Bosniaks are just islamized serbs, everybody knows that

8:45 Hötzendorf's warmongering was because he wanted to marry a woman of the nobility, Gina von Reininghaus, which he couldn't do because he was of low birth. So he wanted to prove his manliness 23:45 Hötzendorf concluded that Austrian mobilization and a German ultimatum can make Russia back down.

Multiple lies and hidden facts that are crucial in this video. As usual when westerners discuss Serbs and Serbia. Lack of knowledge is disastrous. No wonder why many Serbs think west is against us. I will write few lines, without idea to downgrade Serbian nationalism or obvious Serbian resentment towards Muslims. 1. You have hidden fact that Bosnia had Serbian majority back then with even many Muslims having Serb identity. It was not Serbian nationalists who had claims. It was local population (Serbs) who had claims over Bosnia. Which is quit normal, local populations always have claims on land they live in. 2. You missed to mention Croat, Turk, Hungarian and German nationalism when discussing Bosnian crisis. Even emerging Bosnian identity. All of them had historical, ethnical and religious claims over Bosnia. I believe it is because your sources are heavily biased as most of western sources about Serbian history and I don't blame you. Amount of lies and manipulations makes individuals unable to grasp these topics. You have to spend life figuring out what is truth and what is propaganda. But western tendency to blame Serbs for everything is getting forms of racism to be honest. No wonder wars are inevitable here. No justice no peace. That rule applies everywhere so it applies here in Balkans. I don't say videos like this are reason for wars. I say ideas that prevail in this video are same ideas that lead leaders to make bad decisions and let multiethnic areas like Balkans spiral into cruel wars. 2. Karadjordjevic dynasty was never hostile towards Habsburg. I just cant believe you could use such words. You fell for that trap. Its how pro-Habsburg historians justify what Austrians did to Serbs. I cant find any form of hostility made by Serbian dynasty towards Austrians. Dispute over Bosnia was not an act of hostility. Serbia was under huge pressure to help local population in Bosnia which saw Austrian occupation as a bad thing. Bosnian Serbs are part Serbian politics since early middle ages. Not sure how you can avoid conflict when wishes and needs of majority of local population are neglected. Serbia even avoided acts of open hostility even when local Serbian population was oppressed. Patriotic Serbs pressured Serbian dynasty to act but Serbian politicians skillfully avoided hostilities with Austrians. No rational Serb thought a war with Austria is a good thing. I think you meant that Karadjordjevic dynasty was openly pro-French and pro-Russian just like Obrenovic dynasty was openly pro-Austrian. So loss of favorite dynasty made Austrian furious. Totally different thing. 3. Blaming personal problems of Austrian officers for their bad and evil decisions is totally opposite of how you blame Serbian nationalists. It was Austrian nationalism and imperialism together with catholic fundamentalism. Not his bad relations with Women. Western historiography just downplays Austrian imperial ideology. One of the main reasons majority of Bosnia wanted to join Serbia. Serbs would be quit happy to live in prosperous and rich Austrian Empire, but acts of assimilation, ethnic engineering, sectarian divisions which made orthodox Christians less favorable group made Serbs wanting more free life even if it meant lack of economic advantages. I wish someone could prove me wrong. I just cant stand feeling that westerners are that stupid or that evil (not talking about author of the video but about historians who are source for such videos). Please prove me wrong if I am wrong. Thanks

They did succed in South Schleswig

Are you German? You have an almost perfect English accent with a slight hint of German in there lol. Am I right?

11:41 I don't think it should be called a ministry of 'confessions'. Yes, the word 'wyznanie' does mean confession, as in 'wyznanie wiary' does mean 'confession of faith', but the standalone word 'wyznanie' means religious denomination. I'd sooner translate it as 'Ministry of religious faiths and public enlightenment'.

Conspiracy theories kill democracy, full stop.

Hands away from Serbian Bosnia.

well done! what a complicated MESS ! No wonder they all went to war 1914 to dissolve this clusterfluck !

Austro-Hungary really tried to be a smart-ass and piss-off three of it's neighbors in one move.

