American reacts to Berlin, Germany 

"Schloss Bellevue" is Germany's White House in the sense that it's our President's place of residency. But in Germany, the President has merely representative duties.

Haha this was so funny when he asked if our government building is the mall. Made my day :) love your reaction.

The thing were you ask "is this the mall place" is the german Reichstag, it's where the parlament of Germany is situated. The mall thing itself is the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz.

In all the hustle and bustle of the world, it's nice to see that Berlin is such a place of silence (irony off).

Is it supposed to have no sound in the featured video ? I only hear you, but no sound of the video you react to. Thanks.

There is an area of suburban Berlin which is like Venice - houses fronting onto canals, people going around by boat, instead of car. It's a while since I've been there but I think there's a street car line from downtown which will take you there.

Sadly the event is gone, because an very bad accident happened in another location but if you want an unbelievable view, look for old videos about the Loveparade in Berlin in the early 2000. It was quite a view to experience, i planned to go to it one day but after the tragic that happened on the last event they shut down the event entirely, which is absolutely understandable but i think we may need such events today more than ever...

1:42 No, that's the "Spreebogen" (Spree bend) in the Regierungsviertel - the government district. The buildings on both sides belong to the Bundestag and are connected by bridges to one another and by a tunnel to the Reichstag building which houses the plenary hall. The Paul-Löbe-Haus on the left houses a central atrium which can be used as auxiliary assembly hall, some smaller meeting rooms, a restaurant and the offices for 275 members of parliament as well as administrative offices and central visitor support; the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus (MELH) at the right houses the parliamentary library, the archives, press offices, a secondary plenary hall and the offices of the Scientific Services. The MELH (named after Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, born 1878, women's rights activist, member of the Reichstag 1924-1930, member of the Bundestag 1953-1961, died 1966) was built on the place of the former Berlin Wall, and the bridges symbolize therefore also the reunification of Berlin. 6:48 An Okapi, a forest giraffe from Congo.

Berlin is called the greenest city in Europe because there is so much nature there, such as trees, parks, etc. Visit Berlin.

No, the fish tank has not been repaired. It will take a while, if they do it at all. Obviously the design needs improvement to avoid it bursting again. And also, the first one was made in the US, and then shipped to Berlin and installed, which took quite a while.

Hey Ryan, thank you for your video (even if it is without audio :P ). If you plan on doing a video about the zoo in Berlin, make sure to check out both zoos. Yes, we have two of those. The "Berlin Zoo" in former West Berlin, and the "Tierpark Berlin" (animal park) in former East Berlin. Both are incredible. The Zoo has the most species of any zoo in the world (afaik) and the Tierpark is the largest one in europe and the 9th biggest in the world.

The big mall is called the "Sony-Center" and the building with the bubble on top is the "Reichstag" (Parliament)

I sometimes feel sad if people say Berlin is the worst city and worst place to live. I understand that you sometimes meet weird people on the street and it´s not everywhere and always clean. However most people only know the tourist Berlin, the city center and not the real. I believe Berlin is a wonderful city ´cause it has everything. There is something for everyone. City clubs, night life, lost Village like areas, a lot of green, parks and water. And there are so many different people and cultures. Nobody looks weird at you ´cause of you`re dressing or look. And I think the public transports are quite good. Sad that not everyone knows and understands that. Love, from Berlin ;)

The pink tube is for water drainage from construction site. Berlin is a basin, so that a lot of underground water need to be drained.

The pink pipes drain water away or supply water . the ground water level is quiet high in Berlin - so once you dig some meters deep you have it : ground water ! to avoid flooding and too much concrete isolation the Berliners decided to do it in an easy way... just drain it away - and it costs less and you can remove easy after use when built over the ground .

The first „glass mall“ is not a mall it is the Sony Center with bars and cinemas. The second „glass ball“ is the top of the Bundestag.

I love how this video isn't even close to showing Berlin as you see it when you're actually there

This is the modern version of Stummfilm.

3:26 in the south west there is the Grunwald forest with the Wannsee lake and in the south east the Müggelberge, the mountains with forest and the lake Müggelsee.

All the comments try to explain what he is seeing and what he is wrong about instead I'm sitting here, giggling about the sound of the chair and him trying to pronounce the words he is hearing.

The „Mall“ under the blue dome is the Sony Centre.

3:53 this is the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz

04:38 The building where people walk at the top of the dome is not a mall, it is the Berlin Reichstag, the parliament. You can see Parliament from above, how the MPs and the government discuss and vote on laws.

