Facts About Germans Never Taught In School By Thomas Sowell REACTION 

Germans were extremely popular settlers in Medieval Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe as well as early modern Russia because they were very skilled and productive (=taxable!) and usually didn't make their culture anyone else's issue.

As a German I have to say, that it seems like we have no national identity anymore. The one thing, that we're perfect at, at present is to put ourselfs down for every little thing that goes wrong. It seems we hate ourself more than other do. Sad, but true. ☝️

As A German I obviously feel very happy when reaction videos talk so high about us but to be fair... I am pretty sure you can do such a video for most countries around the world :)

While living in Siberia for some years as a German a funny thing happened. I heard a lot of high praise for Germans building houses, being more orderly, etc. There was also a rumor about small "German" towns in the Altai. To be honest I mostly put that down on sweet talk and them trying to be flattering. Then after two years being on a business trip I came to a place and there was a house named "pharmacy ", "townhall", the fences were standing straight! I couldn't believe my eyes. It was very touching to see that after literally houndreds of years regardless to being deported by Stalin to the middle of Siberia in the forties the German-ness was still so obvious.

Most beer breweries in the US were started by German speaking people...the oldest brewery ,still operating , Yuengling (probably Jüngling) was started by the Yuengling, Busch, Anheuser, Coors and on and on.Isenbeck in Argentina, Tsiangtoa in China,Eisenbahn in Brazil......

2:30 its true. My father is a german from the city Akkerman, Basarabia, Russia from the Black Sea. Today its called Bilhorod-Dnistrowskyj an area between Ukrain and Moldavia. They were resettled to Poland during the war and had to flee from there to Germany. Those who failed were then resettled by the Russians to Kazakhstan. In their USSR identity card was written: Citizenship: USSR; Nationality: German.

Im a German who lived in different countries and even though I’m not a historian I learned that every country has it’s „darker“ parts in history. I was raised with a stamp of shame for being a German. My grandparents told me stories about the end of the war and how it was being raised in that time. It was a horrible part of German history. But that’s it. Thanks to videos like yours and my travels I learned that being German is not just bad. I think we should never forget and honor history. Learn from the good and bad. If we filter all of Germans past through the Second World War, it feels like the bad guys won.

Refrigerators In 1876, the German engineer and entrepreneur Carl von Linde developed the Linde process, which is fundamental to science and technology, as a purely physical cooling process. His invention made it possible to improve the reliability of the compressor and the entire refrigeration machine so that they became suitable for industrial use. Before that, there were only refrigerators in which blocks of ice from frozen rivers and lakes were stored over the winter, which were then used for cooling in summer... So, are there refrigerators in Germany? Yes, the world's first industrial refrigerators were invented right here...as was so much else.

Amerigo Vespucci (9 Mar. 1451 to 22 Feb. 1512) -- an Italian merchant, navigator and explorer from the Republic of Florence -- charted large parts of the east coast of South America. In 1507, German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller named the double continent of America after him.

German say: if you do something, do it right. Which means with all your effort and thoughtful

Qingdao brewery was founded by Germans in 1903. Qingdao was a german colony from 1898 to 1914. The City Center of Qingdao looks like a City in Germany. Same houses like here in Germany. After the germans had left, the chinese continued to run the brewery and maintained and preserved the houses. Every time i'm there i feel a little bit like at home.

I am german. And it is kind of odd. I say: I am glad to be german and I am proud of our past and all the stuff the former germans invented the reaction is always the same. No matter where I am. The others: You can't say that as a german. You are a nazi. But when americans say that they are proud no one mentions that they have slain millions of native people. Which live in reserves by the way. The reserve thing is like the time Hitler was ruling germany. He put Jews in ghettos. But when he did it is a big no no. But when americans do this it is... Normal? I mean... Wtf?

The whole "everything leads up to Hitler" perception is actually it's own debate among German historians called the "Historian's debate" (Historikerstreit) or more precise "the special way (to national unity) debate" (die Sonderweg Debatte). Having studied history in Frankfurt for almost ten years I'd say the whole idea is an inverted obsession the immediate post-war generation of German historians of Germany beeing "special" and thus perversely continuing the NSDAP idea of Germany beeing exceptional just in this case beeing Mordor for twelve years... "exceptionally evil" but exceptional. I feel it's idiotic and has echoes of a gleefull, almost sexual, masochistic obsession with shame - "spank me hard oh history!"🙄. But maybe that's just me, I also feel that Prussia was grossly and unfairly mistreated after the War... but then I am of Prussian- Huguenot descend... 😂 Best regards Raoul G. Kunz

Like the UK with Hong Kong, Germany had until WW1 a autonomous colony in China. From 1898 to 1919 the city Tsingtau belonged to German Kiautschou colony. Germans dont wanted to miss their beer in Tsingtau and build there the Germania brewery wich still exists today under the name Tsingtao. The Tsingtao brewery is currently the largest in the world.

