Changing the Map of Europe Back to 1933
What did Europe look like before the Second World War? This video redraws the map of Europe from 2016 to 1933 while explaining what’s happened.
1933 is only 83 years back in time, but still an entire world away. This is the year of the interwar period when the Nazis took power in Germany, leading to enormous consequences for Europe, that forever altered the political, cultural and geographical landscape of the continent.
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• The small island of Lagosta, off the Adriatic coast, is marked as part of 1933 Yugoslavia. It was in fact part of Italy.
• The eastern part of present-day Moldova (the Transnistria region) is merged into 1933 Romania. It should instead be separated and merged with the Soviet Union.
• In northern present-day Morocco, the Tangier International Zone is missing from the 1933 map.
• Spanish Morocco is shown as slighly too large.
• The Dutch province of Flevoland didn't yet exist in 1933, as it was still under water.
• The Franco-Italian border is very slightly off, as Italy in 1914 should include some minor areas of France.
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Poland after WWII: SLIDE TO THE LEFT
Polish parliment 2014: slide to the right
A Vallejo underappreciated comment
Poland in WW2 Axis forces: CRISS CROSS
Both geographically and politically
Poland after uniting with Lit-huania: Cha cha real smooth
Does anyone think Poland has the most insane border change in history? Stalin literally decided to "move" the entire country a few hundred miles west, not sure if anything else like that ever happened.
Michael Henman There is a logical reason for it. The eastern part of Poland was inhabited by Belarusans and Ukrainians so after the war Stalin gave these regions to the Belarusan and Ukrainian SSR. In exchange he gave Poland Pomerania, Silesia and parts of Eastern Prussia.
Michael Henman Eastern Poland was the "poor" ans underdeveloped part of Poland in which Belarussians and Ukranians where the majority of the Population (except for in Vilnius which had 98% Polish population and Lviv which had around 60% Polish population) and the new Polish lands being Masuria, Pomeria and Silesia where part of the Duchy of Poland in the 10th-11th century. There still are areas where Poles make up up to 80% of the population, mainly in Belarus and Lithuania around their borders, and also there are 900,000 Poles or people of Polish descent in Belarus.
Poles ruined Prussia, Stalin's biggest crime. If only East Germany had the whole territory of the former pre-Unification monarchy Communism would've probably won the Cold War.
"Poles ruined Prussia", what do you mean?
The Grand Chiefdom you should remember that the first Stalin’s crime was cleansing of Germans inhabiting Prussia, but there was second-Poles living in eastern parts of Poland didn’t want to lose their homes. They were forced like Germans, so not only Germans were victims
"More fitting color"
Blood
Łukasz Florkowski *V* *O* *D* *K* *A*
*Союз нерушимый республик свободных* *Сплотила навеки Великая Русь!* *Да здравствует созданный волей народов* *Единый, могучий Советский Союз!*
Union of the indestructible republics free Made Great forever by Great Russia! Long live the people's will A single, mighty Soviet Union!
Dr. plague United forever in friendship and labour Our mighty republics will ever endure The great Soviet Union will live through the ages....
Is it bad that I'm more familiar with the 1933 map of Europe than the modern day one due to HOIV xD
Yeet
Same here
Me 2
Robert Li same lol and it is not bad
Me too Xd
Poland: Slide To The Left Nordic: Slide to the Right Axis: Criss Cross
My grandmother was 1 when Europe looked like this. She’s still alive today.
oof xd my grandpa was 11. But he died R.I.P.
My great great great grandpa was born in the German empire
AgniKai oh uhm cough cough
My grandmother was 5 when Europe looked like this. She’s still dead from lung cancer today!
My great grandfather was 5
"This is what europe is supposed to be" Serbia: *Looks at Kosovo* Well yes but actually no.
*laughs in crimean*
*wheezes in somaliland and western sahara*
@@snivylink2119 Crimea 🇺🇦
@@soundofhistory Unpopular opinion: Crimea 🇬🇷
Hoi4, is that you?
Republika ng Pilipinasball _ *German Reich has invited you to their faction* *Accept* *Decline*
*Decline*
@@xXxfandehalflifexXx Bold move
@@marcnassif2822 *Transmission from Poland* *Poland has joined the Comintern*
Nah we don't have Saar, Liechtenstein, San Marino, Vatican City, Andorra or Danzig
How about 1815? You don't have to put in all the German or Italian states.
