Brit Reacts to 101 Facts about Germany Part 1 

We don't "love" nudity. We just know it's how nature made us and there is no reason for being prude about it.

The "cone" you get at your first day of school is called "Schultüte". It's filled with pencils, sweets and toys. Also the cones get decorated with stickers and glitter. It is meant to help the children getting a good start at school and wash away the anxiety the children might have because of the upcoming.

The Brothers Grimm didn't just collect fairy tales and publish them. They also studied the Germanic languages ​​such as German, Dutch, English, Swedish and so on. They developed the theory that these different languages ​​had a common ancestor. They found that the English "hound" corresponds to the German "Hund". The English "ox", the German "Ochs". The English "maiden", German "Maid" "Mädchen"

The treaty of versailles is a treaty that was signed by Germany after WW1 to not have any troops in the Rhineland, to lower the military spending, to pay a lot of money (which it didn't had) and to loose a lot of territory. It was one reason why WW2 started. It was signed in the city of Versailles in France (it's close to Paris) Germany had to pay to all the winners

Most Germans do not particularly like nudity as such and I, personally, have never been to nor known anyone who frequented naked beaches, for example. However, we do not make a big prudish fuss about nakedness either. So, no one bats an eye at a mother breastfeeding in public, for example, which in America, they will. At a local folk festival, often children, and sometimes even adults will walk around full monty and no one makes any complaints… We just see the body as a given and don‘t consider it sinful to look at naked bodies or to show naked skin…

23:00 Germany have many big/developed cities because country was never centralised, like France with Paris or England with London. Since Holy Roman Empire it was split and each region developed itself.

Hamburg has more bridges than Venice and Amsterdam combined

Müller is Miller. The guy who works at a (wind&water)mill!

Neuschwanstein was build with the mordernst materials of the 1860s. Steeltrusses, concret, central heating and the first german telephone system with multiple devices and a central phone-deploy-room

I come from the island of Rügen in northern Germany and nudism is completely normal for us. As a child and teenager, it was a bit strange going to the beach with my parents, but now we are all in our late 30s and early 40s in our circle of friends and enjoy going to the nudist beach together again. People look like people look. If you accept that, there's nothing crazy about it. Few things are as liberating as swimming naked in the sea. And the nice thing is that the annoying tourists from West Germany are rarely on the nudist beaches.

Mozart was technically german too. He was born in what is now Austria but belongt back then to Germany.

So yeah, Hasselhoff is not a big artist in germany, basically since the reunification of germany. He btw claims that he was the main reason for the reunification with his songs. The germans that even still know this guy, usually make fun of that and rather view him like an idiot :D

Gummibears are NOT made from pig fat but from pig gelatine… today, Haribo has plenty of products that are vegan as well…

German birthrate is low because of the same problem that every high educated state has. The more educated the people get - less baby's will be born.

Gelatine isn’t pig fat, it’s pig bone mark

A lot of people, including my wife, just say they don't wanna have children growing up in this fkd up world. And apart from that there is a problem in germany of the "Einkommensschere" "an incomescissors" - the growing difference between upper and lower class. Germans are either really successful, careerfocused etc. or social money reliant and cant really care for possible kids. The middle class is kinda underpopulated right now. (Normal craftsmenjobs etc.)

Deutschland (German), Duitsland (Dutch), Däitschland (Luxembourgish), Tyskland (Swedish, Norwegian and Danish), Þýskalandi (Islandic) and Týskland (Faroese) all have the same ancestor, the old high German word diutisc. (Tedesco in Italian also comes from diutisc) There is no official translations for diutisc but it means something along the lines "of the people". Almanya (Turkish), Almaniya (Azerbaijani), Alemania (Spanish and Basque), Alemagne (French), Alemanha (Portuguese), Yr Almaen (Welsh), Alemanya (Catalan), Alamagn (Breton), and Alemaña (Galician) all come from the alemanni (a Germanic tribe from the south of Germany). Niemcy (Polish), Німеччина (Ukrainian), Němska/Nimska (Sorbian), Нямеччына (Belarusian), Njemačka (Croatian), Немачка (Serbian and Montenegrin), Németország (Hungarian), Německo (Czech), Nemecko (Slovakian), Nemčija (Slovenian) Njemačka (Bosnian) and Немецкий (German in Russian) come from an old slavic word that means something along the lines "People who speak a different language" or "the mute ones". Saksa (Finish) and Saksamaa (Estonian) come from the old German tribe of the saxons. Germany (obviously English), Germania (Italian and Romanian), Ġermanja (Maltese), Германия (Russian and Bulgarian), Германија (Macedonian), Gjermania (Albanian), an Ghearmáin (Irish Gailic), A' Ghearmailt (Scotish Gailic), Yn Ghermaan (Manx), Գերմանիա (Armenian), გერმანია (Georgian), and Γερμανία (Greek) come from the word Caeser used for the people on the other side of the rhine river. Vokietija (Lithuanian) and Vācija (Latvian) come from an old baltic word for viking Maybe there is something wrong because it's just what I remembered and I just translated some names. So please correct me if I'm wrong or you can add something.