As a German I have to say: Sure, if you take our best examples, we definitely end up sounding like a fantastic bunch of guys. 😀

i was born in germany, raised, and still live here. for the longest time i felt bad being german because of the first half of the 20th century history. i have thought about it a lot, i really struggled with it, but i have come to a conclusion what "being german" is, atleast for me. when i do something voluntarily, i want to do it perfectly and atleast do it right. i like to argue and want to be right, and i mean not talking someone into something but convincing them. for me "being german" is "striving for excellence". i see how some people with that feeling, with a hint of hubris and narcissm, and without self-restraint, can easily slip into a mindset that enables something like the third reich. its like most things: the extreme form is really bad but the basis has potential to be really good

To my knowledge, while keeping their own language alive, German immigrants usually spoke the language of their respective host nations and respected their culture and customs. That's not what we're seeing today.

Thank you, Mert, you are a very fair and open minded commentator without prejudices, preconceived notions and a stamped worldview. What germans of today really hate is, when people of other countries think they can judge over their country, knowing only a little bit about a inglorious period of time, ONLY 12 YEARS!, where they had a blackout, whereas major imperialistic countries like England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Mongolia, etc. have done crimes against humanity DURING CENTURIES! And they have never paid for it, they have never regret it, excused for it, made amends! Even though they are so guilty. It's high time they finally held accountable for all their crimes. The Germans of today want HONESTY AND JUSTICE, they are fed up with the hypocrisy of dumb badasses which think they can judge about their grandfathers, whilst concealing and suppressing all the atrocities that their own countries had done. This is in special directed to the warloving USA, that like that crank sort of making profit, by walking over corpses.

When I lived in Peru for a few years I visited the German/Austrian colony of Pozuzo in the Oxapampa Province. German architecture, restaurants and a German brewery can be found there. They even celebrate the Oktoberfest there each year. Not too many people spoke German though.

As a German and a hobby historian, the horrors of the era between 1933 and 1945 was an extension of pre-existing trends, though far from a certainty nor something that only could've happened here. So much of what has happened was modeled after earlier similar events, perpetrated by the Ottomans, the Americans, the Belgians, German colonial adminstrations... The list goes on. And it should be noted that that's the duality of man, being capable of great works but also great evils. Look at the UK and its colonial legacy, the US and its treatment of Native Americans and African-Americans, Japan and its history. Just because Germany did abhorrent things doesn't negate the good aspects of German history.

German settlements, e.g. in Russia would often be complete villages to resettle devastated areas after war or famine and thus be culturally isolated. In the US Germans would mostly be farmers going west, living in again small isolated communities and so be mostly among themselves. This was promoted by the fact than some groups, like the Texas Germans came in organized groups, organized by rich aristocrats, who kept everyone together. It should also be noted that the German language is one of the central aspects defining Germans, and thus central to German culture.

Es erfreut einen jeden Deutschen, dass Mert eine so aufschlussreiche Sammlung deutscher Taten, hier gesammelt von Thomas Sowell, ins Netz stellt. Während wir Deutschen immer noch glauben, wir müssten uns kleinreden, kleinmachen, kleinkriegen (lassen), damit uns die anderen Länder ein bißchen mögen, wird hier gezeigt, dass wir durchaus ein ehrenwerter Teil der Erdenbevölkerung sind, die anderen immer gerne was gegönnt, gegeben, ja geschenkt haben.

Hello ! I'm from Germany . I just discovered your channel! I have to say I like your dialect because my English teacher had the same one! That is 35 YEARS ago! The first YT channel that I understand well! THANKS !!!

