American Reacts to 25 Interesting Facts about Germany 

The main reason for videos being blocked on RU-vid is not censorship, but copyright, and most of the time it is the owner or creator who request this blocking.

The fact about 60% of videos being blocked is outdated. Today pretty much no Videos are blocked anymore, the reason why they were blocked many years ago is due to germanys strict copyright laws

Just to make it clear. If you flee from a prison there won't be charges against you for fleeing. But oc you will get charged when you comitted other crimes while fleeing like blackmailing/taking hostages/murder etc. So you cant just kill some guards, walk out, get caught again and they're like "Uh.. he just wanted to be free. Forget about the corpses" :D

The blocked content issue has long been solved. It was all about copyright issues and creators being paid.

The 9x bigger than Paris claim is the surface of the administrative entity that actually bears the name “Paris” or “Berlin“. In terms of population, the two are much closer. In terms of urbanised area including suburbs, Paris is much bigger - only large parts of it aren’t called „Paris“.

Berlin actually has 2 Zoos... the older "Zoologischer Garten" wich is located directly in the City Center between Kurfürstendamm and the district of Tiergarten, is indeed the largest Zoo when it comes to indivudual species in exhibition ... but not by area covered. The "Tierpark Berlin" in the east covers an area that is almost triple the size.

In the list of inventions, a glaring omission! Germany invented the automobile. Didn't you react a couple of months back to that cool little MB promo vid about Bertha making the world's first 'road trip'? 🤣

Hugo Boss did NOT design those uniforms. The notorius black SS Uniform was designed by Karl Diebisch. Boss was just one of the tailor factorys, that made those uniforms.

On the first magazine topic: German inventor Johannes Guttenberg invented printing, so the German region (at that time there was no united Germany as today) was the first in Europe to mass-produce printed works.

Hamburgers - Hamburg Frankfurters - Frankfurt. The Beatles incident was in 1960 when they were still teenagers, and long before they were famous. They were accused of attempted arson by the owner of the club where they were staying.

this is an old video. some facts are not true anymore. like the population is about to hit 84 mio. and is growing. YT videos were blocked because of copyright and licenze issues. this is solved. and the energy is at moment more than 50% and fast growing. greetings

Biggest zoo in Germany was new to me, too. And I am German. Fun Fact: Germany has the most Zoos in the World, more than 400, if I'm not wrong.

Hey hey IWrocker, I just recently start watching your channel, because a friend told me it is good. So i started checking it out, so scrolled out some videos from way back and such. (I'm from the netherlands tho) But i've seen most videos comparing USA with different Europe countries, including the dutch and stuff. I'm shocked to see that most US education not evolve the rest of the world, as most of Europe are teached fro young age in multi-languages we have to learn (like here, we learn Dutch (ofc) English, French, German as basic) and the schools i went to, i had to learn italian, spanish, and even greek. This is only the language package. On history, or world knowledge, we have to learn about the europe factor ofcourse. Like you need the learn the US factors. But we get the US factors in classes aswell, even all the way to china, and the world figures, what they all did and stand for till the current day!! So i dont get it why are the US so involved with theirselfs? And know nothing or so less about the world! I travelled alot, been in the US alot aswell, but they seem to know nothing... about the rest of the world... well most of them... The first time i met a dear friend of mine (she is born and raised in the US) she was mind blown by the thing we do, and know... Like me being dutch and speak english (maybe not the " perfect" english) but she can clearly understand me.... So hell ya, i wanted to coment on you're older videos, like recently, but i thought you wouldn't read it, because the videos go way back. That is why i just posted it now and here... Very nice regards, and really love your channel!

5:33 It is because of copyright reasons... It has nothing to do with governmental censorship or something. It is how it is... Edit: Germany is very, very strict if it comes to copyright stuff. They block stuff for preventional reasons so no one can complain...