I'll put it on my list, and we'll see what happens :)
Sammy Hoskins I
Sammy Hoskins Imagine 1798 lol
iolohasnofriends. That Would Be Intense
iolohasnofriends. What about 1618 lol
Next up we’re gonna give Russia a more fitting color.... Turns it Red Lol
Well yeah, because it's the Soviet Union back then.
Brady Haley Russia was still the Soviet Union
@@paithoonnamsena346 These days Russia the country and Russia the state are the same back then it was not so, the USSR was the state that ruled the country of Russia.
How about 1500 europe?
JakeR i wish 1500 wasn't a thing than. Poland rules!!
Mirogod +1
I think Lithuania was a lesser partner in the union because Poland was a kingdom and Lithuania was a grand duchy, The Kingdom of Poland + Grand Duchy of Lithuania = Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. But I may be wrong, as Jagiellon was king of Lithuania before Poland
You should play Europa universalis 4, great game. Goes from 1444 to 1821
The thing is, he was a grand duke. A duke has less power and Authority than a King, so he had to become a king. Poland was a KIngdom, so he claimed the title of the king of Poland. He was the King of Poland and Ruled Poland, he had his claim on the Lithuanian throne, but he put his brother there to govern Lithuania. By becoming the King of Poland, he had more authority as he was a king. Because the Only Kingdom in the Personal Union was Poland, Poland was ruling making any other duchy in this sort of united nation. Back then they had a hierarchy, and a King is higher than a duke or a grand duke. If Lithuania was a 'Petty Kingdom' Then Lithuania would be almost at the same level as a normal KIngdom when it comes to the hierarchy in the medieval times. Besides that, if Poland was an Empire and had an emperor, then the title of the Emperor allows to give the titles of KIngs, simply put: Titles did the work, becouse it was a Polish title, Poland had more to say.
2:13 - Slight mistake. Moldova today includes a little sliver of land sandwiched between the River Dniester and its eastern border - Transnistria, which is actually an unrecognized breakaway state, but anyway. Back in 1933, Moldova's (Romania's) border was set at the River Dniester, with Transnistria being part of the Soviet Union. Seeing how narrow the country is, it probably wouldn't even show up on this map, but I just thought I'd point it out.
You are right-I can't believe I forgot about it! How embarrassing :|
Damn you beat me to it
I am impressed that you noticed! Good for you :)
Yes. Another little thing I noticed is that Hungary was marked "unchanged", when in fact, Hungary owned a little territory just south of Bratislava, that was given to Czechoslovakia in 1947. It's not a huge deal, but it was still definitely a thing.
It isn’t recognised by anyone in the UN however
"We're gonna give Russia a more fitting colour" STALIN APPROVES
I bet in 100 years time you and I will be on some future version of youtube watching some guy talk about 2016 borders compared to 2116 borders and how different they look.
Europe will just be entirely Switzerland
Only you, I'll be dead
you think you will survive that long?
don't think europe will change anymore except for the balkans and russian borders...
@@juan.3077 By then, life expediency would be so high thanks to medical breakthroughs, so hard maybe.
1914 's map is a lot more different
Well ofc there had been a world war in between
Flash oh rlly?
He's the one stating the obvious, I was making fun of him
Aragorn Strider nah, really?
NOOOOOOOOOOH I NEVER KNEW
Who else knows all of this simply from HOI4 gameplay?
Me
I'm pretty sure everybody lol
Never seen this channel. Very good and original with new content.
Thank you for mentioning the Russian-occupied areas of Petserimaa and Jaanilinn. Those small Estonian border territories are almost never shown.
@Femonic The Hot uh ok
I don’t see Lichtenstein...
it's far too insignificant
Andreastom You're far too insignificant
Tutoi 3 probably because Lichtenstein isn't a country
休んでるパンダ it is
I can ensure you that's not how my country's spelt.