I (53) and German really grew up feeling very very very ashamed for my ancestors. So much shame, you cannot make it good anymore. Sad, isn't it?😢

As a German, I am sad to see what we have become a synonym for today: 'legalized Korruption', Failed budgetplanning, imkompetent politicians and insane laws. As well as forcing depts on other countries all the while draining the "common working class people" of everything they still "own". "Runs like a german train schedule" is still pretty accurate. Just the meaning did a "360° turn" (A.Baerbock) - meaning a 180 for the rest of the world.

born in the previous mid century I grew up being utterly ashamed of being German. I have been raging against my parents why they didn't do something about it - not realising they have been children and teenagers in that time. But they where silent. They where also silent about that my grandfather very very quietly helped a very few Jews to escape which I found out about decades later. Travelling abroad I strove to speak English accent free in order not to be identifiably German. Staying in a Johannesburg Hotel I met Israeli businessman (them not knowing I am German) the conversation went to Germany's guilt and reparation. What they said in a nutshell: very few speak about the Holocaust maybe only the old and orthodox ones, there was and is Antisemitism all over the world, actually in centuries past there was the least of it in the German speaking realm thats why so many lived there and Yiddish is so closely related to German . German guilt is a business asset therefore it needs to be kept going. From extensive reading I found - the racial theory with all the horrible aspects was developed in England and found attentive ears in Germany as well. Concentration camps - developed from the Spanish-Cuban Ten Years' War, to the British Second Boer War and the Philippine-American War finally to Germany as well. How to implement Race segregation followed initially the USA-model for their African citizens. My point of view: all of the different bits which came to this hellishly efficient head in Germany had their roots somewhere else. It is NOT an inborn German trait. And as far as responsibility for the most dead human beings in the 20th century is concerned - Hitler ranked 3rd. First being Mao, second Stalin. So, to point the finger at Germans makes it so much easier to overlook the own part in diverse atrocities

Yayy, Germany!!! 🇩🇪🇩🇪

Just saw a few days ago a video eveybody seems to notice right now: How "Made in Germany" Became a Seal of Quality Fun fact, as a german i didn't even know that made in germany had this kind of meaning. :) I like your neutral point of view and appreciate it. It's funny that so many people seem to like it more to learn about other countries, then they're living in.

I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter. Stupid oversimplified: Rejects Roman annexation - Germanic Tribes defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them Creates an empire that wasn't really an empire but also was an empire and somehow lived for over 1000 years - very special and unique The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals. defeats the French, unites into a new empire Get a colonial empire Fights 80% of the world alone and almost won.. Is treated badly Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world and only lost because of own mistakes.. Gets divided again Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again. Also a few German inventions: - Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854) - The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859) - The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866) - The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925) - Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany - 1938) - The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969) - Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864) - Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873) - The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887) - The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879) - Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902) - Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903) - the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg) - The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz) - Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928) - Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929) - The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929) - First rocket (in general, Hans von Ohain) - The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941) - First 3D film (during the Third Reich) - Fanta (Yes THAT Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US buyed thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) The first letterpress Mashine (Which was probably the best invention of all time because now they could start printing books, Johannes Gutenberg - 1440) - the trigger of the gold rush (Johann August Sutter was a Swiss but actually German since he was born in Germany, but Swiss and German are one blood anyway, Who triggered the gold rush in America. Not an inventor but cool fact - 1848) Well, as you saw, the Germans changed the world with their inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German art of thinking. Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it was known (Actually) The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy. It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all Germans were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head.. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. You can imagine the Nazis like a natural dark Parasite Rising from the suffering of the Germans. And the 'Problem' is that Germans are People who have a very special work and perfectionism mentality. That's not a weak enemy. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power. We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age. What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same. Thanks for listening 🥂 I would be in favor of not only teaching the Americans that Germany is the bad guy and that they really deal with it. Most of the settlers who came to America at that time were German. Over 40 million. That's why the Americans have so many German names. That's why the Americans love German culture and are surrounded by it, but don't want to admit it. Every "your" fairy tale was recorded and reinvented by the Brothers Grimm, they were German. But the Americans didn't understand the original meaning behind the brutal children's fairy tales and weakened them. That shows you how stupid most of them actually are over there. It was always about raising children. If they have something on their mind and are afraid of it, they remember it. It also hardened the children. Even though we no longer live in times when war is normal, the world hasn't gotten any easier.. But that's why we're talking about Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, and not America. The Americans would be nothing without the German thinkers and craftsmen. The Germans always had these brilliant ideas.. Which makes me doubt whether they are actually all the same. Almost every big ami company or rich family comes from Germans. If you look at history and see that wherever the Germans went, something big happened. The world was then populated by German emigrants. But since there was no unified Germany or Germany in general at the time, there were only German states or kingdoms such as Austria, Bavaria, Switzerland. There was no national immigration. Just like in America. But something big was still happening everywhere Germans were going. All over the world I see people talking about German books and poems and the culture that shaped them as children. Tyll Ulenspiegel is an example. I find it very interesting. We should talk about it and explain it.

