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    The concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire, although the Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were established along the Rhine. Following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks conquered the other West Germanic tribes. When the Frankish Empire was divided among Charles the Great’s heirs in 843, the eastern part became East Francia, and later Kingdom of Germany. In 962, Otto I became the first Holy Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the medieval German state.

    During the High Middle Ages, the Hanseatic League, dominated by German port cities, established itself along the Baltic and North Seas. The development of a crusading element within German Christendom led to the State of the Teutonic Order along the Baltic coast in what would later become Prussia. In the Investiture Controversy, the German Emperors resisted Catholic Church authority. In the Late Middle Ages, the regional dukes, princes, and bishops gained power at the expense of the emperors. Martin Luther led the Protestant Reformation within the Catholic Church after 1517, as the northern and eastern states became Protestant, while most of the southern and western states remained Catholic. The Thirty Years’ War, a civil war from 1618 to 1648 brought tremendous destruction to the Holy Roman Empire. The estates of the empire attained great autonomy in the Peace of Westphalia, the most important being Austria, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony. With the Napoleonic Wars, feudalism fell away and the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved in 1806. Napoleon established the Confederation of the Rhine as a German puppet state, but after the French defeat, the German Confederation was established under Austrian presidency. The German revolutions of 1848–1849 failed but the Industrial Revolution modernized the German economy, leading to rapid urban growth and the emergence of the socialist movement. Prussia, with its capital Berlin, grew in power. German universities became world-class centres for science and humanities, while music and art flourished. The unification of Germany was achieved under the leadership of the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck with the formation of the German Empire in 1871. The new Reichstag, an elected parliament, had only a limited role in the imperial government. Germany joined the other powers in colonial expansion in Africa and the Pacific.

    By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain’s while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its borders. The German Revolution of 1918–1919 ended the German Empire with the abdication of Wilhelm II and established the Weimar Republic, an ultimately unstable parliamentary democracy. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, used the economic hardships of the Great Depression along with popular resentment over the terms imposed on Germany at the end of World War I to establish a totalitarian regime. Germany quickly remilitarized, annexed its German-speaking neighbours and invaded Poland, triggering World War II. By 1944, the German Army was pushed back on all fronts until finally collapsing in May 1945. Under occupation by the Allies, denazification efforts took place, large populations under former German-occupied territories were displaced, German territories were split up by the victorious powers and in the east annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union. Germany spent the entirety of the Cold War era divided into the NATO-aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact-aligned East Germany.

    In 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened, the Eastern Bloc collapsed, and East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone and remains one of the economic powerhouses on the continent.

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    2. @Talbarami on

      so so so crazy you show the German flag from the 19th cencery as if it has yellow color like the flag they have today.
      I have no idea why doing such a fake disturbing change to history by replacing the white with the yellow. (sirca 17:00)

      It also really bad photoshoped… these old 19th pictures.

    5. @675Marcelo on

      Napoleon destroyed what was left of the Christian world, Bismarck began what could have been a prosperous and stable Germany, and Hitler finished it off the global christianity for good.

      The escape from Portugal to Brazil, creating the Kingdom of Brazil in 1808, was the only good thing that came out of the Napoleonic Wars, because Dom João VI fled from France, I'm not going to judge whether this was right or wrong; the fact is that it worked. Whether the man was cowardly or intelligent, I'll leave that for intellectuals to judge.. The fact is… Brazil became one of the most prosperous governments in the world from 1815 until 1898, until the republic destroyed what Dom Pedro II (Dom João VI nephew) had built, The Brazilian empire was brilliant, producing intellectuals like Joaquim de Nabuco, Machado de Assis and Euclides da Cunha, rulers like José Bonifácio, and Dom Pedro II himself, who was considered by many to be the greatest ruler of the 19th century.
      Brazil was not culturally prepared to make a republic work, England had been prepared for that since John Locke, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, etc. The United States had an intellectual and educational cultural structure to make the republic work; the mistake of countries around the world that cannot make republics work is this, it is an unfortunate situation, sadly. If you come to Brazil, you see a range of intellectuals like Luís António Verney, Father Manuel da Nóbrega, and more recently Olavo de Carvalho, all Catholics, detached from British conservatism (coming from an extremely Protestant country, as well as a Protestant culture), but closer to an aristocratic Catholic monarchy (Coming from Portugal, a country that is extremely Catholic in its essence, as is its culture).. How can you build a Brazilian liberal/conserservative republic with that? It makes no sense at all; people are crazy.
      My point is, if you're implementing a political order system, just use one that works for you, And don't give in to global pressure regarding what's currently trending..

