what the belgian flag looks like
In heraldry there are colors and metals. Red, green etc being colors. Silver (white) and Gold (Yellow) being metals. So the American flag is technically red, silver and blue...
Historically this video is drenched in mistakes.
The congress of vienna established the german confederation, NOT the north german. Their banner: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutscher_Bund#/media/Datei:Wappen_Deutscher_Bund.svg
The north german confederation was established after the austro-prussian war, the german confederation being disolved at this point. As to where this flag at 3:33 comes from, I cannot say, but is likely nothing official.
Furthermore, until 1959, the DDR simply used the three colours before adding the emblem you see on the right 8:43.
Now, the last mistake: The left flag at 8:43 is not the national flag of the BRD. That was simply black, red and gold without any symbols in it. There is a version that has the eagle on it, but that is for other, official uses. This concludes my rant.
That’s what I needed. Thank you. Videos like this are the source of confusion for many.
and only the rounded eagle (facing RIGHT!!!! unlike the Nazi bastard) is for official use (Bundesdienstflagge) the one with the straight eagle is just made up, fake flagg alert
3:33 is the 1816 flag of the Jenaer Urburschenschaft, still related to the Lützower Freicorps.
To confuse you a little more: The version with the eagle in the middle is still in use. It's for official state installations, like military posts. Had to pull that one up the mast often enough. Or order around some guys to do it in the morning.
There are actually two versions of this flag. One is the „Dienstflagge der Bundesbehörden“ (Service flag of federal agencies) the use of which is strictly reserved for federal agencies, the military and embassies. It uses the „Bundesschild“-Form of the eagle. There is a hefty fine on improper use.
The second is the flag with the eagle one often sees at sporting events or privat flag poles. It uses the „Bundeswappen“-Form of the eagle. It’s called the „Bundeswappenflagge“ and its use is not prohibited.
Auch so ziemlich die einzige Konstellation im Leben, in der man "Wehe der Lappen berührt den Boden" hört.
AND we have flags with the Coat of arms of all Bundesländer. ^^
@@rakat2746 No, not all. The official flag of some Bundesländer is the German flag mit the coat of arms (Lower Saxony, Rhineland Palatinate, Saarland), most have their own colours though. Saxony is white and green, Schleßwig-Holstein is blue-white-red, North-Rhine-Westphalia is green-white-red, etc. And some have their coat of arms on different colours (like Saxony-Anhalt or Brandenburg).
@@Klotz83 That’s not true at all. There is only the Dienstflagge der Bundesbehörden (for Army and Air Force) and Dienstflagge der Seestreitkräfte (for the Navy). Both black, red and gold with Bundesschild (Navy flag as pennant). Germany doesn’t have a „war flag“.
There are special pennants in white with a black cross to announce the presence of an admiral on a war ship, but that’s not a flag.
No, it's supposed to be in the center. The flag he showed was a navy flag. See:
"The official specification for the NSDAP's flag placed the circle and the swastika dead-centre in the middle of the flag.
However, on 20 December 1933 a decree was issued authorising an off-centre version of the flag for use at sea. This was purely a practical decision intended to make the emblem more visible (because it would be closer to the flagpole)."
7:07 Yes, there are some (often very weird) people who still use the flag of the German Empire. It can often be seen at far right protest for example. The use of the flag is compariable to the confederate flag in the USA.
nah not really. its the left wing trying to make the old flag rightwing although its not
The hakenkreuz flag is forbidden, that’s why the neonazis use the imperial flag
@@MetalGuitarTimo Well, only right wingers are using it, so..
interessting how the same people everywhere trying to use a flag (that everytime was in use for a short time)
as theyre symbol :D
@@MetalGuitarTimo I guess for you all people left from the Afd are "left wing"? XD. Nobody besides right wing extremists are using the flag. Even right wing politicians (als e.g. CSU are not using it.
Welcome to European history. Now imagine how history lessons in school looked like.
Not to mention genealogy of the assorted ruler clans.
@@steemlenn8797 tbf if you wanted you could simplify that into one really large circle ;)
@@p3chv0gel22 A totally black one because of all the connection lines. And probably more crowns than people in there too.
The most funny thing is that there was at least one case where the baron of X and the lord of Y (whatever titles they had), because of their fealthy and alliances, had to make war against each other while being the same person.
Haha so true!!!
And it started in the early middle ages - if they did not fight they married. Such a mess.