Important German Personalities: p.s. those are by far not all of them Richard Wagner (composer) Johann Sebastian Bach (composer) Johannes Brahms (composer) Richard Strauss(composer) Ludwig van Beethoven (composer) Georg Friedrich Händel (composer) Franz Schubert (composer) Robert Schumann (composer) Albrecht Dürer (Painter) Adolf Dassler (Founder of Adidas) Rudolf Dassler (Founder of Puma) Johann Philipp Reis (Inventor of the telephone) and (Founder of the Telekom) Carl Benz (Inventor of the car) (Founder of Mercedes Benz) Karl Rapp and Gustav Otto (Founder of BMW) Josef Granz/Ferdinand Porsche;[Deutsche Arbeitsfront] (Founder of VW) August Horch (Founder of Audi) Ferdinand Porsche (Founder of Porsche) Johannes Gensfleisch(Gutenberg) (Inventor of the letter press"Buchdruck") Heinrich Göbel (Inventor of the Lightbulb) Julius Lothar Meyer(Dmitri mendelejew)(Inventor of the periodic table) Werner/Konrad von Siemens (Inventor of the Dynamo and tram) Friedrich Engelhorn (Founder of BASF) Paul Beiersdorf (Founder of Nivea) Gottlieb Daimler (Inventor of the motorcycle) Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (Inventor of X-raying) Hans Riegel (Inventor of Gummibärchen) Oscar Barnack (Inventor of the "Kleinbildkamera") Otto Hahn (Inventor of the nuclear fission) Konrad Zuse (Inventor of the Computer) Helmut Gröttrup and Jürgen Dethloff (Inventor of the chipcard) Herzog Wilhelm IV. (Inventor of the "Reinheitsgebot") Albert Einstein (Inventor of the theory of relativity) Manfred von Ardenne (Inventor of the TV) Karl Leo (Inventor of the OLED Technology) Martin Luther (monk and theology Professor) Otto von Bismarck (Chancellor) Rudolf Diesel (Inventor of the Dieselmotor) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Poet) Immanuel Kant (Philosopher) Karl Lagerfeld (Fashion Designer) Caspar David Friedrich (Painter) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (Philosopher) Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher) Joseph von Eichendorff (Poet) Karl der Große (Kaiser, Emperor) Otto Lilienthal (Inventor of the gliding plane "Gleitflugzeug") Ottomar von Mayenburg (Inventor of Toothpaste "Chlorodont") Hermann Kemper (Inventor of the Maglev Train)

This is why I am so proud to have been to Walhalla in Regensburg, 2k of Germanic history. It makes you think, how far the culture I was brought up in has come, globally. xD

Well , the conditions in the Peace Treaty of Versailles after Germany surrendered in the 1 st World War layed the ground for the 2 nd one . The citizens of Germany suffered under the high reparations the must pay to the Winner Countrys , there was a Hyperinflation , an several year long economic recession , they wanted a strong Men , a strong leader and the one which promised an end to all of this was someone from outside Germany , a man called Hitler from Austria ..... , the rest is History . Its like with Brexit , there was someone who promised everything gets better after the UK leaves the EU and 52 % of Voters believed him and is it now better ? I dont think so ...

For me, as a German, your Scottish is easier to understand than English, some words sound very German. Also, "Scottish reaction" has to be in the title somehow ;)

Wenn die deutsche seele erstmal wieder versteht wer sie wirklich ist ,die zeit kommt immer näher wo die deutsche seele wieder deutsch ist und voller stolz auf sein Land ! Ich bin stolz deutsche zu sein ! Die "dunkle" Vergangenheit darf sich niemals wiederholen ,allerdings was danach bis heute mit den deutschen gemacht wurde auch nicht ! Wir sind alle eins ,alle Menschen,egal aus welchem Land wir sind !

As a german, it is heartwarming to see, that lots of ppl. from outside germany, appreciate our old culture and influence. While our own politicians destroys everything. Germans today live in a invisible golden cage. You're not allowed to say you're proud, bc than you're a nazi. These ppl. do everything to make the germans fall silent. That's why I say, maybe after 3 or 4 generations nothing to be proud of is left over. Culture dies, language dies, respecful human beeing dies, quality dies, good doctors well they don't all die but lot's of them left the sinking ship. I can tell by watching this downward spiral for about more or less 30 years now. Tbh most germans I know aren't even able to talk and write correctly in their main language... Btw. sorry for my english, I guess it's a bad quality example as well.