I think I mentioned it before, it is illegal to stop on the Autobahn in general, other than for a emergency. Running out of fuel is not a emergency, as it can be prevented by the driver before entering the Autobahn. Thus it wins you a ticket if you break down without fuel there. As for the condoms... there is not specific law of that kind. The Beatles were messing around setting condoms on fire in their hotel room, causing damage to the room, so they got kicked out. It is illegal to set a condom on fire while someone is still wearing it, though.... :)

Running out of fuel on the Autobahn ... there are gas stations directly at the Autobahn and even signs like "next gas station in 30 km". You actually can't miss them! :) So running out of fuel ... come on! Even the car informs the driver quite early that (s)he needs to tank the car by time! ^^+gg To the Coke and Fanta topic: These drinks taste in Germany very different than in the US as they use different type of sugar. In the US it's corn syrup - if I am not mistaken - and in Germany sugar beets, which is btw. healthier as it contains calium, iron and magnesium, too.

Regarding your question: Can we see you in Germany? Yes. Greetings from Germany, Thuringia (Gera). I also learned something I didn't know about Hoogo Boss either. Fact 26 the hamburger steak (patty) was originally raw. It still exists, it's known as Beefsteak Tatar or Mett (Hackepeter). Fact 27 The lederhosen are old, but the dirndl (dress) only came into being at the end of the 19th century. PS: It comes from Bavaria and only 13 Mil. of the 85 million Germans are Bavarians (only in October and festivals). It's like Texas. Because "all" Americans are not cowboys.

@Hamburgers there are several theories how that came to be, but one that I personally like the best is: It comes from the Hamburger Frikadelle, which some people put on a bake roll... Someone brought that over to the US and bam, the Hamburger Frikadelle became the Hamburger :)

The first adventure zoo in the world, however, is Hagenbek's Tierpark in Hamburg. Karl Hagenbek was the inventor of gridless animal husbandry (1896) and was the first to design the enclosures according to the natural habitats of the respective animals.

GER certainly isn't the most capitalist country!

On my way to my professionschool, i run out on gas on the autobahn . The police was allready watching me i changed to neutral after my engine stopped and rolled on the stoppinglane to the next gasstation were my car stoped i needd to push it a few steps to refill and the police were amazed->dissapointed😅

4:27 - Or diesel. Motor vehicles don't run only on gasoline. 😉

6:22 whenever we gather up and go relic hunting... in 6 years now, not counting the pandemic pause, we've never had a detector trip without finding at least one uxo, in some parts, we have the number that links us directly to the disposal units, because they already know us and as such it's faster and saves up some bureaucracy.

I think in Melbourne Australia you can get fined for running out of petrol on the Westgate Bridge. As there are service stations/fuel stations leading up to the Bridge so you have plenty of opportunities to make sure you have petrol

U can still get in trouble for escaping the prison if u damage furnishings like the bars or windows of a prison, or if u hurt someone, steal something etc. If u are able to break free without braking a law, then its legal. So u have to be very smart

Oh, you actually CAN prevent a car from breaking down on the highway. Our mandatory inspection by officials every other year, to check if the vehicle is still safe to drive on the roads (especially the highway) does exactly that. When I was a kid we went to the Netherlands one time (when the cars there still had yellow head lights...) and I was wondering, why there were so many cars on the side of the highways. And my father responded "Because they don't have TÜV."

07:16 it's not a coincidence! The main royal families of Europe and Russia have been connected between each other for centuries! If you want to know more about that, or history of Europe in general, I strongly suggest the channel Extra History. They made an amazing job of explaining the history of Catherine the Great of Russia and other important royals that shaped the history of Europe. Also, they explained really well the seminal tragedy, the series of events that brought to WWI and consequently also to WWII and other issues we are still dealing with today.

I just love my country 😊 living in the US for several years . I appreciate it even more ❤

Ian. You mentioned Hugo Boss Cologne. Not everyone knows the amazing history of the first 4711 Cologne from over two hundred years ago and how it is named after its originating German city of Cologne or as it is spelt in Germany Koln : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QBmcTvXUqFA.html From this I just learnt about the 4711 house number connection.