Watching Ryans face when he gets a history lesson was painful but also hilarious xD
Video: "... and this was the first time the colors black, red and gold was seen..."
Ryan: "Black, red and white... got it."
Many flags that feature a circle in them still have it off-centered (like the flag of Palau or Bangladesh for example), that's because previously flags were supposed to almost always be seen on flagpoles or attached to something rather than rectangular images on a surface.
If you attach a flag with a circle in it to a flagpole and there is no wind, the more the circle is near to the pole (where the flag is less distorted and crumpled) the more visible the circular shape will be, hence the more the flag will be recognisable from a distance.
When white and yellow colors are depicted on flags, it stands for silver and gold. The German colors are black red and gold.
Correct, in traditional heraldry anyways. However, the German flag violates traditional heraldic rules anyways by having adjacent colors (black and red). Traditionally, colors may only border metals (i.e. silver or gold) or furs. So given that it's not a traditional flag, it could be yellow. That being said, it is not, as Art. 22 GG explicitly defines it as black-red-gold.
Another interesting fact: the Bavarian flag is *officially* white and blue, not silver and blue, thus also violating heraldic tradition (would be a "correct" traditional flag if it was silver and blue).
EDIT: Oh, and of course the US flag is also officially red white and blue, not red silver and blue. And it also has red bordering blue.
@@yannickurbach5654 Thank you, for your complementary facts.
Flags are not heraldry...
@@HenryLoenwind Ok, fair enough, they aren't. But vexillology has only been considered separate from heraldry (rather than a subdiscipline) since very recently (first known usage of the term is in 1959). Flags are also usually derived from or otherwise closely related to the respective coats of arms.
Don't forget,dear ryan:german comments are factual,not mean or rude;the very fact we love to interact with you shows enough appreciation.😊
not complaining is praise enough as we say in germany^^
From the shadows of serviture, through bloody wars to the golden light of freedom (this is the meaning of the German flag (and please don't call it yellow ;) ))
The easiest way to remember how to pronounce the German 'u' is by remembering the pronunciation of 'u' in butcher.
Nope, it doesn't stand for "mustard", but the uniforms worn by soldiers defending German territories from Napoleon (the Putin of the beginning of the 19th century): black uniforms with red stripes and GOLDEN buttons!
So our flag is offensive against the french - need to change it then 😄
@@zoefezius6615 There were only men fighting in the Lützow Corp, so I guess it's also misogynist and transphobic 😂
@@cjane_world There were actually at least 2 women fighting in the Lützow Corp, disguised as men of course.
@@lukasosterloher9105 oh wow, so it's just misogynist and not transphobic 🤪
@Zòè Fezius A nice sport is called 'Offend the French'. The Britons are masters in this
To be fair, I also really like your theory about us loving our mustard. There is a color called "Senfgelb" ("mustard yellow"), which has RAL and HEX values, so perhaps you come across that color in the US too. It's a bit more golden, which would have been a perfect fit. It's known to be a happy/sunny color.
As a 35y old german i didnt know about half of the stuff told in this video. You make this an education channel Ryan!
So it's true. Schools got much much worse.
@@rainerm.8168 I am 25 and I learned all of this in school, so yeah no, at least not everywhere
the colors were also used by the Landsknechte in the 16th century. They used a lot more different Colours but the dominant one were black,yellow and red (the flag of the HRE). the swiss Eidgenossen didn't use black
This video rushes through Germany's history kind of quickly, so it's possible that you missed some of the details.
The German nation as we know it today did not exist before 1871.
So, in any of the pictures dated before that, the Black-Red-Gold flags do not represent the German nation, but rather an idea promoted by groups of political activists. (What we today would call a grassroots movement).
This also explains why there are different flag designs shown together in one picture. The different groups were all using the same colors, but they had not agreed on a single design yet.
When the unification finally did happen, it took the from of the German Empire, which used the Black-White-Red flag.
After World War I the Empire collapsed, and the newly founded Republic chose to use the pre-imperial "German Union" colors.
Then the Nazis came into power, and they abolished the republican flag and replaced it with both the old imperial flag and their own party flag.
After World War II the 3. Reich collapsed, Germany was split into two separate countries, and both of them chose to return to the republican colors.
What happened to it? Quite simply, when the last emperor abdicated, the old flag was replaced by a new one. But you can also find many explanations on Wikipedia under the name 'Flagge of the German Empire'.