A fun fact concerning the point you made about Germany being renowned for the quality of products. The label „made in Germany“ was actually introduced by the British in an attempt to protect their own markets from the imported goods. It backfired hilariously because the British people recognised the quality of the German goods and started to look for the label. The brand is Germany’s most important success in public relations to this day, so thank you Britain! Another thing, both my family and my wife’s family were displaced from their homes after the war, because they belong to Czechia and Poland now. It happened to millions. My wife’s grandmother‘s family was actually very wealthy but lost everything except for the clothes on their backs. She passed away recently, having been almost 100 years old. She had a lot of stories to tell.

It's really funny, I'm from germany and I didn't know the most of these things. It's interesting to see something that you won't get teached in german school, so there isn't something special i didn't know. I just know that the Kindergarden is also an german invention. Also a lot of philosophers and scientists (like Einstein, Luther, Beethoven, johan Gottlieb) are from germany and a part of the alchemy have his roots in germany. I also have to say thanks, it often feels like you will called "nazi" after you told someone that you are from germany. Have a nice day everyone

It's definetly the latter. The lead-up to WW1, the revolt of the Kriegsmarine in Kiel, the subsequent 'abdication' of the Kaiser and the Formation of the Weimar Republic, already on the cusp of a Civil War at it's inception and paired with the humiliation at Versailles with the EXCLUSIVE moral fault to the war (like litterally, the fault to a War that had many fathers was laid solely upon the conscience of the german people) and with the follow of deprivations, excesses and tumultous times of the Roaring 20s all of which lead to the rise of Nazism with all it's terrible rammifications in the time from 1933 to 1945. It was a pretty wild rollercoaster ride alright?

In Southern Afrika there are german communities to this day including schools, hostels, churches with their own cultural traditions like german beer, Oktoberfest, german butcheries, bakeries etc. Still Valuable contributers to the local economy but also still not as "welcome" because they mostly keep to themselves.

Curiously "made in Germany" was not made to be a marker for excellent quantity. It was meant to warn british citizens they're about to buy a foreign product from Germany in stead of a local product.

German design language has a strong influence on the modern world. For example, the iPhone, or the entire design of Apple goes back to simplicity and efficiency of Bauhaus design. Dieter Rams was the mentor of many of today's successful designers.

Honorary mention to Great Britain for giving the world "Made in Germany" labels xD

so much love from germany to scotland and to you - you do so much to bring peope together - love ya for that

der adulf guy was austrian btw.

Im proud beeing a German..and proud of my Homeland...but Not of the goverment❤😊

Hey we went further east and even taught the Japanese how to brew beer. I think it is Saporo beer which got directly taught by a small brewery from Fuerstenwalde close to Berlin.

There is an interesting conversation/studdy one could try to do about how german settlers/imigrants managed to keep a lot of their cultural heritage (language, architecture, traditions, etc) while also managing to integrate into the new country/society over time and largly avoiding the generational split/disconect that many other ethnic groups ended up trapped in over the centuries. It seems that especially in the last 30 or so years, we got rising numbers of mixed-ethicity youth, especially in america, batteling with the conflict of not knowing where they firt in. But it seems most previlent in groups like asien-americans or afro-americans. Despite america having many towns who's population where originaly german based, I haven't seen the same problem come up with "german-americans" (Hell, I haven't even heard anyone use that term before to describe themself or others! For all I know, it doesn't exist as a real term the way "afro-american" does!). It would be interesting to see a scholar take a stab at history to see if they can find out why that is. Becouse there has to be SOMETHING that coused that difference in outcome!

My grandfather passed away in 2015. He was born the year before the Nazis rose to power and his favourite joke on his birthday in 2013 was that he's almost 1070 years old - Hitler called his 3rd Reich "the 1000 year kingdom" and he just turned 80..

Somehow it felt like the list of inventions ended around 1800, just when a whole century of massive innovations and scientific break throughs happened. Konrad Röntgen invented X-Rays, Bosch invented the fertilizer, laying the ground for multiplying earth population and so on.