The Treaty of Versailles was after WW1. Germany was found to be solely responsible for the war (i.e. a dispute with only one participant) and was ordered to pay high reparations. These went to France, Belgium and England. In addition, France deposed all important industrial centers in West Germany. The empire collapsed and the democratic government was unable to pay the debts imposed. In addition, the Ruhr area declared itself independent and proclaimed communism. The German government printed money to buy back the renegade regions. This starts hyperinflation and near national bankruptcy. This gave rise to the national Hitler party, which wanted to shed all burdens from Germany during WW2. After WW2, the loans were stretched and interest rates were reduced. The winners did not want to bring Germany into financial distress and thus political instability twice. In 2010, the loans and payments of the Versailles Treaty were fulfilled. Germany today has one of the lowest national debt levels in Europe.

The population thing's not working... it's still rising up to 84,7 million nowadays (March 2024) And yes, with the banking crisis 2008, the salary structure in Germany also changed drastically. The rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer. But this is not just a German problem.

About the names for Germany: diutisc was the oldgerman word for „belonging to the people“. Deutsch derives from that and also Deutschland. Tysk and tedesco also derive from it. Alemannen were a tribe in the southwest of Germany and every country that calls us Allemagne or something like that is basically referring to that tribe. Same for the Finnish saks…they refer to the saxons. What is not known is what Germania is referring to. Yes, Caesar used it as the land of the Germani, but the etymology of Germani is unclear.

@18.02 was or is invented in China, like chess! There´s so many things that were invented in China even ice-bream, pizza, noodles, printing, compass, seizmograph, money like notes and coins, now everythings getting digital...

