The Forgotten Story Of Independent Saarland

CATASTROPHIC MAP ERROR: Thüringen was, of course, in East Germany. Oops! Apologies for any offence / distress / injury / death caused.

As a german I can say not only the history of the independent Saarland got forgotten. The Saarland in gerneral gets usualy forgotten.

Me before I click on the video: "I certainly hope there's a Baumwipfelpfad."

Being a Saarländer myself, a friend of mine once made this absolute fantastic comparison: Saarland is like a lizard's tail of Germany. Everytime Germany gets into danger it throws off the Saarland, but in the end it somehow always grows back. I think that's hilarious 😂

My great grandmother was born 1898 near Saarbruecken. She changed her nationality four times, lived through two world wars and paid with six different currencies. She has been through a lot, without even moving once!

As a person from Saarland, I was certainly surprised to see this in my recommendations. :D

I had a colleague from the Saarland. Others were sometimes joking with him, calling him 'Rucksackdeutscher' (German with a backpack (travelling between countries) ) or 'Spätheimkehrer' (Late to come home). He always countered with: 'That maybe so, but we have the biggest win of all: French food, German portions!' Touché ^^

Wherever you go in the world, you will always find a Saarländer. The same goes for this comment section.

Me born and raised in Saarland, watching this video like "Oh my god, ive been there, I know this place"

"Ah yes, France was chatting up Saarland in a night club... What is this video"? 😂 These videos are perfect for a pick me up chuckle 👌👍

Another French influence: My aunt from Saarland told me cafés were placing tables and chairs outside on the sidewalks long before this became common in the rest of Germany.

Living in Saarland and will be moving to Paris in a few weeks, but my heart will always stay in Saarland ❤️

“...they spell it the mëtäl wäÿ.”

"Which is what I call Saar-casm." Fantastic!

There is even another interesting bit about constitutional history: When the West German constitution, the Grundgesetz, was written, they included two separate articles for re-unification with Saarland and for re-unification with East Germany. While the "Saarland-Article" always was designed like "annexing" the Saarland should they choose so in the referendum with France, the consitution called for a Federal assembly and a whole new constitution in case of the unification with East Germany. Even the name "Grundgesetz" suggests that it was meant to be provisional until that happened. However, when 1989 happened, nobody was keen on actually doing that, and in the end East Germany was annexed using the "Saarland-Article" and we still have the Grundgesetz which is now valid in all Germany.

Greets from Großrosseln! It is my homevillage and it is next to the french village "Petite Rosselle" or in english: "Little Rossel". "Rossel" is also the name of the river that marks the border between Germany and France. The name is derived from the celtic name "Rossela" which means "red river".

The football story is actually even more twisted: The manager of Saarland's team, Helmut Schön, later went on to become manager of the (West) German national team and eventually lead them to win the World Cup in 1974.

You have a great way of telling a historical story, this is some complex history too. Genuinely should be showing your video in schools, I studied German History at school, would’ve loved these videos then!

When you live in Saarland and get this vid recommended

Hey, I'm from Saarland. And this is the best video about this topic ever !