Budweiser indeed changed over time, as did the others. During prohibition, the 2-3 largest brewing companies were able to produce products they had lobbied to remain legal. Most of the other beer and liquor producers went under. After prohibition, these companies used strong arm tactics and lobbying for regulations to prevent other companies from being able to compete. That dominance of the market would continue up into the 21st century, when things like microbreweries and brew pubs were finally legalized and able to compete. During the time that the major American breweries had no domestic competition, their quality decreased decade by decade. There's actually a similar story in American coffee companies. When they eliminated all competition they went o the cheapest most poorly made product that could still legally be called coffee. Because Americans literally had no other choices.

6:11 The map was made 1507 from Martin Waldseemüller (1472/1475 -1520) He was born in Wolfenweiler im Breisgau and studied maths and geografic in the University of Freiburg im Breisgau. At the campus you can see a copy of the map. The last original was sold 2001 to the USA. It was a special approval necessary because it was a cultural property of Germany. Now it is in the Library of Congress.

Just some thoughts to your opening question: what we have learned and experienced together in the last 3 years, that all countries, people and cultures can drift from enlightened free countries to fascistoid tyranny in a matter of weeks. Have we learned from German history? History does not repeat itself, it rhymes! I am still shocked by the fact how easy it is to exclude and tyrannize people....

Thanks for sharing. Well, I don‘t especially like the documentary because it focuses too much on migration topics instead of showing what the Germans invented and brought to the world. It‘s so much more to cover! Maybe you‘ll find another video which can show all the great leaps in science, crafts and literature. So many things to talk about.

The Germans contributed significantly in whatever region they decided to immigrate to. The locals benefited from them and most were proud of them though few got jealous of them.

There are many things about our countries we never learn in school today. If we did, we would love them and take care of them much more. We all have hundreds of generations to look back on, to be proud of their heritage and thankful for their toils that brought us where we are, and thousands upon thousands of generations yet to follow us, for whom we now pave the way. It will do us and our loved ones good to think of that once in a while.

As a german i find it saddening that we have no more national pride whatsoever. Of course something like Nazi Germany is never allowed to happen again but it would be nice if sometimes we would focus on ourselves and fix our problems rather than trying to help everyone else in the world first.

i think there is a difference between being integrated and keeping up language and tradition and on the other side keeping it and refuse to integrate. most countries back then profited from german immigration. most immigrants today (from a german perspective) bring no benefit to the country, they are more likely seen as cost factors and trouble makers. but this is no matter of times we live in. italians and asians are well integrated even today in germany. there are zivilizations that fit and others that dont fit together.

He missed one important "invention": J S Bach invented the 12 tunes in modern music. The piece is called "the well-tempered clavier".

How little I know about my home. Thanks for teaching/showing.

thank you for your video and greetings from southwest germany.....thumb up

You can thank Kaiser Wilhelm for Daylight Savings Time and the lack of sleep it causes.

Es wäre anstrebenswert, dass ein eigenes Wikipedia über deutsche Forscher, Entdecker, Raketenbauer, Theologen (z. B. Brüdergemeine'), Politiker, Gelehrte, Architekten, Militärs, Künstler, in welchen Ländern der Erde auch immer, angelegt würde .

To see, that germany is not seen stereotypical but seriously makes me feel good. Also grew my believe in humans.

The funny thing is, that the anglo saxons who moved to the island and founded England brought their germanic language forming a new dialect "English" of ancient German developing to a new language but is very close to modern German still.,

I wonder wether Albert Einstein and Wernher v. Braun weren't present in the video. Both were german immigrants to the US and dramatiically changed the whole world of science.....

They almost brought worldpeace to the whole world, two times!

Germans never existed the same as Britains. The governments, the politics, the geostratical situation created a history. The warcrimes and crimes against humanity commited from "Germany" should teach everybody that we always have to fight for human rights and protect them at all costs.

I heard about that in my birth town Freiburg im Breisgau the Name America was invented. But I never new if this is true. But it looks looks that the Freiburger cartograph Herr Waldseemüller 1507 thought Amerigo Vespucci discovered the continent and therefor named the new continent America. You can see it on pictures of his map.

