Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

  1. This program is nonsense. It is politically correct historical revisionism. Romans became Christian after emperor Constantine well before the fall of the Empire at the start of the 5th century. The Anglo-Saxons were not Christians. Anglo-Saxon conversion to Christianity is well documented at the end of the 6th century. The Romans also did agriculture in an entirely different way. They had huge estates. Those estate owners didn't just give their land away. The Anglo-Saxons really came here. Europe was invaded: by Vandals. Goths, Visigoths, Franks, ... They didn't exterminate the previous population. They installed themselves as rulers. Wherever barbarians installed themselves as rulers they took on characteristics of the conquered. For example: Italy of 520 was ruled by an Ostrogoth king yet it still had Senators (as the Romans had). We know the Vandals (originally from what's now southern Poland) conquered and migrated to North Africa to make kingdoms there. In fact still talking Poland. More recently: We know in and after the second world war, Russia took a big piece of Eastern Poland and gave Poland a slightly smaller piece of Eastern Germany. In 1944 there were about 11 million Germans in that piece later given to Poland. About half fled West (many in 1945), and three-quarters of the remaining 4 million were ethnically cleansed (by Communist Poles) moving to what became East Germany. By 1950, 3155000 German civilians had been expelled and 1043550 were naturalised as Polish citizens. Summary: 1 million remaining in 1950 from 11 million Germans who'd been there in 1944. Just because no one documented ethnic cleansing in the 5th and 6th century England doesn't mean it never happened.
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