The Hugo Boss uniform "fact" is kind of an urban legend. The company did manufacture uniforms as one of many factories but did not design them.

there's a new video that will be right up your alley Ian it's called "more than hoons, 100yrs of newcastle motorsport" it covers the history of motorsport culture in newcastle australia, speedway, hill climb, street racing, supermoto, v8 supercars. you'll love it.

Rule #1 all facts may be out of date or inaccurate, so maybe lists like this can always be subject to update.

Back then youtube was having a fight with our music licensing agency, so all videos containing copyrighted music where blocked. As you can imagine that is quite a lot of videos, even back then. After the dispute was settled and youtube started paying for music use all videos where unblocked That the video is pretty old can be seen at the renewables share as well, afaik we are over 40% now

Actually the first Christmas tree originated in Germany but the first decorated tree was in Riga Latvia in 1510.

The hamburgers not only have the name of Hamburg, the hamburger was also invented in Hamburg! A Hamburg immigrant family took the recipe and idea with them to the USA. Because there was no hamburger bread in the USA at the time, he put the meat patty between two normal slices of bread.

Tried some videos from the list and they are 100% not blocked :) It think that was a while ago because of an clash between the german "GEMA" and youtube because of copyright issues etc. But its resolved by now

11:05 not to mention the car.... 😁

6:15 certain private companies deal with that stuff. sometimes gouvernmental origanizations might be involved, but mostly stuff like that gets contracted to specialized companies.

well "renewable Energy" isn`t technical correct, since we can only transform energy from one form to another form of energy (example solar energy gets transformed into electricity energy to be used etc.)

You should react to the Dutch police finding torture chambers.

Some videos were blocked in Germany due to legal battles with GEMA, German Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights, a government-mandated society that collects fees for public showing/playing of content from singers, musicians and songwriters. If I remember correctly (it’s been some years) it had something to do with GEMA wanting RU-vid to pay fees to show artists’ videos, but YT refused, causing GEMA to block content from being shown on YT. Although the society was founded to protect the artists’ rights, artists often found themselves on the downside because they couldn’t show their own content on YT to access a wider audience. Fun fact: Germany was the first welfare state and the first to implement universal healthcare in the late 1800s.

lots of "semi-true" "facts" in compilations like this ... eg running out of fuel on the autobahn is NOT directly illegal (there is no such explicit law), but stopping without good reason is, and since there are enough fuel stations and you can/should always check your fuel in time, "running out of fuel" is no such unexpected emergency, making it "indirectly illegal".

You should really watch some vids about iceland... about those Highlandroads, awesome landscape, the people etc. Greeting from germany

That video is from 2015 and it shows. It was the same year that RU-vid won their dispute against GEMA in court and a year later, they came to an agreement on copyright charges so #10 is no longer true. That also means that for #18 the amount of renewable energy has more than doubled in the decade since then. Germany might have been a pioneer when it comes to deploying photovoltaic but as a whole, the decarbonisation of the electricity production in both Germany and the USofA actually follows a very similar curve over the last decade, so there is nothing to be jealous of for you. It's a recurring thing I see from US Americans who don't realise just how big the renewable energy efforts in their own country are.

4:00 well it is illegal to stop on the autobahn in general. if it is something you couldn´t prevent from happening (like running out of gas you surely can) then you´ll be fine

It is a 60 EURO fine if you get stuck on the autobahn due to an empty tank.

3:13 You shouldn't search for _first magazin ever,_ but for *_Erbauliche Monaths-Unterredungen_*

August 1960: Beginning of a world career. The Beatles' career began in Hamburg on August 17, 1960.

Title of the Magazin was edifying monthly talks. The blocked videos come about because we pay close attention to copyright law.

The Berlin Zoo is not only the largest in the world, it is also the most species-rich zoo in the world.

