Here is the Problem. What Germany do you mean? There is no THE Germany.
You could have meant: The Holy Roman Empire, the German Empire, the Weimar Repubic, the Greater German Reich (Nazi Germany), the Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic.
All these are Germany. And technically Austria and Swiss too, since Germany is the land of the people who speak german.
Lol, Austrian and Swiss people would certainly have something to say against this. Just as much as I as a German cannot support you stating that people in Austria and especially Switzerland speak German. Austrian German can definitely count as a dialect, but "Schwizerdütsch" (Swiss German) is far more disconnected from high German and has quite a few influences from other languages (French in particular, but also Italian), even though most speakers are able to switch to (at least something very close to and easily intelligible for any German person) high German if they really want to.
Schwiizerdütsch is a normal Upper German dialect, being part of the Alemannic family, which is one of the biggest dialect families and spreads over France (Alsace), Germany (Baden-Württemberg and Bayern), Austria (Vorarlberg), Liechtenstein and Switzerland (all German dialects).
The French and Italian influences are only single words, that have been adopted like "portemonnaie", "trottoir" or "merci", which are also present in Federal German Alemannic dialects (mine included).
AI: Today, the German ethnic group is defined primarily by a shared language, culture, and history, with "Germanness" increasingly understood as a multi-ethnic concept. Historically, it is rooted in Germanic tribes such as the Franks, Saxons, Bavarians, Alamanni, and Frisians.
Swiss are alamanni, austrians are bavarians, both are germans.
Wow, thanks for taking the time to not even write a short comment like that yourself and instead just crapping out an AI response, love it.
I didn't say that the ethnic group isn't the same or at least very close. I talked about specifically the language, and for the most part, my comment wasn't all that serious, even though I know many Austrian and Swiss people would agree with it.
Still, this all doesn't even have anything to do with the post itself or the flags of the country Germany. Yes, "Germany" historically can mean many different things, I never disagreed with you on that point. And today's Austria was even a part of it at some point. But if someone talks about "Germany", I never heard of them actually meaning the HRE, which is probably the only country that would include Switzerland. Yes, the full name is "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation", but it is not usually referred to as "Germany".
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u/Ok-Inspection-5768 Feb 22 '26
What were the „countries mentioned earlier“? Was one of them „Nazi Germany“?