Unglaublich : " Der behinderte Wilhelm II ist alleine verantwortlich für den Ausbruch von WK I " die billigst Art Geschichte zu erklären , eine Schande ! Vergleiche den Vertrag von Versailles , 1919 😛 Du brauchst " brainstorming " mein Freund mit dem deutschen Akzent 😮😮😂 Incredible : " Handycaped Wilhelm II nd himself is responsible for outbreak of WW I " that `s the most simple way to explain history , a shame ! To compaire with the Treaty of Versailles , 1919 😛 You need brainstorming my friend with the German accent .😮😢😂

Austrians are coping soooo hard in the comments, hooolyyy, fellas get it through your thick skulls once and for all, your empire failed it was rotten and pointless.

Mighty impressive pronunciation

Could you do a video on the “great Russian lie to Bulgaria” and the lasting impact it’s had. Would allow you to also cover Macedonia and Thrace.

They were stabbed in the back - by Serbs and French who captured Velden am Wörthersee

6:30 To be fair, panslavism was already a popular idea and a significant amount of Slavic people within the Habsburg empire were sympathetic. Obviously not all, some had similar ideas but would rather put themselves in the center, saying it is the Serbs which are in denial

0:12 You'd be surprised to learn that the origins of this war are in 1975 Hercegovina uprising. Be careful when skipping history

Im always surprized how the Hungarians and Germans thought their empire would last. You blatantly consider Slavs as Subhumans, refuse the Czechs and Slovaks any form of governance, force Hungarization on everyone in the Hungarian part. While forcing the Hungarians to learn German because they are sub humans as well. And then you get Serbia who liberated itself. So other Slavs in the empire see a Slavic state ruled by a Slavic dynasty and go "Hell yeah". Two world wars Germans thought they were superior to Slavs, two world wars they lost. The habsburg sister fuckers and their discount mongolians never had a chance against Slavic desire for self rule. To quote the very first Slavic chieftain interviewed by foreigners "Others do not conquer our lands but we conquer theirs such things will be for as long as there is a sun in the sky and swords."

Good pronunciation but “i” needs more eeee and mostly just more umphf like more power

Fiume was Italian! Wilson was an ass!

Vorarlberg is part of Switzerland

Rijeka is NOT Croatian largest city, after this sentence I stopped watching the video

This video is propaganda dog video

I am from that area and i can say this was very interesting. They dont teach you that. Croatians think it was always ours. The italian origins of whole dalmatia doesnt get spoken out loud because of nationalism. Reviewing the last 100years Croatia came out very good considering they sided always with the wrong side ( eg. Nazi Germany ). History is a bi###

As Bosnian, Im happy that Bosnia wasnt annexed by Serbia

Imperial Austria is democratic if you mind the fact that the voting system disproportionately benefited the wealth and the Germans within the Austrian half of the empire

Hey fr I keep coming back to this video and recommending it to friends such an important event in the lead up to the Great War and not enough people know about it

Ahranthal completely PANTSED Izvoltzki. But it fucked everyone. Serbia BETRAYED. Russia HUMILIATED. Poor Austria, wanting to rid itself from the Germans, only found themselves tethered all the closer to Berlin. It has been, is now and always will be some damned thing in the Balkans. Always

The French were 100% right. The last time in their Glorious History.

The Documents were in Ivolzki's hand.

In early Middle Ages Bosnia was couple hundred years part of either Serbia or Croatia (925- 1102). But Posavina, Unska (until 1527), Tropolje and Hercegovina which were part of Croatia and were stolen from Croatia after 1102, given to Bosnia by either Hungary or Ottomans to Bosnia. For. e.g. Petar Kružić died for Bihać. Hercegovina and Tropolje were Dalmatian. From 1322 Bosniq claim Hercegovina and other.

You Italians, Austrians, Serbs and Hungarian, even Slovenes, try to stole Rijeka from us Croats. /s Joke aside, we all know before Romance arrive in the name of Roman Empire here were Vučedol culture inhabitans and Illyrians, even Greeks before Rome and Slavs.

oh that von Hötzendorf....he was such a warmonger. 22:30 “public opinion”. the chimera of. as if the average person in Russia in the early 20th century, even knew where Serbia, or Bosnia, were. or cared about what the “distant” people in those places might be facing. the average person of the time in Russia was more concerned with much closer to home issues, like food and shelter. I have always had an issue with the “pressure” of “public opinion” being said to be a cause of conflict. any public opinion on the Balkan Crisis that may have existed in Russia of the time, had been whipped up by the imperialist press in St Petersburg, at the behest of those who stood to profit from such things.

