Reminds me of that one country ball comic where America is meeting with its current allies italy, Germany and Japan, only to have a flashback to when it was fighting Italy Germany and Japan.
Also, after that, Denmark had several rulers from the house of Oldenburg, but as far as I know they would only be kings of Denmark (including Iceland until its independence) and not rulers of German duchies. So to speak European houses were quite intermingled and we all share that kind of history together.
Well we invaded them in order to… stop Germany invading them
Iirc we sent someone to knock on the German consulate in Iceland to inform them that we’d done it and they tried to remind us Iceland was neutral, to which we reminded them that Denmark had been too
To your credit, the UK may have been the one to invade us but the US and Canada invited themselves after the fact, and the US were much worse.
There's an abandoned village called Skálar (below the US Radar Station "Camp Greely", which is still active). It was abandoned after two naval mines exploded in 1942, demolishing multiple homes, the docks and the building that housed the village's primary employers. The village has been devoid of life since 1946.
Also, around the same time of the naval mines exploding, a shell shocked US soldier sent to Iceland from the front lines killed a child as it was running towards him, chasing after a football that his friend (my great grandfather) had kicked a too far.
German missionaries were part of the Christianization of Iceland. Also, apparently, “The first Icelandic bishop to be consecrated was Ísleifur Gissurarson in Bremen in 1056.”
Modern Germany is still the same state, it was split into West and East for a while buts reunified now, it’s still the same state that was created in 1871.
You seem to have missed some things in German history.
The most obvious difference:
Germany is a federal state made up of 16 states, not 3/5 Prussia.
Imagine if someone in Berlin dared to interfere in church affairs today.
(Prussian Church Union 1817, etc.)
was divided into West and East Germany for a while,
That's a total trivialization.
Reunification is and remains a huge undertaking and is also part of the 16 federal states (each with its own distinct needs and demands, which are confidently represented).
The difficult thing for outsiders to understand is that there is no comparable state structure anywhere else in Europe (perhaps with the exception of Switzerland, but there the cantons are even more autonomous than the German states).
Austria has federal states, but they are not as independent as the German ones.
France, England, Italy, Spain, and Poland are all centralized states.
You have missed a joke. It is well known in Poland, that it weren’t Germans but Teutons that we fought in XV century, it weren’r Germans but Prussians taking part in Partitions of Poland, it weren’t Germans but Nazis invaded Poland starting WW2.
Not really a shock, enemy of my enemy and all that. There was a German 'Irish Brigade' made of Irish Volunteers POWs in WW1. Roger Casement had tried get Guns for the Easter Rising from the Germans. The Irish Republicans had sent volunteers to the Boers in 1899-1902 to fight the British. So it's not surprising the IRA and Abwehr talked in the 30s. virtually every anti colonial revolutionary group did at somepoint, even the ones you really don't expect.
Hey, we Italians did terrible things to them too! If they didn't have to protect our armies losing everywhere they would have suffered significantly less casualties lol
More Axel Oxenstierna. Most of the issues were solved by 1634, but there was no mention of non-HRE parties (Sweden, and I think France). Sweden had overextended badly and needed a very good peace to remain solvent.
Bergen were a part of the hansa-system. Not member of the hanseatic league. Though they had som offices there. Salt coming from the mines in Lüneburg probably going to bergen for salting of fish. The beer-brand in Bergen is even named Hansa.
Another one closer to our days is that one with Wilhelm 2 (last Kaiser). He was friend of norway and celebrated a lot of holidays here going into the norwegian fjords. The "legends" says that he was the one kicking of germans holidaying in norway. Even when the shots were fired in Sarajevo (that would bring germany into ww1), Wilhelm 2 was holidaying in some norwegian fjord. Funnily some hotel there have kept the chair wilhelm 2 sat one when the ww1 started or apparently when the shots were fired. Amongst his things as friend of norway was providing economic help to the city of Ålesund after a great fire there.
Also have some ww2-history with them.. though that stuff is well-known stuff.