3:57 That's the "Sony-Center" at the "Potsdammer-Platz". You ask twice. Before it was filmed by night an in that scene by day.

Wären noch deutlich mehr Berlin-Videos möglich und häufiger/regelmäßiger?:)

Expedia video is weird and even weirder without any explanation and it shows the parliament buildings and the Brandenburg Gate in numerous sequences and other sites are not shown at all! Yes, Berlin is a very green City with huge Parks but also many trees in the streets! Unlike other World capitals, the area around Berlin has no huge industry (apart from Tesla) or other huge cities so there is plenty of forests, lakes and nature around it. The "Mall" you see in the beginning is a building at Potsdamer Platz, built by Sony therefore the "tent" construction you see from the insite is a kind of Replica of the Fuijama from the outside. BTW: You see those pink ( and also blue) tubes all over Berlin where new buildings are built up, they transport the ground water away from the construction site. But it looks like a big public Art Installation and I love them 😄

6:47 "That thing" would be Okapi - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi - a "neckless" Giraffe straight from Miocene Period, a living fossil of sort. Although the rear part might resemble more zebra (then Giraffe) it has nothing in common with it.

Maybe it's the KDW in Berlin. This is a kind of shopping arena where fresh goods are flown in.

The whole world laughs at this city of chaos, including the Germans. It's worth watching just one video about this shame so you can laugh about it. You have already heard the German word "Schadenfreude" in your videos.

1:40 This is the government district. 2:40 This is the Sony-Center. 4:50 This is the Bundestag. 5:25 Holocaust Memorial Best wishes from Bavaria! 😊

Berlín in a beautiful city. One of my favourites . And a note : after II World War, by Malta Treatment, Rusia was declared like winner of European War , they arrived first at Berlin and USA the winner of Pacific War. By there along a lot of years , several territories who’ve had liberty by Rusia was separated by this wall.

The fishtanks exploded 2022 again with a huge boom. It’s sad! You like special the Sony Center - which you named: incredible building

should there be a sound in the video?

Greetings from Berlin

Are you being ironic when saying "Who knew there was such beautiful nature in Berlin?" ?? Yeah bro, that's what Berlin is basically known for. It's the "green city".

The Aquarium @ 11:37 has recently burst due to material fatigue

American seeing the German parliament: "Is this the mall thing, from a minute ago?" 🤣

no... the" Whitehouse" equivelent would have been the big old block with the big glas bubble

The "mal place" is the very iconic house of parliament or Reichstag.

Place you Wanna know its Potsdamer Platz

Make a video about beautiful Hamburg!

And now I had to watch the original video to know what he was reacting to 🤦‍♂️🤣

there is a small village in northern germany where the biggest havy metal festival in the world has been taking place for decades. The village is called Wacken. You should take a look :)

I think you should react to Dresden next time. Its the most beautiful city in Germany 😍☺️

I dont think anyone would call Berlin the big Daddy ;D

5:04 this is the Holocaust Memorial. 8:14 these should be remnants of the Berlin Wall, which was dividing the city into the west and east zone. 08:42, I think this is the famous checkpoint Charly.

'Graffity' is a tolerated, even accepted art form in Germany.

At 3:59 was the Sonicenter at the Potsdamer Platz. A not sooo interestint Place ;) Greetz from Berlin

Noooo, not Memes^^ you always forget to do the Berlin Zoo :O

7:36 reconstructed Berlin wall at Bernauer Strasse

12:00 Berlin is 9 times bigger than Paris and has more bridges than Venice!

Why... Isnt there a sound from the video ryan is watching?

There are a few places like Venice in Germany, but I'd say really more comparable to "mini Amsterdam" except you speak German instead of Dutch. I think my favourite is Papenburg (Google Papenburg) where for a couple of dollars I caught a local bus and made a circular tour round the town canals, stopping at canalside cottages and windmills to pick up the locals going to the shops. Don't forget, in Europe when you go a bit "off the well beaten tourist tracks" you will need to speak a bit of the local language, lest you find yourself resigned to sleeping in a field with the local cows!!!

Graffiti at the Former Berlin Wall, so called east Side Gallery

1:45 Nope this are Buildings belonging to the Bundestag, the german Parliament

Yeah, this video only shows the most beautiful sides xD There are districts that are very shabby and poor with a lot of violence and homeless people. We have also districts with I'd say 80% migrants from mostly Turkey and arabic countries- Neukölln, Moabit, Kreuzberg for example. There is a youtube channel called "Das ist Berlin bitch!" that shows a lot of pictures from everyday life there.

the building you thougt would be the mall is in fact the "Bundestag" the center of the politic but you can walk in as a tourist and the memomiral with the many stones is build to remember the killed jews in the third reich.