I still come back to this video time to time, it’s just so well made:)
Atleast the balkan looks better
How exactly? The Balkans are split with the treaty of Berlin still in effect. Ripe and ready for plunder just as the west wanted them. Bulgaria once the strongest of all is still striped from territories that would have more than doubled it's size today. The Romans are long gone but Bulgaria and Serbia still existed. In Bulgaria's case the goal was to repurpose the assets of a fallen empire create states some with historical identity based on pure fiction then milk them off one by one with the original state they belonged to lacking the strength to intervene. Like a parent who's hands are tied while some adult beats their child in front of their very own eyes. No i don't think they look better.
Agreed. One Yugoslavia! Would make a great combined soccer-team! 🙂
@Dragon Dimosthenis greeks and dacians(romanians)
@@YOURTECHFRIEND But that wouldn't be fair^^
Big smoke They are the ancestors of romanians, they were romanised after the romans conquered Dacia after the second roman-dacic wars, because in the first ones the dacians were victorious over the romans.
Nice video this is very much improved from the WW1 video and I very much look forward to more history videos from you and yeah I know you made a history of Sweden video,but it would be much appreciated if the video had English subtitles or was remade in English.
Thank you! I also think it turned out better than the 1914 one. As for the video about Sweden's history, I'm definitely considering making a version for English speakers, but I can't say when it would be released.
Can you do Europe in 1989?
Besides Germany, Yugoslavia and the USSR it's the same, not much to change
@@romaniangamer1 And Czechosovakia.
1444
@@dragonaspect22 a fellow EU4 player IS IT?
An extremely interesting and well-done video.
Hungary DID change in 1947. It became even smaller than in 1920 because three villages around Bratislava were ceded to Czechoslovakia and they are now part of Bratislava. The area was called the "Bridgehead of Bratislava".
You do realize these are the 1933 borders right?
@@lin7823 Yes, and 1933 was before 1947.
@@Debre. do you are have stupid?
@@cooikemint Are you trying to tell me 1933 was after 1947 or...?
@@Debre. no im saying if the change happened in 1947 then when it was 1933 it the change hasnt happened yet
that moment when you play so much hearts of iron that the map of 1933 looks like the normal one
Pls add more vids like this! They are great!
Please do more continents. Great video.
Awesome video ! How about version of 31 August 1939 ? Still many borders it is different then 1933
Not a bad idea at all!
Alright, let’s give Germany the entirety of Austria. Also some of the Czech republic. And we’re done!
and half of poland and half france and netherlands and belgium and luxemburg and half of soviet union lets give soviet union the baltics and half of romania.
The comment says August 1939 pal. The war hadn't started yet.
CipiRipi00 Hey, what's that radio broadcast
Bra video, great video. I would recommend it to others.
Bra is a part of a woman's clothing
@@lin7823 In Swedish, it just means "good".
This really helped with the WW2 video I did. Thanks!
Great video
There are also little differences at the border between Italy and France; in 1947 Italy has given some little territories (Briga, Tenda, Valle Stretta etc) to France
Hey, could you do this again but with 1914 or 1910? Thanks my dude and awesome video
Thanks! Here is the 1914 one: kzhead.info/sun/Z5pyitBwpWeldZs/bejne.html
Thank you!
Good video
nearly perfect borders, world war 2 ruined them
+JC7595 Nah, Austria should still be in the German nation.
Person Human Austria wasn't annexed until 1938 tho
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth he's saying Austria should be part of Germany today
No there were many mistakes, Russia controlled too many people groups. Hungary is too small, Bulgaria too, Yugoslavia is better split up, part of Germany and France should be with the Benelux, no united Ireland, Danzig as a free city, Polish under German control, the middle east and Magreb are fucked up. I am not saying that todays borders are better but the old borders were terrible too. Nationalism ruined Europe's chance to fix them peacefully
Nationalism isn't nazism. Natio-Socialism is nazism. But nationalism is the worse part about nazism in my opinion
I think it is hard for someone born in this age and in a country whose borders have not changed significantly by conflict and war to imagine this. People tend to live in the moment and take things for granted and rather static. This kind of change happened a long time ago from out retrospective, they think. But in fact, the world is still changing, and thanks to the Internet in ways that transcend both geographical and political lines. Although, the changes are subtle.
You forgot the italian colonies in dalmatia
I seem to have missed the island of Lagosta, but besides that Italy's Dalmatian territories are all marked.
SoulsHunter did you just say colonies wtf
SoulsHunter that was in ww2 not before.