08:40
If you want to get super-specific, that "three colored horizontal bars" approach wasn´t even the first concept for a post-WWII
Before that one became final, the so-called "Wirmer flag" was proposed - a design that arranged the black-red-gold in a cross-shaped pattern similar to the Nordic countries and that originated in an anti-N*zi resistance cell led by a Mr. Wirmer.
Mr. Wirmer (or maybe one of his descendants - dunno if he survived the war) then proposed his design for a new democratic Germany (which he promoted as "showing kinship to our fellow democracies up North", among other things), but instead the new/old three horizontal bars were chosen.
...fast forward a few decades and the Wirmer flag has resurfaced - *as a far-right protest flag and "symbol against the oppression by the American puppet regime in Berlin"*, utterly perverting its noble ideal into something vile
To say the least, Mr. Wirmers descendants are *very displeased* about this turn of events.
There is this saying about the meaning behind the colours of the flag:
"From the darkness (black) of subjugation through bloody (red) battles to the golden (gold) light of freedom."
And you are right about its simplicity, it makes it much easier to draw in third-grade geography class :D
I think he got it a little sideways when he talked about the colouring of the uniform. Back then, because there were so many different uniforms in the German states it was difficult to organise a uniform for everyone. Everyone had black or close to black coats and official militaries wore brass buttons that did kind of look goldish, add red armbands for everyone and you have an improvised uniform of black, red and gold.
The current flag always stood for the freedom of the people, so I think it is very fitting to have gone back to using it. We do still use the federal eagle, though only in government buildings. It is actually forbidden for private housholds to show a flag with the eagle.
The reason why the Lützow uniform was black was quite prosaic.
Even though the unit was _sponsored_ by Prussia, it didn't receive much direct support, and relied on volunteers and public support. That meant cloths (and existing uniforms) from all sorts of sources. And even though "true black" was a very difficult colour to dye back then, "making it as dark as possible" was the only consistent method to turn clothing of all sorts of colours into something "uniform".
The designation of the German flag as "Black-Red-Mustard" reminds me of the 1975 TV movie "Tadelloeser & Wolff", where it was used as a deprecation.
but you gotta say the imperial flag does look clean. black white red thats a good combination of colours
When did this happend: At the same situation when the US changed the "13 British Colonies" - Union Flag to "Stars and Stripes".
Or in Short when the Revolution wiped out the Monarchy and Germany transformed to a Republic. So Why should Germany still uses the Flag of the Monarchy?
And because it is a revolutionary flag it means:
From the
Dark (BLACK) times of surpression with our
Blood (RED) into a
Golden future.
Please dont blame the golden stripe of the german flag yellow ;-)
Remark: The normal West-German flag never had a coad of arms on it. Just the flag of the GDR.
The logo of the flag being offset is to make the flag appear symmetrical when it's waving. Therefore the logo is offset to the hoist side.
I think there was also a version of some students on a festival at Wartburg in Eisenach, where they had a red flag with a black cross like you see it in Scandinavia e. g. Norway. The cross then had a yellow surrounding line on it.
'I know you guys like mustard. Is that how it came up?' is now my favourite sentence
Hello Ryan.
The flag shown at 8:50 for the Federal Republic of Germany is the so-called "Bundesdienstflagge" and can only be found in, on and in front of federal agency buildings. For example, in front of embassies, the Bundestag or the tax office (🥴😉). It can be recognized by the rounded shape of the shield and the federal eagle with spread plumage.
An adapted form can be found among fans of sports events. Here the coat of arms is tapered at the bottom and the federal eagle has vertical plumage.
The state flag of the GDR was not provided with the state coat of arms until October 1, 1959, in order to distance itself internationally from the class enemy FRG.
There are some people who still fly the old black white red flag. But its almost equal to the 1933 one in its symbolic meaning. Kind of like the confederate flag in the us
Actually, its the "german confederation" (german: Deutscher Bund)
found after 1815.
The north german confederation was found after the german /austro-prussian War, 1867 - 1871 when it became the second German Empire.
Short correction: The german unification was on oktober 3. 1990, almost 1 year after the fall of the Berlin wall.
Narrator: Talks about the Lützower Freikorps
Ryan: "I was trying to figure out, whats going on in this picture"
Narrator: "... The Lützower Freikorps "
Ryan: The What?