Being a Dutchy and yet being of German ancestry (since 1752 in The Netherlands) I do recognize this item. Many many true Dutch families turn out to be of German ancestry, whether they like this or not. A fact after all is a fact. See WW2 is never far away in daily life here in The Netherlands, although WW2 already is 80 years ago. For the generation which actually was in WW2, it often was a traumatic experience which gave many people PTSD and besides soldiers many common people as well. The same common people whom were trying to raise a family in this horrific era suffering of PTSD and all and so creating a newly born generation in WW2 or slightly after WW2 being exposed to PTSD parents and a PTSD society. The people growing up in WW2 are called first generation war victim and the children this first generation war victim raised are called second generation war victims (born in the late 40's, in the 50's, the 60's and even the 70's) , since they had to deal with their PTSD parents and PTSD grand parents, and all other people suffering from PTSD ( Family like aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, anybody) since such a grand war will leave a huge impact in any society. These are the consequences decennia after a war people were not in themselves and yet they struggle with the direct or indirect consequences of this war. This is the reason why some people in 2024 still can react strongly negatively to German people, Germany, the German language, but they do prefer German products: household items (kitchen, washing machine, coffee maker, etc.) and of course they prefer to have a German car in front of their door. The duality (originating from PTSD trauma) of rejecting the country, the language and the German people, and yet coveting German products is characteristic. Even today (2024), some young families are not free from PTSD and raise their children with such a duality between rejecting and desiring people and things of German origin, which for example at football matches between The Netherlands and Germany will come to the surface again.

When you‘ve been asked where you‘re from in holidays as a german there is always that answer that they know a famous German - Hitler…

Johann Philipp Reis was the inventor of the Telefon. Alexander Graham Bell patented it. Most classical Christmas carols are of German / Austrian origin. Sandra Bullock speaks fluent German. I don’t however know whether all claims in this video are true.

As a German, I only now realised after this video how sad it is that we lost so much about our culture. We still do things as we used to but I feel like we aren't as proud of it as we used to be due to all the shame world war two has braught. Since then some time has passed, but even the younger generations nowadays don't enjoy being german most of the time. Videos like this make me wish that someday we can openly be proud without being hated for it. So thank you for this reaction. 🥺💙

You took a complicated subject, Sir. But I trust your instinct as a Scotsman... with a kind of ACDC spirit behind you... give me some days for answering :)

Producing beer and working hard seems to be well received in many countries.

You should take a look at the history of German Imigrants in Chile more than 160 years ago, and theyr influence in society, as laws, firefighters, army, police, health system, education and almost "terraforming" in the south of the country. You'll be surprised! Best regards.

Great Thanks, from Germany! I'm glad and said aswell, that people mostly in other nations say, "You can be proud to be German". But almost nobody here in Germany. In my schooltime (90s and early 2000's), we learned that we are the reason for WW1 and WW2. I swear! In short... "We are bad". Nothing to be proud to be German. Here in Germany, you can see documentations about Hitler and these dark age since decades on Free-Tv. Financed with our taxes. For sure, these times should never happen again! But the 40-Years of depression, torture and death in East-Germany, are going under in the media and politics today. Maybe for a reason.... Sympathizers and officials of the GDR are still in Service... We pay for anything in these World. For destabilized countries from the US (Afghanistan and almost the whole North-Africa for example) refugees etc , escape aid in 3rd. world countries since decades with no effects and rules to control .We finance almost the whole European Union and risking our business for it. But, it is not enough. They blackmail Germany for WW2 reparations (Greece in the economic crisis 2008 for example) if we pay not enough. And all we paid in the decades after WW2 is worthless! That is what you hear indirect as a German-citizen from our government, the media and the rest of the world. Taxes and living expenses are rising since years. Our birthrate is shrinking extremely fast. Professionals leave the expensive Germany. That's a reason, how our government want migration (cheap paid workers)... with the really bad and criminal effects. Many can't pay a bigger home for a baby. You know what i want to say. Despite all these .... Our Culture is not death. We live here as good as we can, and love the nature of our green wooden country. Sorry, for my bad english. :)