F1RacingFans Iraq got independence in 1932
SoulsHunter pretty sure dalmatia was one of the reasons Mussolini was so angry
You should do 1942 before Operation Torch. It's even more different from today than 1933, and was when Nazi Germany was at its height.
Disputed territories like Crimea and Kosovo should be marked with stripes, but other than that great video.
Kosta M. Nope, Kosovo is independent 🙂
user new I want it to be but if it becomes FULLY independent then half of my entire country goes into serbia
domestic pigeon actually if there are serbs let them have it. If in northern kosovo there are serbs i dont care if serbia takes it. Im albanian. If there are bosnians in montenegro bosnia should have it. Its not about occupying
Include Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Northern Cyprus in that case.
Denis Saliaj Also there are Albanians in South Serbia.
100 years ago. *Europe is Germany* The only countries untouched are these: *Switzerland & Switzerland only*
There’s Austria,Hungary,Norway,Sweden,The Netherlands,Belgium and Portugal as well.
@@akaanchan All of them excluding portugal had a war
@@rajaemanrm sweden
@@alexanderpower2195 Sweden had war with Denmark if I am not mistaken
Malaysia 123 Portugal was Involved in WWI
Could you make a link for the map?
your accent seems to be native but an r in the 'home rule' 4:43 sounded really interesting
Very good video but I think that you forgot the Tangier International Zone in Northern Africa.
You are right! How embarrassing :(
You should do more map videos Some suggestions are 1815,1871 and 1946
Darth1nsidious7 1871 - 1914 but the Ottomans are bigger, Bosnia belonged to the Ottomans too
@@sciblastofficial9833 not in 1914, or in 1913, austria annexed it in 1908
What did you use to make the map
How do you do these maps?
117 European borders are the best
Oh I get it
ROMA·INVICTA
A map of November 1938 after the First Vienna Award would be nice, for me this borders were nearly perfect.
Could you do an 1815 map? Right after the nepolionic Wars
What Maps do you use for these?
I think a video for 1815 or 1789 would be interesting. Though all the hre states...
Cstick An 1815 video is released
Could you do 1945 please. Great Video
Very interesting
How did you do this?
5:20 There, Verdun. I'm sorry, I'll just proceed to leave
he said were done
@@juan.3077 it's a pun...
@@jannovotny4797 imma go r/wooooooosh myself
Fields of Verdun
@@AdamRuAlright and the battle has begun
All the people saying "this part should go to this country" is just stupid. First of all you can infinitely use this argument until Europe has the same borders it did 1000 years ago, plus imagine the political mess and the violence that would result if something like that were to happen. Look what happened during the Yugoslav wars, that would happen again and no one wants that.
brazil should have urgay
Kosovo is Yugoslavia
I am serbian and yes i would prefer for the argument of kosovo to go on our side but the best proposal jus stop it and let the people in there live how they want it was a part of aerbia and is just stupid for a eqr to happen just live peacefully there and idk be peaceful?
Give. Prussia. Lands
@@chip1646 Stfu nazi .
Iceland became independent in 1918, it still shared a monarch with Denmark since the two were in personal union (like England and Scotland from 1603 to 1707), but was an independent country. Also, in Morocco, the Tangier International Zone is missing.
What app are u using
Modern Bosnia: We want a beach! Modern Kroatia: *i dOn’T tHinK sO*
2:21 Romania was perfect back in the good ol' days. (Even though the Bulgarian part of Romania was not needed)
Sadly fascists ruined it. If Romania was a part of allies they would maybe even have a bit larger territory than 1933 one.
Bulgarians on the south, rusyns russians ukranians on the north,and hungarians on the west. Nope it was not perfect,it was only made because the allies wanted to,not because it was fair considering the minorities. It was like Yugoslavia but in a smaller scale.Moldova was deserved doe.
@@feha6580 Hungarians were and still are a minority,then Bessarabia is also kinda unnecessary,but there are still Romanians living there and not the complete south was filled with Bulgarians the majority were the Romanians and it wasn't the Allies who wanted it like this because there were no Allies until in the begging of WWII I think you meant the Entente,if you think that a minority should rule over a country where the majority should live under the minorities rule then I can't help you.
*Romania was perfect in 1914... :D
Ok boomer
Cool! You should do 1914 next!