1) Deutschland is called so because it is the land of the Deutschen. But since England decided to reserve "Dutch" only for the nether lands and the Low Franconian dialect, English had to find another name for the Saxon, Rhine and Main Franconian, Alemannic, Thuringian and Bavarian lands and found it in the name the Romans used for the northeastern parts for some time and of which nobody knows what it is supposed to mean. (There was a Latin word 'germanus' meaning "true brother" / "natural sibling" , but most tend now to a Celtic etymology either from the word for "neighbor" (old Irish "gair") or for "noisy" - the former seems to be more reasonable and also historically true, the origin of Celtic language and culture being in Austria and southeastern Germany, while the latter is a contradiction to the Slavic word for "Germans", "niemiec" which is derived from "niemy" = mute. An outdated interpretation is based on the word "Ger" for javelin, but in Roman times the "German" tribes called this weapon a "frame" (latinized framea), which was however a typical status symbol for free men. We know also about a tribe called Germanii, but they lived in the Kerman Province of Iran.) 2) Russia, Ukraine, France, Spain and Sweden have more territory (within Europe) than Germany, but only Russia has more population than Germany. The UK has however more people per square km. 8) That is outdated and was never fully correct. After reunification the estimated population number peaked in 2002-2004 at around 82.5 million, decreased then slightly to 81.75 million in 2010 and was recalculated to be 80.3 million in 2011 after a new census. Since then it increased continuously to now 84.36 million, mostly due to immigration, partly due to a very, very slightly increased birthrate. The issue is not a declining, but an ageing population. Economists have calculated that Germany needs a yearly immigration of at least 200,000 younger people per year to secure economic wealth and especially the funding of the German pension insurance. 9) The closing of schools was not mainly caused by a population decline in total, but rather by interregional migration after reunification and partly also by austerity measures in some states. Sorrily those measures also included the reducing of numbers of university places for training teachers, based on wrong statistical projections, which resulted in a serious shortage of teachers since some years now. (If you have any teaching qualifications you would be very welcome to apply as teacher in Germany.) Currently the birthrate in Germany is somewhat lower than in the UK, but higher than in e.g. Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Hungary, Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Portugal, Greece, Spain and Italy. The rates were lowest in Germany during the decade after reunification (partly due to already very low rates in East Germany, partly due to the follow-up of the too hasty reunification like mass unemployment in the East and the following migration to the West), but are now at about the same level as before. 11) Having multiple attractive big cities is a follow-up of being a federalist country for centuries. Germany never had the same kind of centralism as France or the UK. After Prussia conquered most of northern Germany in 1866, Berlin became kind of a hub, but even after 1871 the southern states insisted on their autonomy, while the Prussian province of Rhineland for example remained rebellious and never really accepted Berlin predominance. 13) "Deutsch" means roughly "language of the people" in old German (in contrast to Latin as language of scholars, clerics and sometimes lords). "Deutsche" are people speaking "Deutsch" (or one of its variations like Saxon, Franconian, Alemannic / Swabian, Thuringian, Bavarian or Yiddish) and their common settlement area is "Deutschland". 15) The German Confederation was ineffective because its rulers wanted it to be so and abhorred reforms. Before 1848 it was comparable to the early stages of the European Community, but mostly without the economic treaties for some kind of Germany-wide customs union; in 1848 it got for the first time a parliament elected by the people, but that revolution was soon suppressed. But it was not weak in the military sense; while its predecessor, the Holy Roman Empire, suffered since the 17th century from repeated French invasions and multiple interior wars, the Confederation could ward off French interventions and defeated Denmark (which tried to annex the duchy of Schleswig, which was ruled by the Danish king as Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Saxony-Lauenburg, all parts of the Confederacy). 16) However: The so called German Empire was also a Federation of 4 kingdoms and some grand duchies, duchies, princedoms and other states. The constitution stated that the Prussian king would hold the presidency under the title of "German Emperor", but not be in any sense the King of Germany. Some states like Bavaria even kept their own embassies and their own ministries of foreign affairs. 19) The treaty of Versailles was the treaty of the German surrender after WW I. It was signed in a railway car at Versailles, where the German rulers had proclaimed the German Empire in 1871 after defeating France, and aimed at humiliating Germany as well as at taking away the capacity for a military revenge by taking control over the coal and steel plants in the Rhineland and the Saarland by the Allies (especially France), by limiting the size of the German army and by demanding a lot of reparations (partly paid in goods, for example airships to the US). The humiliation part was then used by German nationalists and especially the Nazis to win the support of the people. In WW II Hitler forced the French government to sign its capitulation in the same railway car (1940). 21) That is a typical internet myth. Older Germans know Hasselhoff mostly from the Knight Rider series which was modestly popular back in the 1980s. He was promoted by some pop magazines. In 1988 he produced a cover version of the song "Looking for Freedom" (originally sung by German singer Marc Seaberg in 1978, written by German producer Jack White aka Horst Nußbaum), which apparently "touched a nerve" during the 1989 events and became a number one hit for some weeks, which is why public broadcast TV channel ZDF invited him to sing it at their New Year's Party 1989/90 at the place before the Brandenburg Gate and the remains of the Berlin Wall. Afterwards he produced some more songs with rather mediocre success. Younger Germans do not know him at all. 23) Einstein lost his citizenship in the Kingdom of Württemberg due to his refusal to come home from Zurich for military service in 1896. In 1901 he became a Swiss citizen. As professor in Berlin he got additionally the citizenship of Prussia and Germany in 1914, but gave it back in 1933. In 1940 he became an US citizen, but kept also his Swiss citizenship. So he was born in Germany, but was for nearly his whole life a Swiss citizen.

About the bombs: yes, unexploded bombs (so-called 'Blindgänger') are found every day. However, these bombs actually become increasingly dangerous nowadays, as their detonators are now in a highly decayed state and could therefore go off at any time. Even on their own without a shock or similar.

Some people , even some Germans dont recognise Germany is still occupied by USA. :)

"...need to know who you payed reperations for, because it is important." ... - Wow! 👍 I think i need to get an abo! 😘

I'm still hoping on some videos by you about Germany's beautiful and stunning cities, sights and landscapes. Germany is incredibly diverse, both in architecture and landscapes, and has some of the worlds best castles, palaces, churches, historic towns, rivers, forests, lakes and mountains.

21:35 Mistake in the video: It's not called West Saxony but Lower Saxony or Niedersachsen in German.

I've been hearing that Germany is shrinking for years, but we now number 84.3 million

Omg yes I love Fanta cake I definitely have to make you some when you're here! 😍🤭

16:35 I was very surprised, when I learned, that even the composer of the epic theme of "Game of Thrones", Ramin Djawadi, is a german citizen from my hometown Duisburg.....! 😃

Yes, I'm in fact living in a house , that has been built in 1907. After WWII it has been occupied by British people for several years, and our family had to move out.

*I know amstedrdam..." 😂👍"I love it!" Got my like! 👍

1. schoolday. Children get a so called "Schultüte" filled with sweets, fruits, playables and schoolthings like pencils. It is a tradition.

