Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "What Were the 1st and 2nd Reichs?" video.
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As a german i do not agree with all facts of this video. At first, we do not know in which year Germany started! Was it in 843(?) when the carolingian empire was divided , and one part became the east franconian empire? Was it in 911 when the last east franconian king of the carolingian family ( Ludwig, called ,the child') died? Was it in 919 when the first non-frankonian king Heinrich (Henry), the duke of saxony was elected as king (the king between Ludwig and Heinrich, Konrad I, was a franconian and could have been a very last carolingian)? Then i do not like it, when Karl der Große is allways called Charlemagne. Also the franconians are not french! The Franken, as this tribe calls himself in german, is one of the tribes which are now united and are known as ,the Germans', other tribes are for example the saxons, the bavarians or the swabians. The Franken are still alive in the states of Hessen, Saarland, Rheinland -Pfalz, the south of Nordrhein-Westfalen, the north of Bayern and Baden-Württemberg, also in Luxemburg and Lorraine. The truth is, that this tribe conquered the area which is now france, the german name for france is Frankreich/kingdom of the franconians. But i think the number of franconian settlers in nowadays france was not so high, but they became the upper class/nobility.
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