Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Otto von Bismarck - The Iron Chancellor - Extra History - Part 4" video.

  1. 0:23 "Largely german speaking dutchy", true for Hostein, but not Schleswig, an area that at the time was largely Danish speaking at least as far as the population was concerned, the nobility... Eh... Also, 0:55, that part isn't the whole story either... The problem was that Schleswig and Hostein where two dutchies that through treaties could not be divided and where to always belong to the same country despite the difference in culture in the two dutchies. And the nobility there... Well, they where an issue to put it that way... Denmark had not that long before this actually started to become somewhat democratic for a change, Schleswig and Holstein, not so much... Danes in Denmark proper wanted the new more democratic constitution of 1849 to apply to all Danes including the largely Danish lower classes of Scheswig (yes, there where Friiseans and Germans there too, and german influences where moving northwards there and held more status due to the german nobility there) I'm not saying that Denmark couldn't perhaps have handled the situation differently. But the way that the above video puts the blame squarely on Denmark for a war that quite frankly is still somewhat of a sore point in the nordic region... Eh... I think you guys could have done better... The second Schleswig War and the Winter War in Finland are both wars where the nordic region lost territory due to the machinations of greater powers at the cost of ruining the lives of many of the people who actually lived there. At least the issue of Schleswig was finally resolved after the second world war with an election, after ages where german influences had changed the cultural identity of even more of the local population... That issue has been laid to rest even if we might be less then happy with the above mentioned war and its outcome...
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