1:00 Thats the "Schultüte" its full of sweets and little toys ad a present for starting your school life

Travel tip for Berlin: If you didn't know Berlin had so much water, in case you come there, make sure to take a boat tour. The biggest one is the "Sieben Seen Tour", seven lakes tour, starting at the Wannsee, but I find the tours on the canals and river Spree more interesting because you stay within the city, and maybe you can catch a guided tour in English. I lived in Berlin for seven years and each summer I took two or three tours, mostly spontaneously. "Oh look, there's boat, let's ask if there's something vacant."

Love nudity?! That’s the best example of CLICKBAIT

You can also count Mozart as german musician. He was born in Salzburg. The city of Salzburg is located in Salzburger Land (then known as Erzbistum Salzburg = Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg). Salzburg was one of the many more or less sovereign states in the Holy Roman Empire. So he was a German. Under Napoleon the state was in a crisis and the outcome was, simplyfied, that Salzburg was split: One part was contolled by the Habsburgs (Austria) and the other by the Wittelsbacher (Bayern). The city itself was part of Austria. So many people say he was Austrian but he died when the Archbishopric was still sovereign.

We don't like Hasselhoff - but he thinks we do 😅

Survey on the number of languages ​​spoken per person in Germany 2021. In July 2021, around 40 percent of respondents in Germany said they spoke two languages. However, at the time of the survey, just two percent of the participants stated that they had knowledge of five languages ​​or more.

Nice videos, by the way. My sister lives in Kent, so its a little funny to hear a Northern accent for a change

German here. Germany actually grew by almost 1,5 million people thoughout the last 18 months. And: i'm almost 50 and i've never even seen a nude beach or area in Germany 😂 i really don't know where these people are.

What the f... are you talking about???😅 Tom Jones is huge in almost around the world... also youtube is full of his videos & actions of it. Also Tom is an exceptional talent while the Hoff has almost none, we just like his car.😉

Some things about schools: These cones are called Schultüte and you get one on first day in elementary. It is filled with sweets ans pens, pencil, glue… thing you need every day in school. The school closings: it is a little dated, right now there are increasing numbers of pupils, both because of migration and more children in younger families. We actual have a very big number of teachers missing at the moment. Another thing is that in smaller villages lots of schools closed but therefore other schools take those students. Having too less teachers and bigger schools being more efficient and cheaper, there was a centralization. Right now there are about 85 mio people in Germany, the highest number in history.

"what is this? treaty of versaille"?! .... oh you sweet summer child 😅

...german native speakers are in austria ,switzerland, belgium, denmark, luxemborg, north italy ( süd tirol), romania, latvia. 😊

Gelatine is from pig bones

Bade einmal in einer versteckten Bucht , wo dich niemand sieht, nackt und du wirst verstehen, warum viele Deutsche das mögen. Fanta- Kuchen ist unglaublich lecker- der Lieblingskuchen in unserer Familie. Danke für dein e Reaktion !! Liebe Grüße aus Thüringen/ Deutschland

Around 100 million German speakers live across Europe. After Russian, it is the most widely spoken language on the continent. German is the most widely spoken native language in the European Union and the official language in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg, as well as in Liechtenstein. German is also the official language in Switzerland. Around 7.5 million people also belong to a German-speaking minority in 42 countries worldwide. February 12, 2020

@ 06:35 true . we have many cities that range between 300-600k inhabitants

4:20 it's both... Way to many people that don't want children and other people moved away. I'm living in Canada since 2021

4:33 Everywhere just to get out of Germany becous the country destroys utself. Its a time bomb with that politics

29 At the time of reunion Germany, D. Hasselhoff had the Song Looking for Freedom. And he sang it in Berlin when the wall comes down. We say in joke that David Hasselhoff made the reunion with his singing there. ☺️

Gelatine is collagen and is primarily obtained from cartilage and rinds, and sometimes also from bones. It's fat free. Depending on the region, people used what was most commonly available, e.g. fish, chicken and rabbit, cattle and sheep or pigs. Today they use plants too (e.g. the German company Katjes, which has been producing vegan fruit gums for a long time). HARIBO also has kosher and halal gummy bears in its range, proofed pig free.

