Bismarck and Napoleon III fight to death

[SavageJim01]

LOL, how funny!

I wonder if Louis-Napoleon would have actually drawn his saber on Bismarck once they were face to face discussing surrender terms?

[mc0558]

@GreggJulian 90% Alsace-Lorraine had been incorporated into France BY THE MIDDLE OF THE 1600'S. Schools, governments, administration, the military were all in French. Yet you would have us believe that despite 200 years of history, Alsace-Lorraine had remained German. The existence of local patois, thousands of which existed all over Europe (but have sadly faded) does NOT compromise the essential nationality of this area, French.

[Chiswick2]

The Austrians were considered Germans too, and it was only after the unification of Germany under Prussia and the exclusion of Austria from German affairs were they considered different. Under the Holy Roman Empire the Austrians Habsburgs held the imperial throne and they held varying degrees of power in their history, and they were the nominal sovereigns of all the German states as well as several territories in Italy and the Low Countries. The Prussians were just expansionist upstarts.

[SuperTravis898]

@Chiswick2 Since, both Austria and the Austrian monarchy WERE german, i can totaly see why, even after prussia united all of the german state[except of course Austria and switzerland] Austrian was still german, just not considerd german. It wouldnt be im guessing to ww1 when Austria was considerd another german power

[Chiswick2]

Prussia was always an expansionist state and it was always covetous of the territory which belong to other countries. Germany became a nation late, as I have said, and it attempted to have the same global influence as established powers such as the UK and France who had a virtual monopoly on colonies. Italy was very similar to Germany in this regard, they became a nation late and felt the need to acquire the scraps left by the British and French in order to satisfy their vanity.

[Chiswick2]

And Germany did briefly have a colonial empire, but it was rather small and unimportant compared to that of the British and French, not to mention it only lasted a few years.

[pvtgunny]

@Chiswick2 Indeed, the German Empire largely consited of a small sausage factory somewhere in Tanganyika

[Chiswick2]

The UK and France actually had vast colonies empires and the sort of global influence to which Germany aspired. And people always bag on France, but they have won more wars in their history as a nation than German has or ever will win. The UK as well, they had an empire to which none compare. Germany was a loose collection of states which became a nation late in it's history, attempted to gain an empire, failed, and started and lost two world wars.

[Chiswick2]

"Of course Germany won!!"

I have no idea where Germany get's this reputation of military prowess, history proves the only war they won as unified nation was the Franco-Prussian war. Germany lost both world wars, which were the only other major conflicts it was involved in as a unified country. With Germany it is always "they could have won" or "they almost won" or "what if....". They never had a large empire and they always failed in their ambition to acquire one.

[pvtgunny]

@Chiswick2 It possibly could have come from Frederick II, or maybe from Blucher, or possibly from the Schlesvig war, or possibly the Austro-Prussian war. The reason Germany was known for military prowess was because Germany was practically and extended Prussia, a state that was once called an 'army with a nation'

[SuperTravis898]

Of course germany won!!

[mc0558]

It was a mistake to have allowed Prussia to disturb the balance of power in Europe! What could Gladstone have been thinking of?

[GreggJulian]

@mc0558 There was 40 years of peace after German Reunification. The power was balanced, that's why ww1 lasted so long. If France had won this war (the Franco-Prussian War) they would have dominated continental Europe.

[mc0558]

@GreggJulian Forty years of peace while France broke out of the isolation Bismarck concocted for her and put together the Triple Entente alliance against Germany. The outbreak of WWI was first and foremost engineered by France, by the leaders of the Democratic Republican Alliance, Poincare, Viviani, Del Casse, Palealogue as revenge for 1871 and to get back Alsace Lorraine. Unless beaten into the dust, an unjust peace leads to the next war.

[GreggJulian]

@mc0558 The peace after the Franco-Prussian War was just IMO. Alsace-Lorraine was german speaking to begin with. France paid off the "crushing" indemnity in three years. She kept her colonies and had no restrictions on the size of her army. Britain guaranteed that Germany respect the sovereinty of France, there was no need for the Russian alliance except for offensive purposes.