Well, the black-white-red is about as appropriate as flying a confederate flag, also since the swastika flag is completely banned, the black-white-red is often used as a stand-in for it.
There are also the Reichsbürger (eng: Citizens of the Empire) who use the old flag. But yes, I totally agree it is really not appropriate to use the German Empire flag nowadays. It's always sketchy people if you see one used.
PS: For anyone reading this and not knowing what the Reichsbürger are: They are a bunch of conspiracy theorists who believe modern day Germany just don't exist.
@@sera_kath Reichsbürger in Germany can be compared to the "Souvereign Citizen" movement in the USA.
That's total nonsense!
The imperial flag has nothing to do with Nazis!
The "Battle of Jutland" was fought under "black-white-red".
The old German colonies still fly this flag today!
They are the colours of Prussia and the "North German Confederation".
And don't always pull "Reichsbürger" and "Nazis" out of your ass to drag the old flag in the mud!
Short Addition:
The North German Confederation was formed 1866 after the Austro-Prussian War who "replaced" the German Confederation, where (German-)Austria were also a part of.
There are also three version of the German flag.
a) just the colour stripes
b) the colour stripes with the German eagle (Bundesdienstflagge mit Bundeswappen)
c) the presidential flag with colour stripes with the German presidents eagle
The use of b) is reserved for official use by the state and government, and authorised organsisations c) is reserverd to be only used by the German President.
nice video ryann, btw mustard in german its called senf
Best way to insult me personally is to name Luebeck and Bremen as Hanse-Cities and not Hamburg, Germanys second largest city. I never knew how we got our flag, so thanks for putting this up. I don‘t mind the yellow - how are you supposed to know.
The colors are: Black - Red - GOLD (not yellow). Yellow ist often used for printings, because Gold is difficult to print.
Many people think, that it´s yellow - it´s not 😉
The explanation missed that the colours of flag of the Holy Roman Empire (like here the one with the eagle at the beginning) were also black, red and yellow.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall was not the reunification. It was just the opening of the borders. The Fall was on 9 November 1989 and the reunification was on 3 October 1990.
In heraldic terms white represented Silver and yellow represented Gold. And you could only ever place a colour on metal and metal on colour but usually not colour on colour.
Sheldon cooper flag channel?😂
they allway overlook the 2 days of occupation with the german davidstarflag🤣
In Germany we have an old legend about the meaning of our colors black, red and we say gold not yellow....it means from the night (darkness) through blood to the light. Or how we say...aus der Nacht durch Blut zum Licht (Glanz).
Black, Red, Gold where also chosen because way back in those days those colors where the garment colors of the German soldiers...
3:11 North German Confederation was founded in 1866, as Prussia left the German Confederation.
It was the German Confederation that was founded in 1816.
There was a little misunderstanding. Black Red Gold was never our flag before 1919, it was just a symbol for german unification when germany was still a bunch of smaller states.
The Uniforms of the "Freicorps Lützow" in Liberation-War against Napoloen were made from Black fabric, Red trimmings and golden buttons. This Colors used the revolutionary from 1848. They want have an unified Germany, where all equal. No one should have privilegs.
Milk wasn't available more, so orange juice came instead.
They kept alphabetical order, so instead coffee, milk, strawberry, it changed to coffee, cherries and oranges.
8:45 as i fellow East German my reaction to that was as follows: "SAMMA"
4:01, its posible, that the picture were coulord wrong, at least the flag hang on the castle was the way its today, being indicated by the text on it
The Black, White and Red flag of the kaiser Raich is still used by German Monarchist as well as the flag of Prussia but the modern nazis in germany are also using imperial symbolism from the Kaiser Reich due to nazy symbols are banned so monarchist are shunned upon due to the modern nazis
Eeeeh
We don’t really have some Monarchists in Germany wo could use it (because they don’t exist)…
To answer your Question, the german imperial flag is since this year illegal in Germany so its not used by anyone anymore because of that .
The U.S. flag had its changes, too. Starting with the 13 stars in a circle until now with the 50 stars representing all the Federal States. The eagle in the Black-Red-Gold flag is representing the government and its branches, for Western Germany and the United Germany it was always only Black-Red-Gold.
Did you notice the flag or symbol of the holy roman empire had a black eagle with red claws on golden background? Those uniforms had these colors. But in the revolution of 1848 black,red,gold became the colors of democracy.