24) The "Freikörper-Kultur" (FKK, free body culture) evolved in the late 19th and early 20th century as part of a "back to nature" and health movement, which considered the constricting fashion of that time as unhealthy. That movement was strong especially in the Berlin region, at the coast of the Baltic Sea and in the Ruhr region (where the first FKK association was founded in 1898). The Nazis fought after 1933 at first against FKK, but since some prominent Nazis were FKK fans themselves (they considered it as going back to Germanic roots, based on the narrations by Tacitus), the ban was enforced only half-heartedly and later reduced on nudity in public - within club estates or at some designated places it was allowed. Those rules were kept after 1945. The regime in East Germany tried to ban nudity at the strands of the Baltic Sea in 1954, but had to accept it in 1956 due to protests; local councils could now designate certain places as FKK zones, and the number quickly rose. In West Germany the rules were far more strict until the 1970s. In 1980 the Munich city administration designated two large areas of the main city park, the English Garden, for allowed nudity. After reunification FKK became more and more accepted in all parts of Germany. 25) A beverage called Fanta was invented by the German subsidiary of Coca-Cola during WW II, but it was made mostly from apple peels and other "by-products". The beverage loosely based on oranges was invented later in Italy and then also called "Fanta". 26) Never heard of Fanta cake before, but there are so many recipes... 28) The Northwest of Germany (now the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and North-Rhine Westphalia as well as Hamburg and Bremen) was the British occupation zone; the Southeast was the US zone (Hesse, Bavaria, Württemberg; for a short time also Thuringia, but they bartered it for West-Berlin with the Soviet Union) and the Southwest the French zone (Saarland, Palatinate, Baden, Württemberg-Hohenzollern). The Saarland (purple in the map at 15:49) became then first its own state under French supervision (1947-1957) before it by referendum reunited with West Germany. 30) Georg Frideric Handel was also German, by the way (born in Halle, then part of the Electorate of Brandenburg, now in the state of Saxony-Anhalt).

I'm from the Celle area, where there were a lot of British troops stationed in the area. My favorite radio station growing up was BFBS. At no time did I ever felt "occupied" by the Brits. Maybe that was the sentiment in the early days past the end of WWII. I was born when The Who recorded My Generation. Growing up, the British Army Forces were just around and part of life. Some married a local and stayed. Some of them would become working buddies in later days. When the British Army left Germany (nearly) completely in 2020, a part of our community went away. And I miss the BFBS.

Oh, my, Dwayne, you have no idea, how well known Tom Jones is in Germany. He was starring at the Jazz Open Festival in Stuttgart a few years back and the audience was smashed by the Welsh singer.

The many names of germany are coming from different tribes that the areas had to deal with. The alleman tribes in the west, the saxons in the east and many more german comes as in the video mentioned from the romans that had to deal with them, since the romans also conquered big parts of britain, the british people just stuck to the name the anglo saxons also came from germany and make a big part of todays DNA in great britain

„We love Tom Jones“….😂If you think Tom Jones is not big in other countries you have no idea 😂 But Tom Jones is welsh. The funny part with Hasselhoff is that he is an American who was very successful in Germany, but not in his own country. And he still can be seen as a singer in german shows (mainly for an older audience). We often stick to people, if we love them. For example Chris Norman, Bonnie Tyler or Kim Wilde. They still have their audience here in Germany.

From what i read years ago, when people reach a certain level of education in their male and female population they tend to have less children.

There are more important inventions than just that: bike, car, diesel engine, printing press, the telephone, nuclear power, x-ray, computer, and many more.

about the bombs thing... yeah theres defusing operations all the time here in my area (granted i live in the Ruhrgebiet, the biggest industrial cluster in germany and it was bombed... heavily.. like.... HEEEEAAAVVIIILLLYYYYYY) and theres always like news items about it with "this and that area is getting evacuated just in case something goes wrong and the darn thing blows up", roads and highways closed, trainlines shut down when the location is close....

German native speakers are also in Italy in the North east - Südtirol.

My birthplace Cologne was bombed in 262 seperate airraids in ww2. Up to today evacuations and/or street closings are a regular occuring because of ww2 duds. Most of the time you don't even get informed because they pose no thread to the community (maybe for the defusing team though)... but the cases that make the news are about one a month or two.

Ukraine is also considerably bigger than Germany, the largest state completly on european ground I think. Russia's european part is larger than Germany as well, France, Spain - one's still missing. 😅

Nices Video, Grüße aus der Mitte von Deutschland 🇩🇪🖖🏼

All translations for the Keine Panik point: 21:40 Don't panic, I'm already dead I don't think I can make anyone panic. 21:46 Now you know that your grandma found the wigs. 21:49 Your family gives you tumors every year. 21:50 We are crazy for love which is crazy for cats 21:51 Stand up Shorty

I think you need to investigate in the Treaty of Versailles and the situation after WK I to understand how the nazis could come to power in he 1930.

