Comments by "G. F. W." (@g.f.w.6402) on "The New Culture Forum" channel.

Have people around the world been asked whether they want the English to forcibly occupy 90% of the countries that exist today throughout history? There is one nation on this planet that has no right to complain, and that is the British.
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@codegreen5213 So you weren't alive yet? Well then some of the worst crimes against humanity committed by the English are null and void, aren't they? I've rarely read anything so simple.
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@johnjacob7569 As a German with a BA/MA in history, I have to correct both points. The first point is technically/scientifically wrong. Such developments always come out of a people itself and look at nationalistic hatred; the English used to bite everyone away. The Germans around 1900 were right about many things, including the fact that the greed for land of the English was already pathological. Secondly, N*** is cultural appropriation (and I mean that completely seriously). Everything to do with N*** and all worldwide commercial exploitation rights should belong exclusively to Germany.
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@@Epitome687 in this point I agree with you 100%. BUT also fact: The shameful deeds of the British, who invaded half the globe without asking the locals first, cannot be dismissed out of hand. As a German with a degree in history, I don't weep a tear for the British.
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@Pinkdam Consent. The First World War was absolutely necessary and normal for European conditions. Every european country had its century and gave wings to the whole of europe in an unprecedented way. The 20th century should have become a German century after a short, habitual, caper. Instead, American money flowed into the UK and France and countless centuries-old European traditions were broken.
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@jonathanj.7344 That is not correct. We Germans don't hate, especially not the British. The UK is simply too insignificant for that. That's not my personal opinion, but an objective assessment. The German gaze is directed towards China and the USA, and perhaps some people really don't like them.
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@artstation707 Prussia has not existed since 1945. The area now belongs to Poland and millions of Germans were expelled from there. The culture and the dialects died together with the last Prussians. A genocide. From a scientific point of view, however, I am more interested in political history. I argue that Western Europe was only able to develop in its Garden of Eden because Germany and the Austrian Empire fulfilled many important functions. Among other things, as a wall that protected Western Europe from all evils, which had the potential to set European civilization back 100 years. Today, Germany and Austria no longer have the means or the desire to fulfill their old role. We no longer have any control over Eastern Europe and we also let all the illegals through because otherwise the world says we're evil...
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@Pinkdam Firstly, Germany didn't have a king until 1918, but rather an Kaiser (stands above a king) and secondly, the British in the First World War, like the rest of the bunch, weren't the good ones. A German emperor would have been good for Europe, including the Irish, because the German Empire was the most efficient state in Europe and a liberal era would have begun. It's not me saying it, say historians.
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@@Epitome687 You misunderstood. I actually see it the same way you do, but in Europe we use history as a political weapon. The British and French started it.
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@benred88 You mean the Europeans who were enslaved by Arabs? And no, I am not a "Passdeutscher" ("German by passport only").
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@wingaard In 2011 I wrote my master's thesis about German South West Africa and the Herero War. The Herero War was not "evil", but normal for the context of the time. And there is no continuity with the Holocaust, even if that is what left-wing extremist “scientists” claim. But do you know what was really evil, even in the context of that time? That the English ran concentration camps in Kenya from 1952-1960, AFTER Auschwitz!
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@benred88 You pick out a single fact and use it to justify British crimes and genocides on almost every continent. It also has a bad aftertaste how the British avoid any critical examination of their history, but at the same time try to use history as a weapon against others. I think that's what you call shabby. The self-image of many Britons is really crude. And that's not how science works. I also find your question as to whether I am "German-Muslim" strange. I am a real German and you don't have to think that the Germans particularly like the British, especially the English, to put it euphemistically.
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@artstation707 In the 1930s, discrimination against Germans in Poland and the Czech Republic became unbearable (these territories were integral parts of Germany and Austria until 1918). Today, the UN would march in there immediately. As a German, I find it blatant that the UK recklessly declared war on Germany in 1939 because of Poland, while the British have problems with some immigrant Poles and other Eastern Europeans in 2023. Now imagine you have Poland as a direct neighbor and Polish newspapers are already publishing maps in which Berlin is part of Poland. My sympathy for the British is extremely limited.
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@artstation707 "In the early 1990s, when only 12 nations comprised the European Union, things were fine and balanced. We interacted with peers from France and Germany. It was fun." We saw it the same way in Germany. I was 19 years old when the EU's eastward enlargement took place in 2004, and on that day the EU ceased to exist for me personally. Nevertheless, I think the main blame lies with the British and French, who in 1918 wanted all these strange states to be created between Germany/Austria and Russia. That doesn't belong there. And I personally find the obsession of many Britons (you don't seem to be one of them) with the Slavs (especially Poles) downright perverse. We Germans knew exactly who we were dealing with, which is why Eastern Europeans were banned from working in Germany for years after the enlargement.
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@artstation707 Prussia has not existed since 1945. The area now belongs to Poland and millions of Germans were expelled from there. The culture and the dialects died together with the last Prussians. A genocide. From a scientific point of view, however, I am more interested in political history. I argue that Western Europe was only able to develop in its Garden of Eden because Germany and the Austrian Empire fulfilled many important functions. Among other things, as a wall that protected Western Europe from all evils, which had the potential to set European civilization back 100 years. Today, Germany and Austria no longer have the means or the desire to fulfill their old role. We no longer have any control over Eastern Europe and we also let all the illegals through because otherwise the world says we're evil...
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user-nh8zt9wl3c As a German, I tend to believe that the British are what they are because they were the first country on the planet to make the leap to industrialization and work harder than most people on the planet could. I invite all people from third world countries to come to Germany and work like us for two weeks. You will beg to be allowed to fly home again. Most wouldn't even survive our childhood.
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@Uriel-Septim. Said Karl Marx, who himself lived like Hedonism Bot. Socialists/communists always claim to be allowed to live differently from those on whom they want to impose their inhuman ideology by force if necessary.
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@Justin-yt8zv "should I treat you as a nazi simply for what Germans did in the past?" - This is exactly what almost the entire rest of the world is doing, with the exception of our former formal and informal allies and the Arab world. We Germans don't just prefer to travel to Spain and Italy because of the weather, there are other reasons too. This is largely due to anti-German propaganda by the British and Americans before, during and AFTER the war. The British have apparently a fetish for breaking with centuries-old European traditions since 1918. And yes, the dirt of the English-speaking world is slowly coming up, the world is not a one-way street. The English-speaking world was not better.
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@hereandthere6001 Amen.
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@amschelco.1434 yes. Germany was right. But the know-it-all West has woken up too late. Now they should see how they get on.
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@wingaard Germany only had 4 colonies in Africa and one territory in the Pacific and China. In no way comparable to the British colonial empire.
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@addom88 Life is not a one-way street. The English-speaking world is pointing the finger at the Germans and will now have to live with the fact that their own misdeeds will come to light and be used as a contemporary weapon. Historians worldwide are working on it. The British have only ever been good at covering up their crimes.
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