Is there no sound on that video. I certainly think Expedia would tell you what you are seeing. You have no idea what you are looking at. That is ridiculous. The modern buildings on the Spree, are the Government Buildings. That Center you were curious about is the SONY Center, That clock, is the international clock and it is in Alexanderplatz and is a remnant of the DDR. This video jumps around, and leaves one who does not know the City, totally confused.

I guess you are listening to an audio tour? It would be nice to hear it too :)

Kein Ton, OBS Fehler?

3:22 that's in every city in Germany. 🤣🤣

The best thing I've ever seen it described as is green communist hipster ghetto with techno

When you visit Berlin it's beautiful, and you can enjoy doing so many things. But I wouldn't like to live there, to be honest... But it's just 2 hours from me ( just like Hamburg). So I could go there if I want.

Berlin is a great city.

Have you watched the video without sound on purpose?

Berlin is bigger than NYC. 😂😂😂

If you liked the Berlin video für the museums and nature... check out the Frankfurt equivalent: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UQgcBiAztjs.html 😉

Please react for "Be deutsch" from Jan Böhmermann in my opinion a great summary of us Germans

That is where our politics are sitting

where is the voiceover?

no sound in the video??

You should watch a Video of Hamburg. 🫶 Such a beautiful city and I am not just saying that because it is my hometown 😅 We have actually more bridges as Venice 😂

If you want to see what Berlin is all about... Watch "Das ist Berlin Bit**" 🙈

this was weird to watch without any sound, but it makes me want to visit berlin again

The sound is missing in your video

It felt so weird to watch the whole video without sound. I just checked the original and it definitly has sound.

The part where you like the Art on it is actually the Wall that once splitt Berlin in 2 halfs. It's like a memorial on it's own.

"The mall place" is actually "Sony Center" at Potsdamer Platz.

ryan there´s no sound of the Expedia video

The pink tubes are sometimes blue. They're used to route water and other things over streets and crossings when there are longterm constructions ongoing. This way they don't need to lose roads to replace or restore underground piping. They also are used for temporary water supplies to construction sites

Clean? NO! Neat? No! Berlin maybe not the niciest city in Germany. But, Berlin has it's very own charme, AND if you like history. There is no other city you need to see and visit. Ich liebe unsere Hauptstadt "Bärlin" ;)

Every time I had enough of all the bad news on RU-vid, your videos feel like an antidote.

The building with the cupola at 4:45 is the German Reichstag (Deutscher Reichstag) which is actually the German parliament building comprising the second chamber of parliament. Its members are elected by a nation wide general election every four years. It has been built in imperial times (second Reich) and became the seat of the first democratically elected German parliament during the Weimar republic era after WWI. After the reunification of east and west Germany it had to be modernized and renovated to become the seat of the Bundestag (2nd chb.o.parliament).

The dark brown animal you saw in the zoo is a Okapi, literally a Rainforest Giraffe. It was only discovered by chance not so long ago. No Joke. I did voluntary guided tours in our Zoo in Stuttgart for many years. We have them too, and breed them so we can sustain the wilderness, in case of a emergency. Elmar from Germany.

The gate is Brandenburg gate. Which was the symbol of the division of Germany and became the symbol of the reunification of our people. It holds special significance for us.

Can not hear the sound of the Original video 😮

Welcome to my city. Nice to see that you are not only interested in the "stereotypical Bavarian view" of Germany. This video only shows a small area. Berlin is so much bigger. However, this is the part that is possibly the most interesting for tourists. By the way, Berlin has 2 "zoos". 1 zoo and 1 "animal park" Because the city used to be divided by the wall (there were 2 separate countries) and both sides had a zoo. @Ryan you should check out the "LOVEPARADE" from the early 2000s ^^

The Video completely missed the city west which is essentielly one of the 3 city centers in Berlin but showed Reichstag and Brandenburg gate a million times. Also Berlin first gets really exciting when leaving the inner city and going into the vibrant cultural hotspots. What i want to say: This video covered only a tiny fraction of the city.

Berlin is so damn beautiful and ugly at the same time! I lived there and I loved it because I lived near the "Schloss Charlottenburg" and everything in that area to me was so beautiful, but if I had lived in "Berlin-Marzahn" I wouldnt have liked it at all.