[mc0558]

@GreggJulian Most people in Alsace-Lorraine spoke French, but it had been part of the Holy Roman Empire. But whatever they spoke, as Reichslaender they showed by their votes in the Reichstag during the period from 1871 to 1918 that they had never wanted to be in the Reich. Popular loyalty in A-L was to France. As for France and Russia, the Holstein Doctrine entailed and aggressive stance against Russia for which the alliance with France was the only alternative.

[GreggJulian]

@mc0558 The assertion that the majority of the inhabitants of Alsace-Lorraine spoke french in 1870, or anytime before 1945, is patently false. The majority (roughly 85% according to my sources) spoke Alsatian, a german dialect. I will grant you that they did return a majority of autonimists to the reichstag, but they may have been more pro-independence rather than pro-french. In 1918, after the withdrawal of german forces, they even set up a brief independent state.

[mc0558]

@GreggJulian Alsace-Lorraine spoke French! That also spoke various local dialects that sprang from German tribes that settled in the region 1500years before but French was the official language! Geordies in the North-east of England spoke a dialect based on Danish and Anglo Saxon, but they were English, not Danes or Saxons. There is ample evidence that they felt French, not German; indeed Hitler annexed them in name only; they retained the Fr language & Fr law and institutions.

[GreggJulian]

@mc0558 Ok, I can't let this slide. Please stop littering the internet with false history and french propaganda. Most of the people in Alsace-Lorraine did not speak french in 1870 and the Alsatian language was unrelated to french in any way other than a few loanwords. Even today, the german dialect on the opposite side of the Rhine is closely related to Alsatian. I don't know much about the Geordies, but they were seperated from Denmark by a huge geographical obstical, the North Sea...

[GreggJulian]

@mc0558 ...so if the Geordie language was closely related to Danish (which is debatable) it would eventually hae died out due to the gegraphic realities. And when was this, 500 years ago? The Alsatian language was alive and well as recently as the second world war.

I understand that the victors write the history, but any credible historian should try to look at the facts unbiased, something that sadly is missing in today's acadamia.

[mc0558]

@GreggJulian Losers comfort themselves that history is the written by the victors, and I grant you a lot has been; but this is only a temporary. The truth will break through. For exampe, the revanchist Democratic Republican Alliance in France, working through Maurice Paleologue on Nicholas II, did the most to provoke the Aug 914 crisis, ending the German guilt myth. History, quoting Ranke, is "wie es eigentlich gewesen war" and in the age of mass communication that will always break through.

[imagosimpson]

love it! very cute

[SudPreussen]

Blood and Iron!

[Archaun20]

Es cortito, pero esta bien hecha, yo estudio animacion entre otras cosas y para hacer este corto de 7 segundos ha tenido su creador que hacer como 49 fotos y secuenciarlas de manera correcta lo cual no es facil, y si es su primera animacion no esta nada mal, cuando tenga mas tiempo podra hacer otras mejores y mas largas.

[robino007]

@bensrock21 : Yes, I am.

;)

[comandantecody98]

muy corto

[comandantecody98]

no me gusta nada

[Waffel22]

hehe your characters are nice and they look like the ream men.

[robino007]

yeahhh! our bismarck won!

[bensrock21]

@robino007 are you german or something?

[Quiriil]

haha xD

[MrCauliflower]

What the????

[gonesparta]

:S

pues vaya

[JERRYR708]

Good stop motion. I like the Napoleon figure.

[Kotassium]

I don't. It looks nothing like napoleon

[Napoleon5005]

It was Napoleon III

[Metal7788]

Playmobil Stahlhelm! Lol!

[nougatnase]

echt cool !

[YoungHistorian101]

Nice mate

[AciesFilms]

brilliant, very funny!!!

[fonsisweb]

great video! :-D

[percydanvers2]

What a strange fellow Napoleon III was

[Playmosoldats1515]

Bonne animation. Vive Napoléon III!