The thing is, most prisoners who try to escape, are doing crimes while they escape and for these crimes they can get punished obvsly. But lets say someone escapes quiet and without victims on the way out, the person just goes back to jail

About the jailbreak not being punished: That is technically true, but you are almost always comitting offenses to do it, if nothing else, the damage you do to the prison cell or the locks you break. So while you are not punished for escaping in itself, you will of course be prosecuted for any crimes you commit to break out of jail.

The running out of fuel being illegal should amended by "out of negligence or intent". If you have a broken fuel line, and run out of gas, no prob. It's just that a car running out of fuel often looses a lot of its hydraulic assistents, such as powered steering, hydraulic brakes, etc. Also many cars will loose a lot of their electronic assistents as well, such as ABS, traction or lane control, etc. All of that means that a fast driving vehicle suddenly may become much less safe to drive at those speeds. That's the predominant reason why you shouldn't run out of fuel on the Autobahn. Next, gas stations are usually spaced less than 25 km from each other along the Autobahn, either directly as reststops, or shortly after an exit as a so-called Autohof. That means once your warning light for low fuel lights up, you should be able to reach the next gas station easily on the emergency reserve. So running out of fuel in anything but extreme cases is definitely preventable. Breaking down definitely is NOT fineable in Germany. Edit: Germany's population is now 84 million but mostly due to refugees or immigrants. Germany definitely needs a boost if young families wanting to live, work, and pay taxes here. Our demographic is changing to an aging country but our social systems need a basically Christmas tree shape across all age groups. Many young, and fewer old people. Currently this is shifting higher and higher up, and the number of children is barely sufficient to account for the number of people going into retirement. That's why Germany has been moaning about the Fachkräftemangel, the lack of specialized crafts and trades people for the last two decades at least. Edit 2: copyright and blocked RU-vid videos: a) this has already been resolved several years ago; b) nope, what so many people claimed here that it was copyright infringement, not totally correct. In Germany there's a public organization called GEMA, a society that tries to have every creator and author aloft a copyrighted production recieve their legal allotment of their royalties. The GEMA usually settles contracts with any company, TV, radio, or any other media outlet on a small fee to be paid, which is then distributed to the original creator. As RU-vid didn't have any official contracts with their creators paying them directly for their content, the GEMA issued a demand to Google to rectify that situation. As Google didn't want the hassle, they simply blocked any IP addresses from Germany from seeing certain content. However, this has been settled at least eight years ago amicably. So there are no blocked videos anymore in Germany on RU-vid unless a content creator specifically demanded such a ban.

Checks for a magazine from the 17th century and just looks at photo covers. Meanwhile, two are just text and they weren't looked at!

In charge of defusing WW II bombs is a special section of the army, called "Kampfmittelräumdienst". Many old amunition is also found in the north sea. Before surendering all ships threw the ammo over bord. Many fisherman have died because of ammo in fishing nets.

The video blocks where because of GEMA the association of music artists and composers. They sued Google for using copyrighted music etc. so those videos where blocked until they reached an agreement in 2017. The Beatles lived in Hamburg for a while and sharpened their skills playing on the Reeperbahn before becoming famous. They got in a disagreement with a club owner there and he reported Harrison for working underage and when McCartney and Best burned a condom for light he reported them for attempted arson. They got deported for that. I don't think that burning condoms was illegal (but it was 60 years ago, so maybe). It makes for a tasty clickbait though.

I was born in Germany .. it feels cool to see this. Also i must say that i believe that you cowboys are always welcome here. I can't speak for all of us of course, but I think we can't be thankful enough for what your grandfathers did here and risked in ww 2. The most amazing thing is that the allies made it possible for this country to grow and heal after the war. Without these decisions, the economic miracle would never have been possible.

6:15 The problem is, all bombs with timed fuses, whose fuses were not activated on impact (because they hit soft ground and then settled into the ground with the tip up, so that the acid did not activate the fuse), now and then explode by themselves, because the plastic valve used is crumbling. I can't guarantee the explanation, but that's how I saw and understood it in a documentary. 🙃 A few years ago a bomb had to be blown up in the Wadden Sea off the coast, I lived 2 miles away and got mighty scared by the bang - even though I knew it was happening. 🙈

🤣The Berlin Zoo is almost bigger than the whole country of Austria!