By the way the flag of Ostfriesland is the white eagle on white background...
Well its in fact very easy. ^^
The democratic /republican flag: Black Red Gold
The empire/ conservative flag: Black White Red
And the traitor flag of the Nazis.
Today we have the democratic flag. (Tadaaa)
Your explanation of the US flag is exactly what I heard years ago - each one of the stripes is for a colony and the stars resemble the states inside the USA... It's good to get this aproved by an american. (I'm German, now living in Austria)
The flag with black, white and red is only used by nazis today. It's not allowed officialy.
he's a bit wrong there, the official flag of west germany was just the black-red-gold one, while eastern Germany used the one with the hammer, compass, and wreath emblem in the middle. The one with the eagle emblem in the middle was specifically used (in various different stylistic variations) as a service flag for specific institutions. Only with the world cup in 2006 it became more usual to fly the flag with the eagle, because it looked a bit more stately I guess.
There are people who still use the Flag of the German Empire, but.. Yeah it's like an american having a confederation flag. It's equal to that I would say
Please do more about german history. It is complicated but also interesting and maybe funny. The black-red-gold flag was the true flage all the time
our flag has GOLD!!! not yellow GOLD!!!!
also "black white red ur furher is dead" its basicly the colors the neo nazis etc use who wanna go back to old style ...
imagine the black white red flag like the flag of the confederation flag in the usa ... is history but you know exactly what kind of character someone is who waves it around xD
One of the most common interpretations of the colors of the actual German flag is: "Out of the dark "black" - through to the blood of revolution "red" - will lead us to the golden "gold" age!!! Seems as if many german fellows have forgotten...
It's pretty normal that flag symbols are off centre. Just look at Spain or Slovakia and all the countries that have something in the canton like the US and Malta. It just works better when the flag is being flown on a pole.
People of Prussian heritage sometimes fly the flag of the German Empire still to this day. I'm German but I think it's still important to remember one's heritage and those who came before and the lessons our shared history teaches us. But sadly our flags are mostly misused as a symbol by the far-right nowadays :/
yes i live in the german town called hilden and found this flag on a sign
it is not regular mustard it is the spicy air that they use
The coulours If the German flag representing the coulours of the
It was then said: The black represents the dark night of the occupation. The gold for the dawn on the horizon, and the red for the blood shed for liberation. But according to all sources, the colors were there first, and then it became symbolically charged.03.10.2023
yes, it can be difficult to select the usa flag on a phone or tablet when they are small and have no accompanying text ...
🇨🇱🇱🇷🇲🇾🇵🇷🇺🇸 :-)
Prussia is like northern germany and Poland. The Hanseatic league are like a cooperation between big trading cities on the coastline. Bavaria was a seperate Kingdom in the 1800s And Austria was also big in the Austrian Hungarian Empire. So Prussia, Austria-Hungary and France were the big players back then. Maybe you can also add the Ottoman Empire, basicly the Turks.
The flag black, white, red stands for the empire and the beginning of the Hitler party.
The red, white with black swastika was the flag of the Hitler Party.
Black, red, gold stands for democratic Germany. This flag ties in with the first democracy in the Weimar Republic and was continued after 1945.
From 1945 to 1990 there was still a distinction between West and East Germany but with the same basic flag.
The Black-White-Red was created by Prussia after it had defeated the German Federation in 1866 and annexed most of Northern Germany except some friends and allies which it forced to join the new "Northern German Federation" ruled by Prussia. For the flag of that new "federation" they took the Prussian black-and-white flag and merged it with the white-and-red of the medieval Hanseatic League (due to the official legend, but red and white were also the colors of the former Margraviate of Brandenburg within the former Holy Roman Empire, which was now home to the Prussian capital Berlin).
The southern states Baden, Württemberg and Bavaria, defeated in the war of 1866, were afterwards persuaded to join Prussia as allies in the Prussian-French War of 1870/71 and then somewhat reluctantly acknowledged the King of Prussia as "German Emperor" (not "Emperor of Germany", because that title would have claimed power over the other states and kings within Germany, and not "Emperor of the Germans", because that would have sounded to democratic for him) - actually he became a kind of federal president. The new Empire simply took over the flag of the Northern German Federation. The other southern German states Liechtenstein and Austria did not join the Empire.