18:26 Fun Fact: Adidas 3 stripes were a brand mark of a Finnish company Karhu. They sold it to Adidas cheap as h*ll plus two bottles of whiskey. Money spent by Adidas was about 1600 euros in todays money.

for me it always was.. "look around you... do you honestly want to put children into this f*cked up world?" and my answer was... no

If you like nice castles here are some very pretty ones for you: Schloss Schwerin, the many palaces in Park Sanssouci in Potsdam near Berlin, castle Marksburg in Braubach in the Middle-Rhine-Valley, Burg Kriebstein in the middle of Saxonia. Schloss Moritzburg in Saxonia was featured in the very popular fairy tale film "Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel" (Three wishes for Cinderella). If you are more into ruins, how about a trip in Thuringia: The Mühlburg and Burg Gleichen at Motorway A4 between Gotha and Erfurt, the ruined palace Neideck in Arnstadt, the very impressive castle ruins Burg Greifenstein in Bad Blankenburg and Hoher Schwarm in Saalfeld, or just across the boarder to Saxony-Anhalt: Rudelsburg and Burg Saaleck.

I hope my englisch is correct. Fun Fact about David Hasselhof. David Hasselhof thinks, his Music Track "looking for Freedom" is responsible for the break down of the Berlin Wall between East und West Germany. (ah there it is! The Unity Day!)

Declining birth rates is a global phenomenon, and is actually a good thing, since we are already overpopulated.

Hallo, In the former GDR, nudism was an expression of resistance and freedom that could not be taken away from people.

5:20 Many young man died during WWII so the following Generation didn't had enough children which also then could not make much babies. 13:13 Albert Einsteins Birthplace was Austria, but he lived in Germany before going to the US 14:36 The German Branch of Coca Cola invented Fanta 16:04 West Germany consisted of three parts, one American Part, one France Part and One British Part, East Germany was just occupied by the soviets(except for West Berlin) 24:52 Many Cities in Germany have far more bridges than Venice, but Venice has on 100 square meters more Bridges than most German Cities

16:00 yes for a brief period after the war germany was split into four occupation zones between US, UK, USSR and france. After a while UK and US put their zones together into the Bi-Zone, which was later then merged with France to the Tri-Zone. That tri-zone then was allowed to gouvern itself again as west germany, which basically forced the USSR to also allow their zone self gouvernment ( of sorts )

Gummybears are made of gelatine, which is ground up pork bones hair and other things from the pig, can't really tell you since i don't know the translation and am to lazy to google it :x

It never rains in Germany. lol....Greetz to the Lübeck Cougars.

The main reason is actually because living here is too expensive. That's why we're having fewer and fewer children. In most cases both have to work full time!

The Treaty of Versailles not only set the reparations to pay to France and the UK, it also restricted the size of the german army and the technologies it was allowed to develope and apply for warfare. That's the reason why the developement of early nazi era tanks and the training of nazi airforce pilots got conducted secretly with support of Stalin on soviet grounds until Hitler felt confident enough to give a f☠️k and dropped all pretense by firing up all branches of arms industry openly - at this point the other european powers sought to appease an increasingly threatening Hitler by giving him Sudetenland in what had been (and again is) Czechia, a plan which rather emboldened Hitler. The Treaty of Versaille got perceived as humilating by conservatives and traditionalists which led the nazi party to take up this narrative and spice it up with a little conspiracy ideology by claiming Germany would have won if not a cabal of elites, internationalists, marxists, jews and not to forget elite internationalist marxist jews had conspired to take Germany down or something (sounds just like every other US republican, so it can't be that bad, can it?). You really should learn about the Treaty of Versailles - it's a foundationalal moment for younger history and modern Europe as such.

5:11 I'm pretty sure it's the same reason why the UK and every other major european country is not having children :P 6:35 Birmingham, Liverpool, Kent, Bristol, London, Manchester, Cardiff, Leeds... quite a few cities in the UK that i can think off, but yea, Germany probably has more 13:47 in Germany the FKK (Frei Körper Kultur) was (and still is) a huge thing and traditionally german and even east germans from the GDR did it a lot and it is also practiced in some parts of France quite a lot but it's different from the nordic countries sauna culture. Germans, while also having a big sauna culture, don't necessarily need saunas to be naked. There are camps, parks and baths where you're required to be naked no matter what age btw. because it's not considered a sexual thing.