Fanta -> Was taken as Shortname for Fantastisch

Running out of fuel is really hard in Germany. There is just no long distance like you could do in the US

A few corrections, as the video is old: population is closer to 84 mil now YT videos aren't blocked anymore renewable energy is close to 50% that lighting a condom wasn't the problem for the Beatles, it was just that two of them were underage.

There are alot of american react to germany what ever.... But your vids are soo good... Keep on wrocking👍

The thing about 1% HIV- immunity is, that they are actually immune to the pest (which ravaged through germany several times and fell together with the 30 year war, a collective trauma to this day). Immunity to the Pest also grants immunity to HIV for some reason.

If u ever visit germsny u recomment zoo leipzig more It might not be the bigest zoo but it has or at least at some point had the bigest indor rsinforest and the inclosures of the animals are verry well thought through and spacious for each animal the zoo had to go a loooong way to achive that drom way to small cages to nice big open areas

At the end of 2002, renewables already made up at least 45% of Germany's electricity power mix. The video is a few years out of date.

Ja Point 8. Is really strange that USA hasn't that much green energy because you have so much space

Currently the quote of renewable energy in Germany is up to 48% of last reports.

It is so strange, that still people die because of bombs that were dropped ~80 years ago. The men in charge of the defusing are from the Kampfmittelräumdienst (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service) or Munitionsbergungsdienst (Ammunition Recovery Service) These are state units.

Re: the bomb cleanup from WWII, France has a similar thing from WWI. Look up the "Récolte de Fer" (Iron Harvest) and "Zone Rouge" (needs no translation). The world wars are still very much with us.

About renewable energy one, sadly, has to state that bio mass is counted as a renewable source of energy in the country. Germany imports most of the bio mass. The problem is that this bio mass consists of shredded forests to an uncertain degree. It is not sufficiently monitored if the forests out of which the bio mass is soruced are managed in a sustainable way.

8:15 ask Exxon for example ;)

No. 14 : Yes, because the European Royal houses married among themselfes for the last hundreds of years. So of course they can be cousins. For example: The husband of Queen Elisabeth of England was Mr.Mountbatten; The name originated from the German Town Battenberg (berg means mountain in german), because he was half german and half greek. Yes, greek. So you see, very international. Best wishes from a german girl ❤

The name of "Hamburger" is a short term from "Hamburger Schnitzel".

Escape from prison is not punished, but, every crime you commit during the escape, and while you're on the run, will be prosecuted and punished. For instance, if you hurt one of the guards, who tries to stop you from escaping, you will be prosecuted for this crime, or if you steal money, while on the run, you are going to be prosecuted for theft.

Invented the portable cassette player. Walkman is a TM of Sony.

Blocked videos on RU-vid. That sounds strange. But the reason is not censorship, but a strict copyright law.

As of 2022, we have 84.3 million inhabitants

It is not illegal to escape from a prison, but is illegal to saw you through the bars outside of your window. So when you get cought you dont get an penalty for the escape but for the damage to foreign property! 🙂 And germany invented mp3!

@1:50 Wow, for some reason you got it exactly right, even though the video is not just misleading but wrong in how they phrased it. You'll still get punished for everything else, e.g. if you need to destroy something or attack somebody whilst breaking out of prison.

Yes... for example, last Friday they defused one in Offenbach, a few days before that in Hanau, every now and then in in Frankfurt... (these 3 are relatively near eachother -distance wise). Now, there have been incidents ever since the end of the war, however, videos like that make it seem like every finding leads to tragedy, when in reality, the process is in place to prevent those. Now for ppl in the affected area, it's a huge inconvenience, not denying that. But unless you actually live in Frankfurt or so, you likely go through life without even hearing of a finding in your area. If we do live or just work in Frankfurt (for example) we basically just sigh and - at most - check where exactly, in order to see if it'll affect our commute.