    13. @NewlandExplorer on

      Great reportage but hey you have a very harsh accent!!! Difficult to understand the tone of your voice unfortunately I must say that.
      But you made a great great great educative video.
      Many thanks
      I'll thumb you up 😊

    14. @metanoian965 on

      Swiss Order of St Mary – Teutonic Knights – operated German peasant settlements in Baltics
      A land grabbing organisation for the Vatican. Basically pirates with license from a Pope.
      German Catholic church promoted movement of German peasants and gen O'Cide and expulsions of Slavic tribes East of the Elbe River & in Bohemia / Moravia.
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      Black Death – 1346 AD – 1353 AD all of Germany _ _ _ Not in Poland.
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      1350 AD – 1450 AD – 'Little Ice Age'
      Severe cold weather. Rains / floods / shorter growing seasons.
      Crop failures / food shortages / Social disfunction
      Labor shortages / old order drastic change / migration

    17. @ashimshome2004 on

      I am a Bengali speaking Indian. I observed all Europeans are similar looking. I don't see any difference between Englishmen, Germans and Russians. They are similar looking people. In our country, in North Eastern part many Sino- Tibetan and Indo- Burmon languages are spoken. In South India many Dravidian languages are spoken. People varies from one location to another location. We can easily identify who is from Northern India or North East. Europeans don't have variation. All Europeans are similar looking.

    21. @ritaabc581 on

      What if someone humiliates and mocks their women? That's what their prejudiced "men" do to women from other countries. So disappointed in that "european" nation…

    30. @cashiskingCineLover on

      Great Channel, amazing videos. I found your channel 2 days ago and have been glued to it ever since. I have two requests: Make a video on the whole history of Bulgaria(my homeland). And from the western european powers I am really interested in the whole history of Switzerland.

    34. @george.carlin on

      It was omitted in this video but we all should remember the fact that Hitler and Stalin planned attack on Poland together. Russia was ally of Germany before WW2. After that Stalin betrayed his buddy and turned 180. West also made a big mistake in Yalta allowing Russia to keep many Eastern Europe countries occupied. That actually a result of the current attack on Ukraine that wonts to be with EU and not with Russia.

    37. @smoothkaracho9392 on

      Augsburg isn't even mentioned, yet it's one of the oldest cities and naturally played a role for the Romans, being the largest Roman settlement in southern Germany, covering approximately 100 hectares. The city was a central administrative, commercial, and military base.

    45. @Rick2010100 on

      The German Emperor was not as powerless as is often claimed. Anyone who opposed the Emperor was deposed, their assets nationalized, and their noble status revoked. The rights of local princes and dukes were very limited.

      Imperial Free Cities meant that these cities bore the Emperor's coat of arms and were subject only to him directly, not to any local duke. Since the Emperor was usually far away and primarily interested in taxes, these cities enjoyed considerable freedom.

    47. @vukaki771 on

      The germans should be grateful to the Poles, Russians, Hungarians, Croats and other Europeans who fought Mongols and Ottomans and prevented the spilling of the conflict to the Reich.

      This enabled the germans to rise.

      Prussia was a polish vassal state and the russians could have ended the prussian state at its infancy. Hardly that german state would be born.

      The Poles saved Vienna, a gateway to Bavaria, from the Turks.

      Croats and Hungarians held the Ottomans at their borders.

      And what did the germans do?

      They had their policy of "Drang nach Osten" and took east european teritories of Polish-Lithuanian Commenwealth.

      In the previous century they fought Russia in two world wars. Lost both of them.

      Austrian painter didnt accept that, he hated Slavs and Jews.

      The policies of his ideology are still felt in Europe.

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