I personally adore the amazing English history. About 800 years ago we were able to communicate, also with people from todays Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden too! East England has a large population of Anglo-Saxon decendents. It's still called Anglia and that's why you are called England. The land of the Anglos. A Germanic tribe along todays German/Danish border 🇬🇧❤🇩🇪

I am late in watching this video, I know. But as a German when i think of the UK: I think of Irish Pubs, Scottish Castles, the Highlands, Irish and Wales Coast like in some German TV productions. I think of Liverpool and music. I want to see your cottages. I want to see York as the first place in my English school book. I think of dover and it's coast and yes I think of london. But also on the seaside. Sure it's a romantic view out of books and films like Rosamunde Pilcher, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Wallace and many modern cozy crime But doesn't have any visitor a romantic view on the place he wants to visit (if it isn't a historical place you want to visit to learn more about what humans are possible to do and have done).

Family lore has it that there's actually an unexploded bomb in the backyard of the house I inherited from my grandfather. I live in Dortmund (not too far away from where the Dambusters flew their famous attack on a reservoir, inadvertently killing around 2000 civilians and a roughly equal number of POWs who were there for forced labor when the dam burst and flooded the valley -- strange how that factlet gets never mentioned in conjunction with the "daring raid"); the city was carpet-bombed by the USAF and RAF in 1942; most of the bombs they find these days are actually British. About 5 years ago, they had to evacuate over 10,000 people (including the city's two largest hospitals) when 3 duds were discovered during roadworks. We still have bomb-related incidents several times a year. It's pretty much the same in most cities in this area Back to "my" bomb, though -- I can't even have it checked whether my mother's stories were true. If the city discovers it during a routine survey for roadworks or whatever, they will cover the cost (several 1000 Euros) of evacuating the residents and defusing/removal; if I go to them and tell them there *might* be a bomb, they'll have a look, sure ... but at my expense. Yeah, no. Also, we used to have a British garrison, basically an occupation force, in town until reunification in 1990; the HQ was in Cologne, if memory serves, and their area of influence was all the way up to the North Sea. I used to listen a lot to BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) as a teen. The far west and south west were occupied by France, although the French troops withdrew much sooner because of individual treaties between both nations. The US were stationed in the southernmost states, and -- obviously -- the Soviet-occupied part was made into the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany.

My first day in school, 40 yrs ago, I didn't get a Schultüte /Zuckertüte, I got a huge pretzel (Einback, like the Schoko- or Rosinenbrötchen with a sweet, fluffy yeast dough). The pretzel, called Zuckerbretzel, was as big as my Ranzen/schoolbag. Fun fact: the Schultüte is an inverted penitent hat from medieval times. The hats that are known from Catholic penitent processions, e.g. in Spain (or from the KKK). In schools in the medieval times, students had to wear this hat as a punishment, they called it the Eselsmütze (= ass or donkey hat). There is a (false) legend that Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon, when they did reform the school system in Saxony and advocated for better trained and fairer teachers, abolished the dunce hat. In order to show that not only God can be gracious but also teachers, every class got a dunce hat full of sweets at the first day of school. The oldest evidence of the Schultüte in Saxony dates back to 1781. The pretzel, on the other hand, is supposed to be a sign of infinity, because knowledge (or human stupidity) is infinite. That, of course, is also just a legend. And - because it's such a beautiful story (with no historic proof) - still an 102nd fact: The candy cane was also invented in Germany. Actually it's not a cane, but a hook. It was supposedly invented at Cologne Cathedral. There, the children of the choir had to sing again and again from midday on Christmas Eve until midday mass on Christmas and were not allowed to go home. To keep them awake, happy and, above all, calm, the cantor came up with the idea of ​​giving them large candy canes. The pastry baker did it in the traditional Cologne colors of red and white. So that the children could put the candy canes aside while singing, the cantor stretched a string across the choir loft. Because the candy cane was shaped like a hook, the children could hang the cane there.

