Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "The Armchair Historian" channel.

@fabianmichaelgockner5988 : I am Brittas boyfriend. My comment is not wrong, but today i am simply happy enough , to make some unexpected fun.
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It is the socalled ,Reichsapfel'.
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Franken ( both territory and tribesmen) to describe the current Francs in Germany, Frankreich is german for France, so the ,K' is correct for the ,old days'. The english France sounds for Germans. Frants /Franz, the french France sounds for Germans ,Frohns' .
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@Ruhrpottpatriot : I did my comment simply to show, that Prussia was the leading country in military things, because , with the exeption of Austria, the smaller states in Germany had only few military innovations, or things , in which they had been better than Prussia.
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Last commanders of last two german cavallry divisions ( mounted riflemen, no real cavallry men) had been members of german high nobility , with the rank of Fürst ( this rank is between Duke and Count).
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@1armeddrummerinaprisonrock244 :: I come from southwest Germany, being in HRE era Reichskreis Schwaben/ Imperial circle Swabia. Exactly 100 souveergn states! Largest levy: About 1000 men of Württemberg, smallest levy: Town of Buchhorn ( now Friedrichshafen) four footmen. In Case of Reichskreis Regiments, an austrian Style uniform was worn. The soldiers of this Princes, Counts, Princed Bishops, Princed Abbotts and mostly small imperial Towns had been a mix of militia men, policemen, targetshooters and ceremonial palace soldiers - in other words the levy of Reichskreis Schwaben was nearly useless. But in historic movies, you allways see brave French troops fighting highquality german troops in 17th/18th century.....
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@procariama8217 : As a german i can tell you, that when this is true, H&K leaders must be idiots. Coke would be written the german way as Kauk.
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No. The real founder of prussian army was his father Friedrich- Wilhelm l, ruling from 1714 to 1740. This king had a problem, when he started his reign. His pompeous and warlike ancestors had nearly bancrupted Prussia. So he did changes. He replaced pompeous french lifestyle with moneysaving prussian lifestyle. He sold expensive and useless african colonies. He changed administration: The official became wellpaid, and for this the king wanted loyal, disciplined and busy officials. He stopped all costintensive things, when you can not earn money with. He thought: A country without an army is a garden without a fence, everybody comes to steal. So he enlarged prussian army from 38000 men to about 70000 (or 80000?) men and spend lot of money for bis army. But he knew: a) An army is expensive. b) Warfare is more expensive. c) A defeat in war is much more expensive. So Friedrich- Wilhelm l, known as Soldatenkönig/ soldierking was militaristic, but was never involved in a war ( to expensive). But in contrast to his son , he was not interessted in art or philosophy, he was a simple man and described as a rather unfriendly, to some degree brutal man, so he is seen mostly negatve in Germany. But: Not wanting colonies and selling them, being not involved into war, and a money saving lifestyle is realy different to other monsrchs.
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@freyasslain2203 : My english vocabulary is limited. Some of his decissions (?)/ Entscheidungen had been not so bad for his time ( for example he stopped most of witchcraft trials), but he was no good man, what i decribed with simple and sometimes brutal ( and seemed narrowminded). I think, we mean about the same.
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Who pays into European Union since founding European Union, and who gets money out of European Union since founding European Union. We germans habe to pay for decades, while latin lazybones get our money, stolen from german worker for decades. Be quiet!
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@nonnayerbusiness7704 : In Holy Roman Empire no Emperor was asassinated, also no German / Austrian Emperor or President. A great difference.
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@FlagAnthem : The german name for France is Frankreich/ Reich der Franken. So we still know, that those members of one of our tribes, which not moved away , gave France the name ( there are still lots of Franken in Germany). In early days of HRE some italian noblemen, loyal to german emperor, said: We speak today italian language, but we are descendens of Langobarden and Burgunder, so we are also german. So about 1000 italian nobles still knew their germanic ancestry.
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@jeanvaljean4876 : german name: Weißenburg/ French name: Wissembourg!