The coat of arms of the old Holy Roman Empire and the German Kingdom within that Empire also contained the colors gold (background), black and red (black Roman eagle with red beak and claws), sometimes with a red border. It was also shown on the banner of that Empire. The Lützow corps was put together from volunteers from different states whose uniforms had all different colors. So they tinted them all black and added some red and golden applications (partly in reminiscence of the old flag).
After the Congress of Vienna the countries which were formerly states within the German Kingdom founded the German Federation (including the parts of the Kingdom of Prussia which were within the Empire before 1806, which excludes East and West Prussia, as well as Luxembourg and Austria without Hungary, but including the Kingdom of Bohemia (Czechia), South Tyrol and Slovenia). The colors black, red and gold were considered by many as the "German" colors, but they became only official in 1848 by a decree of the "Bundestag" in Frankfurt/Main (which was a congress of delegates of the states within the federation). Therefore it became the official flag of the federation and was consequently used by the federated troops in the "German war" (not Austria-Prussian war, that was far earlier!) 1866 against Prussia and Italy.
The Hambach picture (4:00) is black and white in the original; the version shown here was colored at a later time, so we don't know the exact colors of the flags.
7:20 The black-white-red is mainly used only by some far-right extremists and the so-called "Reichsbürger" who reject the democratic Federal Republic of Germany and want back a German Empire ruled by a Prussian Emperor, but the colors as such are still part of the logos of some older societies like the German Sea Rescue Society (czcams.com/video/twaFWnTnsyg/video.html).
The "yellow" is "gold".
It's referring to golden buttons on jackets of freedom fighters.
So the recent flag is/was also the first flag.
The other two "sneaked in" with their belonging totalitarian system/dictatorship.
(Kaiserreich/empire and of course the so called "3. Reich" (first was the "holy roman empire of the german nation(s)).)
The US flag is pretty, imo.
I like fine stripes and I like stars.
😁
8:35 It's not "the West with the U.S. and the Allies" and "the East with the Soviet Union", as the Soviet Union also is part of the Allies. It should be "the West with the U.S. and the Western Allies".
Even that is still not entirely correct since the U.S. are part of the Western Allies, it should be "The West with the U.S. and the other Western Allies" or just "The West with the Western Allies.". But that kind of correctness eludes many people because they still believe in Cold War rhetoric and American exceptionalism.
I can't remember i ever saw that red, white, black one that was just simply with 3 stripes like our actual. Only maybe some forms with an eagle or iron cross in the middle 🤔
Yeah cause the one with the iron cross is even more predominant in certain scenes
German flag isnt Yellow is Golden, is says in the "Grund Gesetz" or translatet in english: "constitution"
"Fun"fact about the image on 2:04
The phrase "Lieb Vaterland magst ruhig sein." ("Dear fatherland, put your mind at rest") comes originally from "Die Wacht am Rhein", an unofficial national and patriotic anthem. Today it is better known as an satiric anti-national and anti-war slogan, because it can also be red as "Dear fatherland, please stay quite".
That black, white and red flag represents the imperial flag. Around 1870, the German Social Democrats wanted to replace that flag with the black, red, gold flag. Which arose from the thoughts of the German resistance fighters against Napoleon in 1815. here the Austrian uniforms with their golden buttons were recolored black and tied with a red sash. that proposal was rejected and introduced in 1919 under the Weimar Republic! I had already heard that the black, white, black flag was adopted by a monastery. So this one is even further back than the German-Austrian War under Frederick the Great.
I'm not pretty sure, so please correct me if i'm wrong, but the flag of the south german federation was Red-Black-Yellow instead of Black-Red-Yellow...
Black like the coal in the revier (district/ area)... Red like the lips of the girls here... Gold ( don`t cal it yellow😅) like the wheat and the beer...
In German it rhymes even better, it's easy to remember
Yellow?! Dude. Gold
Only a little remark but the Emperean Flag was created after the 3 unification wars against th Hanse, than the Austrians and later the French in 1871 where Wilhelm the first got crowned as Emperor. This whole process of unification just happened because of one man.
Otto von Bismarck who was a german noble on the royalist side in the failed german revolution in 1848. The reason Austria wasn´t included in the german empire was because they didn´t want to be under someone. Bavaria or Bayern in german was only included because their ruler got money to build his castle Neuschwanenstein.