I love how you are interested in my homecity. The art on the wall you looked at 8:30 is called East Side Gallery. In the early 90ies lots of artist from all over the world came over to Berlin to paint on the previously plain side of the wall (the Eastern side). It was planned only to be temporarely but then made a permanently art monument after protests against the removal.

the "i want a whole video about this place"- place, was the Potsdamer Platz. It's the place were the Berlinale is, our version of the Oscars and that's where the big cinema premieres always take place.

Berlin has so much to offer and they show the most boring things like the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate and some random trees like 200 times lol

Berlin History in a nutshell: Berlin is the very old, around 12th century, founded as 2 twin cities Berlin and Kölln (not to be confused with Cologne, "Köln" with 1 "L", in the west of Germany) around the area of the Museum island by merchants, both cities became part of the "Hanseatic League" (an historical confederation of merchants) before they merged together and became the residence of the electors of Margraviate of Brandenburg in 15th century (Germany were a lot of small kingdoms, counties, with their own rulers), at the begin of the 18th the capital of Prussia under the Hohenzollern family (mostly united Germany) and 1871 as the capital of the German Empire (and an united Germany). In 1912 it became the capital of the Weimar Republic and 1933 Nazi Germany. After WW2 in 1945 the city was split in 3 (British, US American and Sowjet) sectors and later in 4 sectors (as an additional French sector was created from the British and US American sectors) and with the 2 German states (FRG and GDR) Berlin was divided into West Berlin (former British, US American and French sectors) and East Berlin (Sowjet sector). East Berlin was the capital of the GDR and Bonn the capital of the FRG. West Berlin was completely surrounded by the GDR (and the Berlin wall) and defacto part of the FRG. 1989 the Berlin wall was opened and 1990 the GDR joined the FRG and Berlin became one city again, but with some "scars" that still can be seen nowadays. Sometimes you can still feel a slight mental and cultural difference, a difference in food and see the difference in buildings between the 2 halves of the city. The former West Berlin has a lot more underground metro stations while the former East Berlin has more train and tram stations. In most places the former Berlin wall has been torn down and replaced with brick markings on the streets. Some parts of the Berlin wall exists as memorials (like Bornholmer Str.) or as an open air art gallery, the East Side Gallery with its impressive graffiti artwork on the front part of the Berlin wall. The Berlin wall was actually not only one wall, it was 2 walls, the big front wall towards the West Berlin side, a 30-500m (100-1640 feet) long death zone with spring guns, trip wires, barb wire, barb wire fences, anti-tank obstacles, patrol ways and watchtowers and a smaller back wall at the latest revision, constantly monitored by guards and dogs. The amount of people who died in the Berlin wall is unknown atm, but it's expected to be around 136-245 people died while they tried to flee from the GDR to West Berlin. A lot of people were imprisoned for trying to flee and mentally tortured by the former secret GDR police often called "Stasi". Unfortunately the crimes by the Stasi officers were not brought to court yet as a huge amount Stasi documents are still not fully reconstructed yet - they exists in a lot of huge bags filled with shredded small paper pieces. It's a still ongoing research, even over 30 years after the German reunification. Hopefully we will have a complete view on the things the Stasi did in the future.

I'd recommend you a short documentary about the Berlin wall. It's always very interesting.

I went to Berlin last October and really enjoyed it. Met my pen pal and got to practice German. So much history, art, and culture.

I live in Poland but near the border so it is only 2 hours by car to Berlin. Tomorrow I go there just for kebap in Mustafa, it is the best :)

I would LOVE to see a react video about Dresden! :) perhaps with some sound then :D But thanks for your videos! They are really entertaining!

And again you read it wrong. It said.. YOU'RE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR. That was checkpoint Charlie. A thing you learn about when you're about 13-14 in Denmark.

The Memorial: the Stones stands for all jewish people had to die

Museum Island is a totally historical buildings site. The new buildings near to the center at the Spree river are all government buildings. Berlin as most german cities is a very green city with rivers, canals, parks, two major lake areas.The memorial which is builded like a maze for holocaust was erected on the ruins of the building and offices where the murder of the Jewish people was planned and directed from.After war Berlin was divided in four sectors. One was US. Checkpoint Charlie was a crossing point from US to Soviet Sector. Other sectors where French and British. Each sector had it's own airport. Three Westen sectors united in cold war times. The wall was builded around to hinder anyone from east germany (DDR) to enter. The inner - (Western)part was covered in graffity.