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Some small notes from Germany: The german ,ch' sound is not a ,k' . German ,th' is spoken ,t' , not the english way ( When Standard German was created in 19th century, and was officially adopted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in early 1870s, the former custom of writing a ,h' after every ,t' ended, so today a ,th' appears only in in names or nongerman words, the only exeption is Thron/ throne, because Wilhelm ll in 1901 saved the ,h' in this word.) Also calling von Richthofen a Baron is not correct. In british nobility rank system Baron is the lowest rank of high nobility, while german nobility rank Freiherr is highest rank of low nobility ( knights), so Baronet would be more correct. Baron is in Germany often used for Freiherr, but only in Austria or Bavaria some few noblemen bot this title officially.
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@thodan467 : The number of german soldiers was higher, and the training and organisation was a bit better, but military experts of those days said that three french Chassepot rifles had the same military power than five german Dreyse rifles, so this equals(?) the higher number of german soldiers, and the Chassepot was the reason ,why german troops had high losses in many battles.
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@LiterallyWho1917 : Not totally true, in case of line tactics. Both in Italy 1859, in Denmark 1864 and Königgrätz 1866 the Austrian troops used many parts of old napoleonic tactics. The problem was , that in the austrian army soldiers with german, hungarian, czech, slowakian, slowenian, croatian, italian, polish, ruthenic, romanian etc. native language served, so before 1867 ( the year of military, civil and administration reforms), commanding the modern tactics was a large Problem, so that Austria used old tactics, easier to command , longer. In the very informative Army Museum in the former Arsenal buildings of Vienna, i saw a manual for german language officers, how to speak orders for nongerman soldiers. The orders had been written, for example , in correct hungarian and then in a way , how a german would write it.
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@procariama8217 : There are two variations of german ,ch' sound. Ich ( i) and Dach ( roof) sound different. The ch sound is, slower and softer spoken, the sound an angry cat makes, when she lays down her ears. When H&K realy says, Koch is spoken Coke, this is strange, because its wrong.
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@MrHorsefly69 : Schweinehund!
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@liamweaver2944 : This is a swabian dialect phrase, not the vietnamese town. Ha noi means in Standard german : Aber nein! ( But no!). It is used when someone hears surprising news, an english person would say: Unbelievable!
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@MrHorsefly69 : Als an einer leichten Form des Asperger Syndroms leidende Person, fällt es mir nicht leicht, Scherze, Ironie oder Satire zu erkennen. Ich, nicht meine Freundin Britta, deren Account ich nutze, war zwanzig Jahre Qualitätspüfer in einer kleinen Firma, das steckt halt noch in mir drin. Man bemerkt oft Kommentare offenbar nicht wirklich der deutschen Sprache mächtiger Personen, welchen ich die richtige Schreibweise zeigen möchte.
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You have forgotten the steel and Tombak ( german name of this copper based metal mix) used by prussian and bavarian cuirassiers, saxon heavy cavallry and some palace units like prussian Leibgendarmen'. Also after a short time the stored argentinian cow lesther was out, so as a replacement helmets made of felt vor stamped sheet metal had been made. Decasdes ago , i saw such helmets in a no more existing museum.
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@a_channel2545 : His name was Ferdinand von Zeppelin ( named after a village Zöpelin). His descendants call themselfes now ,von Brandenstein- Zeppelin', there are two branches. During a historical daytrip with a small historical society, i could visit the castle/ small palace of one branch, next to town Ravensburg. In contrast to other german nobles of former Knights class, he seems to be still a rich man. There is in my region still a Zeppelin company, but this company sells construction machines and equipment, assumingly especially for road construction.
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@oxkenzie : Not with a plane. Possibly with a ship for man distance, then train, post coach. Also possible is that he traveled to Russia by ship, then rode on horseback or bycicle.
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@parapat2445 : My grandmother , born 1910 , told me ,that the workers got their wages(?) daily, and they had to run fastly to the shop, the money was worthless.