Well about that Beatles story. It's not all wrong, they got deported and the reason was somehow the lighted condom. But there was no law against lighting condoms. What Paul McCartney and Pete Best nailed that condom onto a wall before lighting it and almost set the whole building on fire that way. This was seen as arson which in deed was prohibited.

Well, you can try to flee prison. But that means that instead of having your sentence nulled after 2/3 of its time passed you will sit in the jail for the whole sentence, because you have misbehaved. (No early release for "Gute Sozialprognose")

"Cars break down, you can't prevent this" In germany we call it HAUPTUNTERSUCHUNG

Right. Just had to do some checking about my country and it's power generation. Most recent data: Climate experts thought 95% renewable electricity could be achieved by 2030. New Zealand reached that climate goal last December - almost. In the last quarter of 2022, hydro dams, geothermal plants, wind and solar farms provided 94.7% of all power - the highest share since records began in 1974, according to Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment data. So, not too bad at all.

I resent the "most capitalist country" bit. We have a social market economy, which is a form of capitalism, but by no means the most capitalist one.

7:19 Their grandmother was Queen Victoria who herself had 100% German blood. She died in the arms of her favourite grandson Kaiser Wilhelm II. of Hohenzollern while the future King of England had to wait outside. Yes, even foreigners can go to university in Germany for free. The problem will be qualifying to do so. For example with a German school education (Abitur) US universities give you a Bachelor degree in half the usual time. Fines in Germany, the Nordic Countries and Switzerland are not fixed sums of money but fixed multiples of the offenders daily income under the principle that fines must hurt everybody equally. A Swiss guy holds the record for the most expensive speeding ticket which cost him around $1 million. I'm sure he won't forget that in a hurry the same way he would forget a $100 fine!

yeah the thing about the rulers of different countries being cousins ... it really is not a coincidence... many royal families are related, since back in the days they almost exclusively married other royal families and produced offsprings with them.... today it isn't as strict, but some royals uphold these... 'traditions' ... The british royal family for example has german roots ('Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha') and they renamed themself during WWI into 'Windsor', to show they are not affiliated.

its not ilegal to run out of fuel but its ilegal not to have a emergency jerycan with spare fuel and a signal triangle in case of a breakdown

trying to find a picture of a 400years old paper :D no batteries in the iphone back then

The term illegal is unclear. It is not a fellony to run out of gas on the highway. It is an infraction or public nuisance.

10: That was a long time ago, Google and the German company that takes care of the rights and payment of the artists couldn't come to an agreement for a long time - that's why a lot of songs were simply blocked in Germany. Google and GEMA have now reached an agreement. 18: in 2024 it's ~60% renewable Energy

More Importantly they made the Barbie Doll before the USA. The Bild Lilli doll.

The United States is not particularly Capitalist. Water & Power are often run by the state. The Armed forces and associated military industrial complex are State funded job and wealth creation programs.

about the blocking of those vids....just to clear the issue. the one and only reason is country based copyrights. for us labels it is sometimes too complicated to deal with german copyrights and data protection laws, too expensive, so they don't. just like you cannot get US Television here , or technically are prohibited from importing video games from other places, it depends. just get a VPN. easy fix. ;-)

i think the parts with declining population and first baby are outdated a bit or maybe im wrong but i think due to the influence of outside "help" our population is growing

30% renewable is outdated, 2022 it was 48,3% edit: not to forget....Germany is cancelling nuclear energy, the last reactor s are shutting down in April this year

Actually, the info about Hugo Boss is wrong. Boss wasn't a designer back then, he and his company was one of a host of contract manufacturers for uniforms, based on designs they were given.

yes but if you try to escape from prison you should make shure that you dont dammage anything and dont take any prison clothing with you ... THAT will be punished ... not the fact that you ran but the fact that you had prison shoes on will get you some extra time ;)

Yes, jail break is not a cime in Germnany. But if you commit a crime doing so, that still counts. So there is that.