In the Second World War the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940 and annexed it to their expanding Reich. This is well known. But did you know that after the end of the war, the Netherlands tried to annex part of Germany and make it Dutch?
So in this video, what if the Netherlands actually did this? How different would the world look?
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I have friends in Emlichheim, and there they say "Emmelkamp" with a short -a-.
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Offcourse the Netherlands its white collars have been paid off not to do this.
Money doesn't buy us land. The Netherlands has to fuse with Germany to survive. No carbon dioxide problems, housing problems, farming problems. Netherlands should have taken land
Dutch diaspora is 15.6m, diaspora + current citizens would be 33mil.
Didn't the allies (the english if i remember correctly) have a plan to deindustrialise germany that would have lead to widespread starvation. The soviets didn't treat eastern europe that differently with shuffeling borders and peoples around. In the context of that time, the plan wasn't all that crazy
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Super interesting and well researched video on such a wild plan!
BTW the “Ruhrgebiet“is 70-120m under the ocean’s surface
Aurich shoud be Aurik.
dann wäre ich jetzt entweder Niederländer oder Kind von Vertriebenen
Then I would live somewhere else probably if I would exist at all. 😬 But very interesting video because I read about the whole thing for a university presentation few years ago.
As a half Dutch half German, living in the border region, i'm glad the borders are where they are now!
I regurlarly drove through Selfkant. The road was Dutch and left and right was German.
My ideal post-war "Germany" after ww2 (I'm German) :
"Germany. The Failure of a Nation"
Greater Netherlands / Gross-Niederlande / Groot-Nederland
– Netherlands Proper
– Belgium
– Hesse
– Luxemburg
– Lower Saxony / Hamburg-Harburg
– Palatinate
– Rhineland
– Saarland
– Westphalia
Greater Denmark / Gross-Dänemark / Stordanmark
– Denmark Proper
– Schleswig-Holstein
– Hamburg
Greater Swizerland / Gross-Schweiz / Grande-Suisse / Grande Svizzera
– Swiss Cantons
– Austria
– Baden
– Liechtenstein
– Württemberg-Hohenzollern
Prussia / Preussen / Pruska
– Berlin-Brandenburg
– Anhalt
– Mecklenburg
– Pomerania
– Saxony
– Thuringia
100% should have annexed more of Germany. To hell with their feelings, the plan was by no means ridiculous. They took our land and plundered it for all they could. And to let them get of with it all was a disgusting stab in the back to the Dutch who fought for the allied cause through the entire war. The german people stood and picked their nose when their crazy leaders bombed Rotterdam, and caused famine. The suggestion that a demand for compensation at their cost would be "unfair" is laughable, they should be the last people in the world to dictate to anyone about "fair" and "reasonable".
The Netherlands should have reunitied with Belgium and Lexumbourg after the 1 WOrld War. They also should have annexed the belgian Congo. The United Kingdom of Netherlands should also have annexed West germsn territorys after the 1. and the 2. World Wars. The Kingdom of Denmark should also have been anexing Shleswig-Holstein completly. Bavaria should also have gotten its independence back as a socialist peoples Republic and part of the eastern block. Eastern Austria or the entirety of austria shpuld have been a socialist peoples republic and part of the eastern block. North Italy, North Greece, Vichy-France, Catalonia, Baskcountry, Ireland, Finnland North Japan, North Persia and Spain should also have been socialst peoples republics.
Fake taxi ahhahahahah legend
Without the support of the US and the UK, any Dutch plans were a no-go.
Sometimes when you ask for something it's reasonable to start with a high bid and then you meet somewhere in the middle ending up with a good deal. But when your bid is unreasonable high, you're not considered serious and end up with nothing.
I think it would be very reasonable if the Netherlands had at least got something after the losses. Almost all neighbouring countries got something. The area around Emmerich – Kleve – Goch would have provided a better geographical shape with quite some area but not too much inhabitants. But France, UK, US and SU didn't care. They dropped more bombs in the Netherlands than the Germans anyway. So like most small European countries it was just considered collateral damage and the four big countries went away with all the trophies.
😂, wonderful idea..
We would had more of this strange Dutch fast food and maybe we wouldn't have needed this weird green party now to legalize weed.
Really this is the best idea I heard today 🤣
0:05 fake taxi
At 2:06 Mönchengladbach, which name until 1963 was Münchengladbach is written wrong with another "g". And at 3:33 you say, that Tüddern came back to Germany in 1960, but it was in 1963, when several annexed municipalities were given to the FRG 🇩🇪.
Looking at the potential dutch province of "saksen" – as if having sachsen, sachsen-anhalt and niedersachsen wasnt already complicated enough lol
They could have at least had the decency to give it a more precise name (i vote for neder-neder-saksen)
Only read the title:
😂😂the Allies would have kicked us out again
my grandpa told stories on how the soldiers were protecting our border on bicycles up to the point where they got the message of our surrender, completely missing the message that the invasion had even begun. I now imagine those 12 soldiers going into germany on those cycles
either way, good thing we didn't, in this timeline I couldn't cycle over the border to get cheap cigarettes
Wouldn't Vogts, Bonhof and Overath have been deported and the Netherlands would have get their asses kicked anyways?😉
Bro why would they do that
As it is Holland is more or less a German dominion. Maybe German influence would be even stronger with all the new citizens, or maybe western Germany would have folded and be annexed by Czech Poland and other countries
It could easily have worked tbh
Man, I never knew we had so much questionable reasoning and ethics shortly after WW2. I wish I could ask my grandfather what he thought of the situation back then.
As a F1 fan: The National Anthem at the end was uncalled for!
It would’ve honestly been better if the Dutch government at the time pursued for Dutchification instead of mass expulsion, the Allie’s would’ve probably be more favorable and now the country would be stronger
I don't see why the idea of kicking the germans out would be controversial, after all, the Netherlands supported the expulsion of palestinians from Palestine.
Aachen is pretty much Dutch nowadays, so the Dutchbros won anyways 😂 (this is a joke)
A joke surely as they didn't have an army to take any of it as they were totally dependent on the US , UK and Canadian forces to get liberated themselves
what if after ww2 and the lowlands were liberated instead of becoming three independent states.. the benelux would decide to become one country once again. out of a mutual intrest for savety
3:12 why is the first g exististing in Mönchengladbach?