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Nordic Teutonism
Jun 19, 2023 7 tweets 3 min read
Few know this but Belarus actually had a historical minority of Germans, 9/10 being merchants which had a not-so-permanent residence in the country. Polazk/Polotsk was one of the major ones, not only had German merchants but also a significant German farmer population. ImageImage Germans founded a lot of very temporary trading outposts in eastern Europe but during the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania they'd have a decently large population around the village of Kobryn and around the city of Polotsk. Image
Jun 19, 2023 32 tweets 10 min read
Volga Germans - Wolgadeutsche:
A short overview of their history. Image The settlers had come like many other ethnicities, but mainly Germans, to settle in the lands of Russia. This is to work land which wasn't worked and in the case of Volga Germans they served the same purpose as Transylvania Saxons, to work the land and defend it. ImageImage
Jun 19, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
The Danish South-Schleswig or Danske Sydslesvigere, are the Danish minority in northern Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein. ImageImageImageImage They seem to have quite the rich history and not too badly documented
Jun 19, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
VMO / Vlaamse Militanten Orde - Flemish Militants Order 1949-1983 ImageImageImageImage ImageImageImageImage
Jun 19, 2023 4 tweets 4 min read
Freikorp Oberland originally came from Bavaria and Austria, its volunteers would go on to fight in Silesia and in Bavaria against Polish and Communists. ImageImageImageImage Freikorps Oberland was an organisation strongly tied to the early NSDAP and some of its prominent members would go on to become high ranking members. ImageImageImageImage
Jun 19, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
Bertel Thorvaldsen 🇩🇰🇮🇸, one of the greatest sons of Iceland and Denmark. Son of Gottskálk Þorvaldsson and Karen Dagnes. He became one of Europes greatest sculptors and a national hero in Denmark, inspired by his fathers woodworking he'd have a long succesful career. ImageImageImage Should as well specify, he barely spoke Icelandic even as a child and his knowledge as a child was minimal. He is a blood son of Iceland, but the culture barely affected him unless through his dad who had moved there when he was a young man.
Some works 👇 ImageImageImageImage
Jun 19, 2023 11 tweets 10 min read
The Berlin Cathedral - Berliner Dom is a Protestant cathedral built between 1894 and 1905 in Berlin by Wilhelm II, designed by Julius Carl Raschdorff. ImageImageImageImage It also houses the Hohenzollern Crypt where 94 members of the House of Hohenzollern are buried. The oldest of them buried, Johann Georg von Brandenburg, was born nearly 500 years ago. ImageImageImageImage
Jun 19, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
"Comrade, help me! Against Bolshevism, the Polish threat and famine!" A poster for the Deutsche Schutzdivision which would become one of the fighting units in Berlin in 1919 Image Commemorative zinc plaque from 1920. The plaque is of a naked soldier protecting a seedling with his hand, supposed to be symbolic of the Freikorp soldier protecting Germany. ImageImage
Jun 18, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
The Kingdom of the Gepids existed from 454-567, having come to the Pannonia Basin and settled along the Someș and Körös rivers. They settled in the late 300s in Pannonia, coming from the Carpathians and to there from Scandinavia.
They formed a rich kingdom after the Hunnic fall. ImageImage They formed a part of the Hunnic Empire when it invaded, the Ostrogoths their overlords. They'd follow the Ostrogoths and Huns in raids into Rome which helped enrich them and after the fall of the Huns this helped give the kingdom power and stability.
Jun 18, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
A part of the reason, in my opinion, behind declining Danish influence in Schleswig/South-Jutland is the loss of Rungholt.
If you didn't know, Rungholt was a major settlement in North Frisia which sank along with the rest of the Uthlande in 1362, trading center rivaling Hamburg. ImageImageImageImage There are a few legends, one which most famous involves 2 men making fun of a priest and steal items from the church, the priest then prays for God to punish these godless men. He was warned of a storm the same night and Rungholt perished, all but him and 2 church goers dead. ImageImage
Jun 18, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
The Uthlande/Utlande, the sunken lands and islands on the North Sea coast, most likely belonged to a belt of land which extended further into the north sea (with these islands only being well documented and known). They are one of the hallmarks of the ancient battle with the sea. ImageImageImage The Dutch have been by far the most succesful in this battle, but for a long time the Saxons, Frisians and Dutch had been raising dikes and attempting to stop the periodic flooding of their lands that caused massive expulsions, death and damage. ImageImageImageImage
Jun 17, 2023 6 tweets 5 min read
Bukowinadeutsche/Buchenlanddeutsche - Bukovina Germans ImageImageImageImage They were, like the Bessarabia Germans, a minority in their region but they had some villages that were German. Brown markers are villages which were founded by Germans or recieved a lot of German migration. ImageImageImage
Jun 17, 2023 12 tweets 9 min read
Nordic (Germanic) Bronze Age Items and depictions of them, a short thread Image Beltplate, worn by women ImageImageImageImage
Jun 17, 2023 11 tweets 9 min read
Baltische Landeswehr - German Freikorp that fought in the Baltic ImageImageImageImage ImageImageImageImage