I already have :) kzhead.info/sun/Z5pyitBwpWeldZs/bejne.html
Greece:*Calm* Him:says Macedonia and that Italy has some of their islands Greece:*TRIGGERED*
MORE!!
Hungary lost 3 villages near Bratislava to Czechoslovakia in 1945. So it is not true, that the borders of Hungary are the same as they were in 1933.
Fejes László *y e a h s o t r u e t h a t 3 t i n y s p e c s m a t t e r w h e n y o u a r e t a l k i n g a b o u t o n e o f t h e l a r g e s t k i n d s o f l a n d f o r m s a n d i f t h o s e c h a n g e s a r e v i r t u a l l y i n v i s i b l e.* *noice*
Heh, when you listen to about 1:51 or 1:52 over again, you notice that how he says "Armenia" is a little funny. He's like "Arm-MEE-nyaa". He must have an accent, or something. Great video, by the way. Very accurate, except maybe you should have put in the Demilitarized Rhineland Zone. Where are you from?
I have a new favourite channel
Russia should give the areas back to Finland, at least Vyborg and Petsamo
Yeah, but idk if Finland would want the Russian residents inside its border.
They should give back just Petsamo and Salla, Karelia has too many people
Elementalic Most of the population is Russian, it’s better off in Russia.
give finland arctic ocean access ;(
No
Guys enough about Kosovo and Crimea the map he has was made by someone who thinks Kosovo is independent and Crimea is a part of Ukraine they get removed later why do you need to fight about it
you're overdue for a new video on one of these
Yes.
Do artillery only challenge!
Poland, move it! Aww, again? Hush, or next time you'll be moved out of Europe!
Remembering Eesti and Latvija lost lands to Russia when anexed by the USSR, you get a like.
how do you do it?
Can you make a video of map of Europe of 700 ad
You forgot to give Zadar to Italy
No, this is marked on the map.
Academia Cervena true, but i don’t think you mentioned it. also, minor border changes were between italy and france and czechoslovakia snd hungary, which should be mentioned as you did that jordan saudi thing
Do Europe in 1980 please
Do a world version of this
Can you make a video of Europe in 1297
(Jag vet att du är svenne därför skriver jag på svenska) Gör en till fast ändra kartan så att den ser ut som Europa 1648. Det var då det 30 åriga Kriget slutade.
Ja. Det skulle vara kul! Gör om kartan till 1648
Jag håller med. Fortsätt med detta.
Nobody: HOI IV players: Ah, Yes
Do a video with Europe in 1600 please.
Can you make a changing the map of Europe to 1949
Netherlands annexed a small part of germany post ww2
That's true. For the sake of simplicity I've ignored territorial changes that are so small that they wouldn't be visible on the map to begin with.
Academia Cervena fair enough nice work!
gerardvdelshout Which part?
They gave it back
they returned it in 1963
Awesome video. What about a map for 1920. A lot of thighs have changed
thighs changing? Sounds painful.
AAA, MY THIGHS ARE CHANGING. Fs dude can u even try
would the map of 1988 be more or less be the same aside from eastern germany?
U S S R
no. finland, estonia, latvia, lithuania, poland, the ussr, romania, italy, bulgaria, west germany and greece would have all been different and some colonies in asia, sourthern europe, and africa on the map
Happy new year 🎊 2019!
The Romanian-Bulgarian border and the German-Polish border aren't really that accurate
I agree that I should've adjusted them a bit.
You missed the Hungarian-Czslovak border. Hungary lost 3 villages near Bratislava after ww2.
@Luka Kirasić yeah, thats what he said, so therefore those 3 villages should go to hungary in this map, as it is 1933
More maps plz
This was cool
The bad thing is that since I play hearts of iron 4 so much, the 1933 one looks way more familiar since I also live in america
Don't worry. I'm with you on that boat as well.
How about 1011
How about 65 million years ago.
He should do 1950, to show changes post-WWII
you forgot a small part that italy controled in the cost of yugoslavia, im not talking about istria, there was another one. but the video is really good so im just gonna turn a blind eye
5:38 yeah my grandma
._.
"We're gonna give Russia a more fitting colour" Why do I hear Red Alert music?
Is this the new 1933 start date for HOI 4 or
already know this map by heart. thanks hoi4