Family feud refers to a person, family, or country that has hatred for generations.
The brothers are here to cross the whole robbery, and meet each other with a smile!
(The ancestors of Macron and Merkel fought for thousands of years.)
One, the origin of the conflict between France and Germany-it was originally born from the same root, so why not worry about it too quickly.
In 476, the Germanic Odoac, the leader of Roman mercenaries, deposed the last emperor of Western Rome, and Western Rome died. The three barbarians of
established a series of countries on the ruins of the Western Roman Empire, including the Frankish Kingdom.
The Frankish Kingdom (481 to 843) was a feudal kingdom established in Western Europe by a group of Germanic Franks.
In 843 AD, the Frankish kingdom was split into the West Franck kingdom, the Middle Franck kingdom and the East Franck kingdom.
The east and west Frankish kingdoms laid the national foundations of Germany and France respectively. A small part of the Middle Franconian kingdom became the embryonic form of modern Italy.
The Frankish kingdom has a vine, two large melons in France and Germany, and a small melon in Italy.
(Franken Knights.)
Second, geopolitical conflicts led to frequent fights between Germany and France for millennia, which did not end until after World War II.
Although both France and Germany originated from the Frankish kingdom, the two countries (regions) clash constantly in order to compete for interests. According to statistics, in the 1100 years before World War II, they fought more than 200 wars, both large and small, with an average of once every five years. Why does
say that there is an irreconcilable geographical conflict between France and Germany?
First, let’s analyze the geopolitical pattern of France.
France is the country with the best geographical conditions in continental Europe. France is the Pyrenees in the southwest, the Alps
in the southeast, the Atlantic Ocean in the west and the north, the Mediterranean Sea in the south, the Rhine River in the east and many low mountains.
is surrounded by dangerous mountains and oceans on all sides except the southeast.
(Large area of plains in France.)
and the French terrain is generally lowland plains and hills, with many rivers, and the estuary leading to the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
France not only has Europe's leading agricultural foundation, but also faces the sea on both sides and has many navigable rivers. France is a trading hub in North and South Europe.
Before the Industrial Revolution, France had the advantage of being a hub for agriculture and trade. Coupled with the protection of mountains and seas, France's national power has always been far beyond other countries in the European continent. Before the rise of the Second German Empire in 1871, France had always The strongest country on the European continent.
According to the above analysis, before the great nautical era, the direction of French expansion must be east (the Rhine and many low mountains to the east.) The east of
is the key to French defense and expansion, and the east of France is Who? Germany.
So can Germany stop French aggression?
Second, the geographical pattern of Germany.
(The location of Germany in Europe.)
From the map, Germany is located at the "crossroads" of Europe, the intersection of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and Northern Europe, and a trading hub.
However, this advantage was not obvious in the farming era when trade was not frequent, but after the industrial revolution, its advantage in the position of a trading hub became prominent.
Germany’s terrain is varied, with rolling mountains, plateaus, plateaus, hills, beautiful lakesides, and vast and wide plains. The broken geographical conditions of
, coupled with the four wars, and the interference of external forces, made it difficult to reunify the small German states before the Industrial Revolution.
German First Empire-Holy Roman Empire (962~1806)
For most of the history of the Holy Roman Empire, it was composed of hundreds of smaller subsidiary units, including the Hou State, Principality, County, and Free City .
(the banner of the Holy Roman Empire.)
From the above analysis, it can be seen that Germany is the inevitable expansion direction of the powerful France, and France absolutely does not want German reunification, and there will be a strong neighbor around it. Therefore, in 1871, the Second German Empire Before the birth, the French oneIt is splitting and suppressing Germany, plundering Germany’s wealth, and preventing German unification.
(French King Louis XIV.)
France has been rubbing Germany on the ground until the birth of the Second German Empire in 1871.
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