Dissolution of Austria : Treaty of Saint-Germain

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extra Information & Sometimes Corrections if Needed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1:03 1910 Austrian Census www.anno.onb.ac.at/ost.htm 1910 Hungarian census results. library.hungaricana.hu/hu/view/NEDA_1910_01/?pg=21… 1:06 By differently I mean there where slightly different questions on the two census resulting in a slightly different answers. Also the Hungarian census defined every language as separate while the Austrian census grouped a lot of languages like Serbian Croatian, Slovak Czech, Ukrainian Rusyn, together. 1:07 Although to be fare the censuses conducted after the war have a plethora of their own problems of how they where conducted and administers so it's really hard to define exactly the numbers, but stating that due to all these census problems the ethnic make up of the empire can't be defined is false. 2:39 As stated in the video I am aware that Yugoslavia was at this point called the Kingdom of Slovene Croats and Serbs but that's too long to say every time I mention the country hence I call it Yugoslavia for simplicity's sake. 5:21 In this case I mean the lands of the Bohemian Crown within the Austro-Hungarian kingdom (and a bit of Germany) not the whole historic lands with Silesia and Saxony, nor the Bohemian lands as defined by Austrian internal divisions which put Czech Silesia and Moravia separately. 6:36 The Frýdek-Místek south of Tesin should actually be Třinec I just forgot the change the name. 6:37 Czechoslovakia also gained land North West of Novi Bohumin but this was taken from Germany not Poland hence I forgot about it and didn't show Czechoslovakia controlling that land on the map. 7:34 "Polish Majority" lands, it does not mean there where no Slovaks living there, plus this entire area is complicated. For one the 1910 Hungarian census did not have Polish as a choice so many people in those areas opted to say "Slovak" being their native language as that was the closest language to what they spoke which was a Western Slavic dialect between Slovak and Polish. Whether this language was closer to Polish or Slovak is up to a linguistic debate and really doesn't matter because what matters is if the people thought of themselves as Polish or Slovak. Now many of these people never really thought about it seeing themselves as just the subjects of the AH so asking one of them at that time "what they are?" may have been very confusing to them. However, what is interesting is that in those areas in the 1921 and 1931 Polish censuses Slovak is stated to be only about 7% (in the 1921 census) so it seems like the people there did come to think of themselves as Polish if they didn't think of themselves as Polish already. 9:33 Help from not just Poland but also the Polish Liquidation Comity however both of these political entities had the same goal they just didn't become united until 1919 hence I count them together in the video. 10:54 I did not mean to say February 30th in the video (no such date exists) I just meant the last day of February which was February 28th as the Ukrainians than declined the treaty 1st of March. Also I wrote under the picture of the general 25th of February and it should have been 28th of February so another mistake I made there. 10:04 How I translated the amount of money being destroyed/looted to today's money was through the Geary–Khamis dollar. 10:58 General Joseph Barthélemy 25th of February 1919. It is a different Joseph Barthélemy than the one involved with the Vichy government in WW2. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Joseph_Barth%C3%A9lemy 15:29 The way the plebiscite was held in Carinthia was a bit special because the whole area didn't vote at once. The province was divided in two zones A and B. With A being the southern part of Carinthia the one showed on the map to have a Slovenian majority. Only after the vote succeeded in this area would a vote be followed up in the Zone B which was the rest of Carinthia and had a largely German-Austrian majority. The plebiscite results I talked about in the video are the ones from Zone A where the majority population was Slovenian but as I sad half of them decided to stay with Austria meaning no follow up vote in Zone B was necessary to be held. 19:13 About the Vote in Sopron. Voters from the interior of Hungary where mobilized to vote on behalf of staying in Hungary and some even arrived to the city but the Italians appointed as the none-partial "referees" predicted this and therefore they made specific rules for the plebiscite. Voting could be done only by "All citizens who were twenty years old on January 1, 1921, were born in the city or were responsible, or were resident in the voting area before January 1, 1921" therefore there is no evidence of the actual people brought in from Hungary ever voting in the plebiscite as they couldn't. There was a fierce propaganda battle between Hungary and Austria and Hungarian law enforcement in the city did block Austrian propaganda letters and shipments from coming into the city. They also actively disbanded any pro Austrian demonstrations, plus university students within the city which were mostly German were not allowed to vote (since they weren't counted as "residence"), but voting of Hungarians that were brought in from outside even though tried never actually happened. Video scripts with all my sources are available for free on my Patreon- www.patreon.com/mlase

Man, post-WW1 Europe was even more chaotic than during WW1 itself.

Alright, already 2 minutes in and the man has just created an ethnicity map for the austro hungarian empire. This is really damn high quality content

Creating an entire ethnicity map has got to be the most effort I’ve seen in a yt video in a long long time

My great grandpa served was a cavalryman in the Austro Hungarian and served in the eastern front as an Uhlan from the beginning of the war till his death in 1916. His brother survived the entire war and saw action in both Caporetto and Vittorio Veneto

this is one of the most well researched history video on youtube

I have been living in Burgenland for most of my life and roughly half the stuff about the Burgenland was completely new to me. A shocking testament on how much of history is actually taught in school. Thank you for this and all the other great videos!

This whole event is just a mess tbh. Thanks for making it understandable!

I feel bad for the WUPR. The dude spat straight facts and they told him to get boned, then they got annexed

Entente: Every ethinic group shall have the habilita to self determine itself Germans: Can we self determine and united? Entente: no

Here you can see the difficulties Austria had to face during the first WW. While germany was playing on hardened difficulty, austria was playing on nearly the same difficulty but had the game also in a different language, bc all their soldiers were speaking another one.

18:00 "Hungary was....having a thing..." Ominous spiky red area with hammer and sickle appears. 18:05 Allies: you are Austrian now City of Sorpon: How about no?

Watching this as an austrian just hurts. Especially the 3 seconds you talked about south tyrol at least the biggest pain was dealt with quickly.

I feel like I don't deserve this much high quality content for free

Wow the South-Tyrol annexation went very smooth considering what happened in other areas during this transitional period, and yet still to this day the Provinces of Trento and Bozen have very large autonomy and in the latter they basically speak German everywhere except for the city of Bozen and the southern parts of the province. Road signs and official documents are also bi-lingual.

I find St. Germain dissolves well with vodka.

That breakdown of the 1910 census was insanely detailed. I wish people broken down modern politics in that detailed of a fashion some of the time.

Great video, I never heard about pogrom in Lvov, in Poland we only learn about difficult fights ( in which also young teenagers took part) with Ukrainians over the city.

apolgy for bad english where were u when austria-hungary die i was at the isonzo fighting for the 6324327th time when telegram is sent "austria-hungary is kil" "no"

I really liked the Austro-Hungarian empire, the borders, the wild history behind the Habsburg and so on. I loved the empire overall