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Panzer, not Pänzer ;-)
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@Dave Baton : As a german, i am Brittas boyfriend, some notes. In contast to US , we no more have a conservative/ patriotic party anymore. For decades i voted for CDU party , but i soon noted that Merkel moved conservative CDU to left direction. Current German Federal President Steinmeier hold a speech : We have today best Germany , we ever had! But as a 56 years old german i remember an easier life in 80s and even 90s.
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1971?
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Not totally. When in 1871 imperial german constitution was created, this was a crap, which was not wellmade, so the german state/ administration/ miniteries etc. had been weak and oldfashioned organized. Germany looked strong at outside, but was weak and unmodern inside. With good, wellminded monarchs or politicians perhaps not the problem, it seemed Wilhelms only short ruling father Friedrich noted the weaknesses, but was to ill (sick?) to change something. But it is true, Wilhelms younger brother Heinrich would possibly have been a better Emperor, because he was no loudmouth and showman.
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France is in german language Frankreich/ Reich der Franken. Also the inhabitants of the german states Saarland, Hessen, Rheinland- Pfalz and parts of Bavaria, Baden- Württemberg and Nordrhein- Westfalen are Franken.
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You failed againt a bunch of daggermen, so be quiet ;-)
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@JM-fo1te : Old english was, for example in grammar similar to current german. So not we germans invented a complcated language, we have simply the last germanic language, which still has old grammar system.
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@michaelbell3952 : A Landwehr/ Landhege ( see also Hecke/ hedge / Gehege) is realy a light border fortification. But ,die Wehr' means weapons, this is today outdated , but arround 1500 a Bauernwehr was a bowiesized knife ( farmers weapon). This is also in Gewehr ( Ge- means a lot of/ Gesang- a lot of singing/ Geschrei- a lot of shouting) so Gewehr is a lot of defence and up to 18th century a Gewehr could also be a polearm. Sich wehren- to defend yourself. ,Das Wehr ' is a kind of damm to close or open a river for producing energy out of floating water.
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@abuqadr629 : Sind sie aber ein Schelm!
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@bsp1895 : Spanish or Portugise in latin America?
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@thodan467 : The Royal Wurttembergian Army had four regiments of cavallry. Two regiments Dragoner, used as heavy cavallry, and two regiments Ulanen used AS light cavallry.
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@ribbitgoesthedoglastnamehe4681 : Wrong button! The dragoons had been in Germany used as second wave in charge, or sometimes as infantry, they once had been ( They had been armed with a slightly shortened musket/ Dragonergewehr, similar to marines muskets, bayonnet and staight blade sword/ Pallasch like cuirassiers and gendarmes). During 18th century the german dragons had been used fewer and fewer as infantry ( Frederick ll of prussia: The dragons fight mostly in horseback, infantry training should not be forgotten, but the quality of regular infantry is not necessary). As light cavallry the Hussars ( of hungarian orgin) had been used in Germany , armed with ( curved) saber and carbines. Carbines in small numbers had also been used by cuirassiers and gendarmes, and pistols also by hussars and dragons. Cavallry with lances was very (!) rare in 18th century germany, perhaps some few polish soldiers in prussian/austrian service, and austrian Grenzer/ Bosniaken/ border guards at the austrian- ottoma Militärgrenze/ military border. During napoleonic wars, lancers (Ulanen) had been introduced into some german armies, and german/austrian dragons have nearly lost the infantry fight ability. This was reintroduced in not so proper way in late 19th century, so german dragons entered wwl with Leatherhelmet with point like line infantry, but with carbines. Because german cavallry started in wwl with carbines and no bayonnet, they had to use their lances as substitute. So to come back to your comment, the solution is simply another military tradition. And bavarian light cavallry used the french name Chevaux legets'- light horse.
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@MrX-jf7bx : No miast's abr ,dees isch guad' hoisa!
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In 1950s/ 1960s many german farmers did their work with a Porsche tractor.
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