The German Colonial Empire
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Published 2020-11-06
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All Comments (21)
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Which other colonial empire do you want videos on? CLARIFICATION : The map on the thumbnail and beginning of the video (plus a couple times throughout it) is wrong guys, sorry! I used an interwar map with Danzig connecting West-Prussia to Germany. It should also have Memel, Alsace-Lorraine, and some more territory. Poland was also not independent at this time and the Austro-Hungarian Empire existed.
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I’m from Qingdao (Tsingtao), the German buildings are still very well preserved. When I was little I was living in one of them and I literally couldn’t believe other Chinese cities don’t have German architectures! They were so normal to me that I didn’t even notice how beautiful they are until I left my hometown.
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Mittelafrika intensifies
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2:14 Venezuela was called "Little Venice" because an early explorer saw the natives living in silt houses which reminded him of Venice
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German empire: exists WWI allies: And I took that
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Ok Germany you can have a colony, just don’t do anything stupid Germany: El dorado
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Italian colonial empire be like: "we have stuff" points to desert "And we have other stuff" points to mountainous desert
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Denmark: Oh we have colonies! Greenland and Iceland: Empty snow noises
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Bonus fact; the city of Kitchener in Canada was known as Berlin until 1916. Due to the large amount of Germans who migrated there. The capital of North Dakota is Bismarck; same reason.
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It was called Little Venice (Klein-Venedig) because the local indigenous peoples built settlements with canals, resembling Venice. In fact, Venezuela means Little Venice in a very old Spanish form.
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2:18 "Venezuela" is literally "Little Venice" in Spanish
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One German colonial fact: Germany did attempt to and wanted acquire Philippines, but was cut short due to America annexing it after the treaty of Paris post Spanish-American war
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bismark sea is next to australia Germany : and it marks my colonial empire
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I like the fact that you are Portuguese because you never forget to mention Portugal. Most do, sadly so.
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There is still a not insignificant German population in Namibia.
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Melhor momento é quando dizes palavras portuguesas, uma pessoa á espera de um sotaque inglês mas depois sai aquele português de Portugal, sou quase sempre apanhado desprevenido. Continua o bom trabalho. Não sei se preferes os comentários em inglês mas prontos. Abraço!
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Our mind either jump to Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, or the Netherlands History nerds: Germany and Italy
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As a southern brazilian, I can tell for sure that the towns founded by the german and italian immigrants are among the gorgeous ones in Brazil.
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Whew, as a Bavarian, I've never heard of this colonial attempt, although I heard of the other 3 attempts by the other states before the unification... Imagine it would have been successful & New York would have been called Neu München for a short time ...
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Germany! Yay
