-History:
"Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland" or "Des Deutschen Vaterland" is a German patriotic song. The song was first performed in 1814. It called for a greater German nation of all German speaking countries under one state. It was made to stand for German unification. Germany unified in 1871. 10 years after the unification of Italy in 1861. Before unification, Germany consisted of many other German speaking states/nations. There were ideas of nations like Austria, Switserland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein joining in the German unification, but they never did due to every one of those nations having their own complications. I suggest doing some research about these complications and why these nations never joined in on German unification. It's quite interesting!

-The maps:
I spend hours making all these maps, only to realise this version of the song misses out on a lot of verses. The original song is way longer with more verses explaining what areas would be part of a German nation, Like pommerania, Austria, Switserland or the independent states on the German coast for example. Having spend so much time on these maps I refused to not include them. So after improvising a bit, this is the result. Hope you like it!

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-The record:
This is a very rare record! This version of the song has never been shown anywhere on the internet before. It is as far as I know the first vocal recording of this song. This particular recording is from 1916 and was sang by Carl Schlegel.

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Disclaimer:
This song is not made by me! I simply record vinyl records, upload them on youtube and tell a bit of history.
I do not promote any type of idiology, hate or anything of the sort. This video is made to educate people about history through old music.

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