David McWilliams
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8 series
first heard Jan 2026
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And that Germany there is defined by history.
So if you think of West German people,
the area that we grew up with as West Germany, they are in effect Roman people.
They are defined by their relationship with Rome.
Then you have another huge tribe of Germans, which used to be called, people don't use this expression anymore, East Elbia.
And East Elbia were people who lived around the Elbe River and to the east.
And they were largely Prussians.
And they were defined by...
hundreds of years of expansion to the east of Germany into what were called the Slav lands, Poland, Russia, Czech Republic.
And those people ended up in the rump of the GDR, East Germany, after the Second World War.
And their historical and genealogical and maybe even their DNA is different.
They are Prussians.
They come from a very conservative background.
They are Junkers.
So it was large agricultural holdings and a sort of a feudal peasantry.
And that would be the stout German peasant idea.
But they're defined by two things, John.
First is Protestantism.
They are overwhelming Lutherans and they've become actually atheists, number one.
And they're defined by a dislike of the Slavs.
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