HISTORY OF GERMANY SUPER QUICKLY

Germany is a country that probably doesn't need an introduction German nation as first centuries been at the heart of European politics and culture and has brought a sum of years most famous and influential fairs like Beethoven Nietzsche Luther BA Einstein and embackment but also more controversial individuals like the Nazis or Karl Marx from fighting against the Romans to being the dominant nation within the Holy Roman Empire to unifying and becoming one of the main forces in both world wars Germany has undisputedly made a name for itself but you know the color fame or infamy even now Germany is one of the world's most prosperous nations and although recent controversy surrounding multiculturalism European projects and record low approval ratings of Angela Merkel seem to be driving the country apart the Germans are still soft the wealthiest people on the planet in this video I will cover the history of Germany from the early beginnings to the modern era.

we now know much about the early history of the Germans or any Germanic peoples for that matter all that we know comes from the perspective of the Romans who at the time future Germans as barbaric also - we know that they said these traumatic peoples were in no way unified although the languages and customs must have been related in some way they were separate tribes only united by a common enemy the Romans one such moment where different Germanic tribes united against the Roman Empire was in 980 when the risky marci chatty black Teddy Josie and she calmly leta Romans decisively at the toy tobik forests these results in Romans halting their attempt to conquer a Germanic lands east of the Rhine River which they refer to as muck nagaru Manya this really splits between the Germanic peoples west of the Rhine River and east of it one example of this is the Germanic people west of the Rhine gradually became Christian from the reign of Constantine the first on Worst.

whilst the Germanic people on the East remains mostly pagan and so much later in the 4th century the Huns invaded the non Roman part of the Germanic lands which launched what is now known as the migration period were at least a hundred fifty thousand people from several tribes of which mainly Germanic started invading and settling lands all over the Roman Empire this would eventually lead to the fall of Rome in 476 one of these the Franks would eventually conquer most of goal in the West and the Clovis the first close was also the first Frankish leader to be baptized as a Roman Catholic rather than an Germanic pagan from his reign onwards Christian missionaries who travel all over the Germanic lands attempting to convert the still largely pagan population while the Frankish Kingdom also expanded into burgundy and Swabia in 768 a certain somebody called Charles became the king of the Franks.

and during his reign he greatly expanded the range of the Frankish Empire for the first time all Western many people were united within one Empire this man was called Charlemagne or Charles the great this empire wouldn't last for very long though Charlemagne's grandchildren partitioned the empire into three parts in 843 one of these parks east Frankia is usually considered to be the predecessor of Germany in 936 although the first crowned as king of Germany the kingdom of Germany being a kingdom within the Holy Roman Empire or which he would also become emperor along with Italy Bohemia and burgundy although those weren't kingdoms yet at the time oh and also all of these kingdoms were made up of tribal duchies not to be confused with the tribal duchy of much earlier end up in the centuries.

following the holy roman empire would become more and more complicated and shown on this bed of blog by allah by yeah I'm sorry for not animating this myself but I think you understand why let's not talk about all the details of the Holy Roman Empire in its kingdoms that she's specifics electorates and whatnot and she's focused on the general history of the German-speaking part of this : code Empire during the age of the Crusades German religious orders were established most family of which being the Teutonic order which still exists to this day although as kind of lost his purpose of fulfilling the goal of Christianizing the baltics the cephalic knights also kick-started the german eastward expansion also known as aussie gloom this is the name given to the medieval German settlements of areas east of the Holy Roman Empire this created the German diaspora from Estonia in the north to Slovenia in the south.

and will be used in the 20th century as a justification by the Nazis for the territorial claims in Central and Eastern Europe then around 1350 the Black Death hit Europe this play kills an estimated 30 to 60 percent of your population it was more like 20% in Germany this was one of the most devastating pandemics in world history also in the Middle Ages the Hanseatic League was established in an orphaned German city of Lubeck dancy ethically goes business alliance of trading cities which dominated trade in the Baltic for a full century and had its own legal system spanning from London England the North corals in Russia something which happened during about the same time as the Hanseatic elites most successful years was the Western schism where the Catholic Church split temporarily in two and then later free parts because of multiple people claiming the title of Pope at the same time in a century after this.

the German Habsburg family would also see their rise to power they already controlled most of the southeast of the Holy Roman Empire namely the German Austria and Sudetenland but also the Slovak Bohemia Moravia and Slovenia but that would also almost constantly be a Habsburg on the throne of the Holy Roman Empire from 1438 up until 1806 in 1517 Martin Luther published 95 theses in which he exposed corruption in the Catholic Church they sparked a Reformation and a Protestant church splitting from the Catholic Church although Luther never intended to make the church split he simply wanted reforms Luther also translated the Bible to German.

so regular people will be able to read it all while being officially outlawed as a diet of worms also in 1524 the German peasants were broke outs which was partly sparked by the Reformation at least a hundred thousand rebelling peasants were slaughtered by the elite then in 1608 the Protestant Union was formed and one year later the Catholic League was also created these two would eventually fall into civil war which would later grow to be the 30 Years War of the further escalation this is a complicated war and I would suggest you watch a video specifically focused on this one topic though you need to know is that it originally started as a religious civil war inside the Holy Roman Empire but quickly escalated into becoming a continent-wide.