34) Gelatine is not pig fat, but made from the connective tissue (at skin and bones) of (mostly) pigs and cattle. Haribo is the abbreviation of Hans Riegel, Bonn - Hans Riegel being the founder of the company and Bonn the city where it was located. The company is still family-owned. 38) The Brothers Grimm were linguists who collected the tales mostly in Hesse and Thuringia. 43) That is a bit imprecise. During the Holy Roman Empire Germany (HRE) Germany had no official capital but different cities and places for different stately functions, and the medieval Emperors had different seats for each season of the year, the Kaiserpfalz(en) (imperial palaces), each managed by a Count Palatinate; the Palatinate of the Rhine was the most powerful and most important of these. The city of Quedlinburg was the Easter Palace of the first German kings. Aachen Cathedral was since Charlemagne (Charles the Great) until 1562 the place for the coronation; Frankfurt was an important imperial palace and since 1356 the official place to elect the German king; in 1562 it became also the place for imperial coronations, while the election moved in 1575 to Regensburg, which was 1663 to 1806 also the seat of the parliament, the perpetual diet (immerwährender Reichstag); before that the Reichstag met in different cities for short sessions only. The castle at Nuremberg was another Imperial Palace, managed by the Burgraves of Nuremberg (of House Hohenzollern); between 1424 and 1796 the Imperial Regalia (crown, orb, sceptre, sword and others) were stored here, before they were moved to Vienna. Prague, the capital of the kingdom of Bohemia, was during the Luxembourg dynasty also the virtual, if inofficial capital of the HRE, as well as under Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg; but most other Habsburg Emperors preferred Vienna as residence. In 1815 Frankfurt became the seat of the parliament (by delegates appointed by the rulers of the different states) of the German Confederacy and in 1848 seat of the first democratic parliament in Germany. In 1948 it was one of the competitors for becoming the (provisional) capital of West Germany, but chancellor Adenauer preferred Bonn (which was 1597-1794 the capital of the Electorate of Cologne) on the left bank of river Rhine and near his own home. 47) Hamburg has even more bridges, and most of them go not only over "things", but over water. And Duisburg also claims to have more bridges than Venice (according to the city website Duisburg has about 700 bridges).

important correction: germany split into 3 german nations after ww2 and therefor had 2 reunifications. Look up Saarland... a shortlived nation tho, more or less 10 years depending on what definition of nation you apply. Still enough time to get its own hymn, constitution, currency, WM football team and so on.

Regaeding the famous people like Goethe or Bethoven or Schopenhauer. Once German was the language of academics and scholars. It was similar to what English is now. A lot of people putside of Germany spoke it because it was the language used by everyone.

Germans were several different tribes of the same faith and similar language. The slavs in the east couldn't understand them and called them Niemcy which means "no speaking". The old German word for folk or people is teudisk, this became teutsch/deutsch or in Scandinavia Tysk. For Italians it became tedesco.

2:15 sweden, norway, finland, russia, france, spain i guess

There are around 2,500 bridges in Hamburg, more than anywhere else in Europe. Even Venice and Amsterdam combined don't reach this number. As the city with the most bridges in the world, Hamburg is only surpassed by New York. There are almost 2,900 bridges there. So, if you like water and Bridges in big cities, come to HAMBURG. It is not so far away from the UK by the way. Greetings from northern germany ❤

11:05 min we pay for the "alliance", UK, USA, France, Russia and others. In the Weimar Republic, the government was unable to meet the "excessive" reparation demands (especially demanded by France) of 2 billion Reichsmarks (9.8 billion euros) annually. Because the economy was in ruins. France took the Saarland, occupied the Ruhr area and Germany had to give Alsace and Lorraine back to France. There was a general strike in the Ruhr area because the residents didn't realize that they were sacrificing their labor for France in order to pay off the debts. So in 1923 there was a new negotiation between the Allies and Germany and the debts were allowed to be paid off in kind and with long repayment periods, hence the repayment until 2010. France gave the Ruhr area back because they saw that without the Ruhr area, Germany could not make the repayments. The Saar region remained in French hands and was later occupied by the Nazis and reintegrated into the German Reich.

4:39 i made 4 Kids bevor i left to Barcelona Spain, so it wasnt me. 😂

Russia, Danmark with greenland not anymore, France, Ukraine, Spain, Sweden, Germany.

Much more brutal than the treaty of Versailles was the treaty of Saint Germain, which cost Austria seven eighths (!!!) of its former territory.

After WW2, gemany was divided into 4 "Besatzungszones" (Occupation zones), controlled by the US, great Britain, France and the Siviet Union. The Soviet sector eventually became the GDR (German Democratic Republic, funny name for a socialist dictatorship BTW), while the other sectors became the FRG (Federal Reublic of Germany). This made Germany the "front state" of the cold war.

I know some persons without children. Reasons: 1) They did not get one, but they would have loved to have children (biggest group of the persons I know) 2) They did not find a partner (But some men start getting their first child (or their second generation of children) with about 50 years or older (better than never ...)) 3) Only very few: They don't want to have children

Germans emigrate to these nine countries most often! 1st place, Switzerland 2, Austria 3, Spain 4, France 5, Netherlands 6, Italy 7, Sweden 8, Norway 9, Denmark

I had to evacuate my apartment a couple of weeks ago, because they found two WW2 bombs in my area. I'm from Kiel, Germany and this city was heavily bombarded during WW2.

21:34 What did he say, West-Saxony? There is no such state, it's called Lower Saxony in English! West-Saxony is actually Wessex, that's not in Germany I think ; )

Hamburg is so amazing ❤