Okay, so Italian troops besieged a city to force them to accept that they were independent from Italy..............

so the serbian ultranationalists were trying to start the great war for a while now, why am i not surprised.

"It would far increase the influence of Bulgaria,Russia's client state in the Balkans" I definitely wish I was less late to the party with this one but first of all it didn't just increase it's size,it put it on the map to being with for the first time since around 1368 Secondly Bulgaria wasn't THE russian aligned stae in the Balkans,overtime the serb government would prove a lot more compliant with russian commands than the Bulgarian one

Conrad von Hotzendorf… the man responsible for ww1

Useful video. Read a lot about downfall of Ottomans and political and societal structure that came with Habsburgs from peoples perspective, but never from a broader perspective. Thank you for this.

A tragedy. If he’d continued Bismarck’s diplomatic system of alliance with Russia and Austria and good relations with Britain, and his father’s support for a parliamentary system of government, the world would have been quite different.

I've been fascinated by Ludwig ever since I saw the 2012 German biopic with Sabin Tambrea. It's quite historically accurate and portrays Ludwig as a complex figure, a daydreamer with volatile temper who wasn't a good king, but still deserves some sympathy because, behind all the castle building and junk, he was actually a pretty tragic figure. It's interesting to compare him to his contemporary, Franz Joseph I., who also became an emperor at a young age and faced just as many challenges, but for all his faults was willing to face them, keeping the country together throughout most of his reign (and then he started the war that destroyed it but shhhh!).

woodrow wilson was an absolute cuck

idk if i should call hotzendorf a simp or a hopeless stupid romantic

Worth noting as well that this crisis further strained Austria-Italian relations as well, I’m surprised it wasn’t mentioned

I have question my great grandpa was born in Bosni in 1898 does that mean he was born in Ottoman empire or Austria Hungary

So Serbia is the bad guy when it claims its right in a country where 45% of the population is Serbs, and the AH empire is the good guy when it annexes a country it never had before, nor does it have its own population there. Nice angle. I would say Germanic imperial.

Imagine if the war started in 1908 GBR and France staying Neutral in a quick war.

Nice video man. It was interesting to see since I am a Serb living in the Serb Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It gives perspective on how it was seen on the outside. I would like to just point out that in our view, Serbs from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbs in general, it was not a case of "Serb nationalists want this or that", it was Serbs wanted to live free and united. AH rule in Bosnia was seen as nothing else but occupation and the struggle against it was nothing else but the struggle for freedom. The National Deffence a mere spy network, some of its leaders and prominent members were writers, poets, artists of various types. While the Serbian lineage alternated beetween the Obrenovic dynasty and Karadjordjevic dynasty (the first being oriented towards the AH Empire and the latter towards the Russian Empire), the annexation of Bosnia would not have been looked lightly upon by the people and Serbs from all across no matter who was in power. To this day, for us, AH Empire was nothing more but an imperial occupier and Gavrilo Princip is a heroic freedom fighter.

Gaijin as a sponsor = A big fat juicy dislike

It is hugely irresponsible of you to not mention that the Boer Republics were slave states and that the Dutch settlers' primary reason and motivation for maintaining independence from Britain was to keep the institution of enslavement of native Africans. That's arguably the singular reason they desired to maintain independence, as evidenced by the Dutch slaveholders' own words. I understand you only mention the Boer Republics briefly, but since their main purpose for formation was preserving slavery, even the briefest mention of them should include that fact. It's especially irresponsible for you to say that there was any reason other than preserving the instutition of slavery as to why the Dutch settlers desired independence. The British certainly weren't much better than the Boers in their treatment of native Africans, but it is horrendously academically dishonest to say the Dutch settlers' desire for independence was because of anything but slavery. It's as dishonest as saying the American civil war was not caused by slavery.

The video helps justify saying: "What started WWI? Austria was Hungry for Turkey!" (Well, old Turkish territory)