and more political than religious war during this war the population of the Holy Roman Empire dropped from 16 to 10 million people with most casualties being in the German and bohemian lands of the Empire it would take many years for the German people to recover after the 30th war and also before that the German nation had become a center of culture and science the translation of the bio by Luther had helped the standardization of the German language greatly and astronomers Copernicus and Kepler became some of the most influential figures during the Scientific Revolution that existed in Europe during the 17th century then during the 18th century the Enlightenment started to spread around Europe and Germany was far from unaffected by this German writers like Christian Wolff but German on the map.

as the philosophic language of the modern era Prussia became increasingly politically enlightened and the German nation produced composers like Bach Haydn Mozart and Beethoven I know Mozart is Austrian but during the 18th century Austria was still seen as undisputedly German during this time the German nation was still split up into multiple parts and Austria would only become the only one to not become part of Germany after German unification and would only really become seen as its own nation after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire then west of Germany the French Revolution happens which would eventually lead to the rise of Napoleon will quickly try to conquer Europe.

and originally succeeded in doing so until the famous field invasion of Russia in the winter of 1812 which led to his first defeat his second defeat being advisor lo of the famously escaping the island of Elba and having a second go at conquering Europe after the Congress of Vienna the holy roman empire was disbanded and the internal borders were greatly simplified all german-speaking parts of the former Empire were made part of the German Confederation which it had always exactly match up with country borders for example Prussia and Austria were both not fully inside the German Confederation and the Confederation also owned the limber and Luke Sandburg parts of the Netherlands during the nineteenth century the population of Germany increased greatly from 21 million to 34 million in only fifty years this coincided with the rapid industrialization in most German states but mostly in Prussia and it's wear of influence his rapid industrialization would greatly help the process of unification into one German state which would later happen if you're interested as to why it was pressure that unified Germany in Austria I would recommend this video by brain for breakfast then a national uprising in 1848 and even more of horizon nationalism in the two decades following rule II to the formation of a federal state got a North German Confederation under the leadership of Prussia this federal state was a result of Prussia winning the austro-prussian war where the ostridge along with their mostly.

South German allies fought against oppressions along with their mostly North German allies then echo officially the North German Confederation went to war with France on the side of the North German Confederation also fought the loss three of the four lost remaining independent German states Baden Bavaria and volson Berg this were put all Germans except for Austria against a common enemy which would lead to the formation of the German Reich on the 18th of January in 1871 in a recently conquered Palace of Versailles in France after signing the peace deal with the French they also an axe else Oslo tiling Germany then industrialized even faster they became the leader in steel production in a rural area became very urbanized very quickly they also had a naval race for Britain over who be the world leader on the sea they also acquired some colonies and hosted the Berlin conference which started the Scramble for Africa then World War one happened that allowed himself with Austria-Hungary some years earlier.

and joined the war on their sides after Austria-Hungary and started the invasion of France didn't go as smoothly as the four decades prior though the German troops were halted by the French divisions and Belgian resistance quickly leading the war into a bloody trench warfare at the same time the Eastern Front was much more successful his big loss on the Russian side partly led to the Russian Revolution which result in the Bolsheviks taking power in Russia and the signing a peace deal with the Germans this made it possible for the Germans to focus all their attention on the Western Front but because of logistic problems and a sudden reinforcement because the United States joined in the war the Germans still lost and the Treaty of Versailles was written this treaty was horrendous for Germany they have to give up much of the territory to France Belgium Denmark Lithuania and Poland and also pay huge sums of money to the Allies most notably the French they also had huge restrictions on how big the army was allowed to be Germany became a republic and was absolutely devastated by the peace terms dictated to them by the French this combined with hyperinflation and a great economic depression was a perfect recipe for political unrest something both the Communists and fascists really wanted to use to get to power turns out the vestige managed to win.

just slightly more souls we all know what happened during World War two of the twelve years of Nazi rule and millions of deaths all around the globe because of war and genocide Germany was absolutely devastated for the second time his beautiful cities in ruin its population greatly reduced and no one having any idea what the future would hold some people want to remove the German nation from the face of the earth completely in a holocaust like way always wanted to be partitioned into many small parts again so it could never become as powerful again in reality he did partition just not into many parts only for actually a Soviet American British and French swap influence which would later become the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany also known as East and West Germany or East Germany went from being a fascist dictatorship becoming a communist dictatorship West Germany enjoyed great growth and growing free in many years from 1945 onwards the economy started booming and Germany became one of the most prosperous nations in the world this is known as the vicious wound off' or an English economic miracle skipping over some Cold War history Germany became unified again in 1990 coinciding with the end of communism and the Cold War then in 2005 Angela Merkel became the Chancellor of Germany.

and has been in that position ever since she's now often seen as the de facto leader of the European Union and is often credited with all the blame caused by the disaster that is the European migrant crisis Germany is now in an important moment in his history more people are standing up for the national identity and turning against medical and the mass immigration that has made Germans minorities in their major cities a counter movement is on the rise America is seeing record low approval ratings is especially important because Germany's at the heart of the European project and if a year skeptic party rises to power in Germany the entire project is at risk which is here a fantastic or terrible thing depending on your views on the EU only the future will tell what is about to happen to Germany and what do they want to keep the national identity or continue to become an increasingly multicultural country without an identity of its own.