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  49. No, it is a completely unbalanced view in a nationalist and racist sense. These things were not believed even at the beginning of the twentieth century any more. First of all, the German monarchs did not control even the majority of Germany on a regular basis: their power was rather on a ducal private asset. Also the aforementioned "disposal" of the Slavic territories is wishful thinking. Bohemia was a kingdom and it rose in the 13th century to the greatest power within the Empire under a Slavic dinasty that expanded in Germany itself: the Lorenese Luxembourgs were also called later to rule with Prague as the capital of the Empire in an elective monarchy: that is, a French emperor with a Slavic kingdom. Secondly, the ethnic division between Germans and subjects has no historical meaning since the first 2-3 generations of the Germanic settlement at the latest. Romance speakers in Northern Gaul and Italy were juridically Germanic freemen and they remained as such all along. The video is very correct especially in underlining the co-optation of the local elites in order to extend an Empire that had very serious territorial control difficulties. Italy defeated the German rulers on multiple occasions and was self-ruled for the greatest part of the period: without Italian support the Germans never secured the control on the Italic kingdom and most Italian states were by far richer, more powerful and more civilly advanced than any German state in the Late Middle Ages. All this without considering that the greatest objective of every Germanic (Roman) emperor during this period was to center the Empire in Rome, making of Germany just a peripheral province. The Empire was simply not German because it was not a national but Christian prerogative: as we've seen there were also French and Italian emperors and English and Spanish kings of Germany and of the Romans. Calling the Holy Roman Empire a "German" Empire is to deny the most intimate nature of what the universal Holy Roman Empire represented par excellence: the Christian Roman Empire. The title of "German" emperor would automatically downgrade the monarch's authority in front of the Christian world and it is what they were bitterly struggling to avoid exactly that, particularly in this period. Not to mention that the "Germans" themselves, like other peoples, at this point did not have a true national conscience and that the nickname "German nation" (in the Latin sense of "natio") appears only at the end of the 15th century. The official name of the empire was Imperium Francorum from Charlemagne and Imperium Romanorum since Otto I. Also, what with the Mongols? How can one compare a dinasty that conquered most of Eurasia and split its imperial goverment among its descendants with a rule that basically bargained its crown on an elective basis from the various lands of the Empire and needed constant support from local powers in order to get an official recognition by an external power (papacy?). PS also are you one of those who think that "Karl" was German? I'm sorry there's so such thing at that time, he was simply a Frank: and no, by that time being Frank doesn't equate to be a "German".
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