I thought he should´ve at least included Bismarck or the rulers at the time simply because everyone was related to another. I mean Tsar Nikolas the second (ruler of russia) was a cousin of Wilhelm the second (ruler of the german Emperor after the death of his Grandfather Wilhelm the first and his Father friedrich the third). The brits and spanic were also included. Everyone came from a little count family in saxony. Even today the british royal House Windsor comes from this House. The current King Charles is a german.
European history is quite complicated i need to say but well history class at least is fun.
Factual error: When the Federal Republic and Democratic Republic flags are side by side, the one on the left is the Federal Service Flag, flown by every federal institution, for example the military. Black Red and Gold is the common flag, that is flown everywhere else. That has not changed.
1:39 Given that Germany's capital is Berlin, which comes from the old Polabian word for swamp, I wouldn't say that Dutch are swamp Germans, they are ocean Germans.
The old flag was red-black-gold, from gunpowder is black, blood is red, golden the flame.
Those being the old colours of the Reichspanier.
The black-red-black is the flag of the Jenaer Ur-Burschenschaft, forbidden 1819, and has nothing to do with the Wars of Liberations. That is also the flag most likely used at the Hambacher Fest.
The only corps having those colours as their uniform was the Lützower Freikorp during 1813-15.
The Deutsche Bund, or German Confederation, was formed after Vienna under the presidency of the Emperor of Austria, a lose reanimation of the Holy Roman Empire. The Norddeutsche Bund was formed under Bismarck nearly 50 years later, that the colours became black-white-red was not the involvement of the Hanseatic Cities. It was either the combination of black-white for Prussia and red-white for Brandenburg, the other explanation is that it incorporated the most common colour for the more Southern States, red.
It's actually a very badly made attempt you watched to explain something of which he understood nothing.
Hallo and guten Tag from Germany
To answer the question, whether the Dutch are swamp Germans or the Germans are mountain Dutch. let's have a look at the names of the countries in German and Dutch.
As always, history has the answer. The Netherlands were at the end of the middle ages part of Burgundy, consisting of the higher lands and the lower lands (Flanders, Artois with part of Picardy, Brabant, Holland, Luxembourg and others) and then came to the House of Habsburg (first Spain, later Austria) as part of the succession, but the name was already set then.
Ethnically the Dutch are descendants of Germanic tribes, how so ever.
Yes some ppl still use the old flag but they get called crazy by some stupid ppl but it gets more and more seldom (i saw it the last time next to a graveyard in Leimen in somones garden)
The German Grundgesetz states in Article 22(2): "The federal flag shall be black-red-gold." (NOT yellow, NOT mustard!) - It's the flag of the federation, but each of the 16 German states (Bundesländer) has it's own flag with it's own history - just like the states of the USA. (I avoid the term "America" because the USA is not "America".)
Funny fact: Look at the colors of the German national soccer team, their outfit colors are traditionally "black and white" - this is the Prussian color scheme!
I've visited Hambach Castle once, which is considered the birthplace of the modern German flag. It still looks pretty much the same on the outside, but the inside is pretty modern and looks more like an old factory that was turned into an event location.
I also didn't notice how the swastika flag is off-center. And I looked at pictures from the Third Reich A LOT while in 9th and 10th grade.
Maybe that's not that obvious to the eye because that flag was mostly hung down from buildings as a banner and not flown like a typical flag. BTW: The iron cross on the Reichskriegsflagge (military flag of the German Empire and Nazi Germany) is also off-center by pretty much the same proportions as the swastika on the Nazi flag.
it´s mainly off center, because it´s the flag used on ships, becaust theswastika can be seen better when it´s located closer to the flagpole...
Classic German/Bavarian Mustard isn't yellow but grey/brown.
There is a mistake. The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) has always had a simple tricolor with black, red and gold as its flag since it was founded in 1949. The emblem in the middle is the federal seal and that only occurs on the federal service flag. This is a flag that can only be used by federal agencies. You sometimes see a version with the federal coat of arms (it looks almost the same) this flag does not officially exist, it is just an artistic interpretation of the federal flag. The federal flag was not changed after reunification.
The american flag uses blue, red and white. That is three colours like about half of all the flags of the world use, at least those of Europe.
At least Germany has a kind of a unique set of colours. Even one which flag designers according to the traditional rules would reject as impossible :)
Aus der Schwärze (schwarz) der Knechtschaft durch blutige (rot) Schlachten ans goldene (gold) Licht der Freiheit.“ ❤