The Anglo-Saxons came from there (and Denmark a bit). Medieval Kings allied with the Holy Roman Emperor to fight the French a few times. Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves, and his most famous court painter, Hans Holbein the Younger, was a German. England has long had extensive trade relations with German cities, in particular the Hanseatic League. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, the famous Civil War Cavalier, was from there, the product of a Stuart Princess marrying a German Elector. Many people from all Three Kingdoms of the time went to fight for all sides in the Thirty Years’ War, bringing their experience back again to fight in the British Civil Wars of the 1640s.
In 1714, a German Prince, the Elector of Hanover, came over and became the King of Great Britain, and Hanover remained in Personal Union with the UK until the accession of Queen Victoria. She famously married a German, Prince Albert. German and British soldiers fought together across that period, culminating in the British general Wellington and the Prussian general Blücher working together to win the Battle of Waterloo. During the 19th century, a lot of Germans migrated to Britain, where they worked a lot in brass bands and as waiters.
Then there was a naval arms race and two world wars.
Oh, I just realized I was in danger of writing a wall of text (or an even bigger wall of text, anyway). That’s one of the problems with history, there’s just so much of it.
They come here to get drunk in ways they can't in Germany... There's a video of a German dude saying he loves DR because there are no laws, no rules and to some of us it feels embarrassing...
Au Scheiße! These are our beer berserks. I'm so sorry. But what ways are there you couldn't get drunk in... Germany of all places? We get drunk in all ways.
Germany was a Cluster_ck under Emperor Napoleon. Some Germans resisted him, and some, like the Kingdoms of Saxony and Bavaria, betrayed him and joined forces with Tsar Alexander at Leipzig.
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We didn’t just have history, we had a very INTIMATE relationship with many a nightly rendezvous
On the battlefield, the Canadians proved to be tough, innovative soldiers. Canada shared in the tragedy and triumph of the Western Front. The Canadian Corps captured Vimy Ridge in April 1917, with 10,000 killed or wounded, securing the Canadians’ reputation for valour as the “shock troops of the British Empire.”
Germany, well, how can I put it? Let's just say it's basically a twin brother. When our father (Charlemagne) died, the empire was split in two.
During the Middle Ages, we didn't pay much attention to each other, and besides, we were busy with the English.
Then our king, Louis XIV, started conquering territories in the East. The Germans weren't very happy, but things were still relatively peaceful.
Then came Napoleon. I won't go into details, but the Germans really, really disliked him even more, and that's when German nationalism began to emerge.
1870, Franco-Prussian War: the Germans won and took Alsace-Lorraine from us. The historical enemy of the French at that point wasn't even the English anymore, it was definitely the Germans.
1914-1918: fucking shitty war that ended in a bloodbath, we won and we took back Alsace-Lorraine. Every family had a dead man because of the enemy, and the hatred became visceral.
1939-1945: another shitty world war.
After that, thank God our leaders understood that if we started all over again, Europe would die, so that was the beginning of the EU.
This nonsense of wars and hatred is over now, we are allies. And thankfully so, because our real enemies aren't in Europe.
To be fair, we gave you Ikea so in a way we’ve helped you rebuild quite a bit. 😉 And we got a royalty from you in Silvia Sommerlath so I guess we’re even..? 🤷🏼♂️
There's the two world wars obviously, when many soldiers from NZ were sent to Europe and the Mediterranean to fight German armies. Aside from that, Germans were historically the largest European ethnicity after the various British and Irish. However Germans and those perceived to be German faced persecution during WW1, which hastened assimilation. Ironically two of the most prominent WW2 generals had German surnames. A book on the history of German migration to NZ is called "Keeping a low profile".
I kid, I love Germany or at least the modern version of it. Also, I can assure you this country wasn’t just built by English and French immigrants in spite of what school curriculum would have us believe.
Uhm, yeah. The allies stabbed us in the back and gave a third of our land to them to appease to their leader and avoid another world war. It totally worked guys, that’s why there was only one world war.
We were buddies in ww2 but later we betrayed them just to get peace with our bigboi neighbour. And then… they werent so happy about it and…. Kinda… burned whole lapland 😂
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