Whow come they were not annexed or join Germany during hte unification states period?
In the case of Luxembourg as well their's the issue that it's Germanic, not German, that is they're a Germanic people, just as the Dutch and Swedish are, but they're not Germans and don't speak German.
prior to WW1 they were considered to be germans, only after ww1 did that really start to change. Austrians considered themselves German also, and that has been changing and is still changing. The definition of what is and what is not German changes constantly.
Ethnically yes, however anyone who'd thought they actually spoke German would've needed their head examined, even back then.
Ethnically yes, however anyone who'd thought they actually spoke German would've needed their head examined, even back then.
Ethnically yes, however anyone who'd thought they actually spoke German would've needed their head examined, even back then.
Are you serious??? There is very little difference between what is spoken in Luxemburg and what is spoken in Trier. It gives just as much sense as saying that people of Yorkshire don't speak english.
In the time we are talking about here, the only ones who spoke German (as we know it) were people in and around Hannover and Göttingen.
Previously Luxemburg was just another duchy left over from the broken HRE. Letzebürgisch is a classical (successful) attempt of splitting a dialect from a normal language continuum, declare it a language and build a country around it.
Ethnically yes, however anyone who'd thought they actually spoke German would've needed their head examined, even back then.
Ethnically yes, however anyone who'd thought they actually spoke German would've needed their head examined, even back then.
As for Lichtenstein, it only existed as independent nation after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Nobody wanted it.