The History of Germany
Posted by West_Cartographer264@reddit | thegrandtour | View on Reddit | 19 comments
Posted by West_Cartographer264@reddit | thegrandtour | View on Reddit | 19 comments
sweahtheart@reddit
The past wasn’t all that great either.
Most of our battles were against ourselves so, in a way, we won and lost at the same time.
MihaiROYALE@reddit
Germany should've won. The wrong people won.
Federal_Chance4393@reddit
Germany, I want to love you and hate you
DogfaceZed@reddit
Mein Herz in Flammen, will ich lieben und verdammen
Borstolus@reddit
That's the sad thing: your ancestors did some (very) bad things and lost. So everyone forgets about the nearly 1000 years before that. 🫣
TGX03@reddit
The stuff before wasn't that great either.
We mostly fought internal wars, meaning technically we both won and lost at the same time.
Borstolus@reddit
Germany isn't all about war.
Look at science, arts like literature or music and even philosophy.
Pineapple_Spenstar@reddit
And mercenaries. Don't forget about the mercenaries. Landsknechts and Hessians
TGX03@reddit
Yeah but that always happened in parallel. We did a lot of cultural stuff before, during and after our World Wars.
A lot of art is actually related to all the wars we fought. Expressionism for example is closely tied to the first world war. One of the most famous art pieces by Picasso is Guernica, depicting one of the first acts of the Nazis, even before WW2 actually started.
And science, well you know who invented mustard gas or the jet fighter.
I'm German, trust me there are many great things we did. But when talking about the history of a country, one must always consider the good and the bad.
Borstolus@reddit
Aber genau das wollte ich doch sagen: Beides sehen, nicht nur das Böse. 😘
And yeah: war is the biggest innovation machine "we" have, because now there are resources for that.
(That and boredom)
Imreallyadonut@reddit
They won pretty regularly for a while before it went wrong.
Both times.
6DONDada9@reddit
history of genocidal animals https://www.auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/human-fat-was-used-to-produce-soap-in-gdansk-during-the-war,55.html
AlfalfaGlitter@reddit
How do you pronounce it?
Och biz
Auch biz
Ouch biz
Och bitch
...
Mmmm so many questions.
6DONDada9@reddit
sorry i dont speak nazi untermensch
AlfalfaGlitter@reddit
Wrong sub dude. In this sub we know Austria for going from petting to wedding through fucking.
Nghbrhdsyndicalist@reddit
Your account is actually pathetic. Very much so.
Neat-Watercress-1778@reddit
isn't that french ?
FenrisCain@reddit
The French surrendered once and everyone forgot about them being the dominant land power in Europe for most of its post roman history
Nghbrhdsyndicalist@reddit
One of the dominant ones