While the "made in Germany" label was originally a British designation to make it clear that these were shoddy German products compared to fine industrial products of the British empire. And in the beginning of the industrial revolution that was even true. Germany simply wasn't a united nation yet, lacked standardized tools and regulations. While the British were among the first with working, reliable, powerful steam engines. This drove up British productivity. The central regulations demanded by both parliament and the British crown made certain that norms for production abd quality were established. However, the Germans of the time quickly cottoned on and sent students into GB to study (and copy) their technology. Soon after the first railroad with a steam engine had been built in Britain, German engineers pretty much copied these designs and built their own train from Nürnberg to Fürth. The same happened for other British inventions. They were often copied, but with the knowledge of their first iteration flaws German engineers were given a chance to improve on them. While the "made in Germany" label was originally intended to make certain that the British could easily discern them from until then superior British products, it quickly got a label of exceptional quality. Because Germany simply couldn't cope with the masses of products the British industry could churn out. So Germans went the other way: smaller amounts but exceptionally high quality. Once that label started to stick, it became a runaway snowball. Even when some German products were objectively not as good, they were still flagged under the now top quality label of "made in Germany". But here comes something of a kernel of truth: Germans do tend to be tinker with machinery, until they are happy with the quality. Good enough is rarely what a German finds acceptable. So even objectively worse products were regularly given a functional make-over, until they became better. Second part: the number of Germans able to read due to the many printing presses was already a lot higher than in many industrial countries back then. With the old guild system of setting up long lasting training regimes for apprentices, engineers came with a very high degree of knowledge and understanding of the principles behind the machines. Not only the basic understanding how to operate a machine by turning this knob, then pulling that lever, in a certain sequence, but the actual function of each individual part as a whole. That's when German engineering took off. That label of "made in Germany" being a top quality sign lasted for roughly 100 years. In the last two decades it has however fallen behind. Not that German products aren't okay to good but they've lost their seeming untouchable quality label. Not that such a seeming untouchable quality was ever warranted.

There is a sentence my father once told me about working in manual labour. "do everything you do to a quality where you would be willing to pay you the money that you want for youre work."

MINDEXPLOSION: Erhard Landmann Book name : " world view shaking. The correct decipherment of the hieroglyphic writings" When you read the ancient Mayan scriptures or atzen with a very, very old High German, it suddenly makes sense! BOOOM

I love being German and understood early in school what they plan to teach us to hate ourselves. Unfortunately, it works quite well, as you can see from German politics. But, slowly the sheet turns, that pendel always strikes in both directions🎉 🍻 regards from Germany

My Grandfather (Prof. Dr. Dr. Mario Zippermayr) was one of 5 chief Science Head of department under the leading from Wernher v. Braun in Penemünde and the US searched for him to bring him to the states. He fled in the mountains of lofer. To bad. He should have gone with the US and probably would have become a very rich scientist!

You learn about the "German settlements" partly in history lessons (for example: Volga Germans, Transylvanian Germans, settlement of Prussia), others you can also learn from television documentaries: for example: "Die Welt op Platt". A series by Norddeutscher Rundfunk about places around the world where some form of Low German is still spoken. Moderators: Jared Dibaba and Julia Westlake. Oh and don't forget Jared Dibaba grew up as an emigrant in a small northern German town and learned to "snack op platt" in kindergarten.

All that has been stated in the videos "facts" about Germany are true - I am German by migrating here over two decades ago. Before that I grew up under the pen and constitution and history of the UK/British Empore. All I read and know from British history is one-sided. Knowing more about Germany and its history and people broaden my understanding of the world we now live in.

"Deutsche Bahn" - a hard working, very punctual corporation

Danke🙏

What is lost in this video is that many of the people mentioned had a predominantly Jewish identity instead of a German one, even though they came from Germany and spoke German. We have many similarities, but are also very different. You can see it in the language, most of them spoke (and still speak) Yiddish, which is a mixture of Hebrew and German, and I'm able to understand much of it with no issue. The evolution of language that happens along migration is a very interesting topic in general.

I'm russian with german roots. My ancestors lived in ukraine for 200 years, they build russian/ukraine villages with only german people. my great-grandmother, even born in ukraine, couldn't even speak russian/ukraine because only men left the village for trade etc. WW2 went crazy and rest is a long story

My Heart melting right now as a german.

I am from Germany, so I will not try to suggest, that I can be in any way neutral at this issue: During traveling to different places on different continents I have learned that in many cases, you could find some German or Czech person somewhere in the history of a brewery, if you find a surprisingly good tasting beer (and sometimes even if the beer is not tasting). 😊 I was surprised to learn, that the American "Budweiser" was created by German immigrants, because it is named after a city in the Czech Republic and so I have always thaught that some Czechs are to blame for that beer. But according to Wikipedia the documentation is correct and I will admit that Eberhard Anheuser and Adolphus Busch sound like pretty German names (for that time), so we have to own this one. 😀

I have ancestors where parts of the family emigrated to the Volga in the 18th century and after the First World War distant relatives to the USA (Iowa). After the Second World War, one great uncle emigrated to Canada and one to Australia. I have only been able to find info about the family branch in the USA. My history teacher always said that 31 years of history (1914-1945) destroyed almost 1000 years of German culture - in my opinion, this is a bit too simplified, but the core statement also has a lot of truth. I think the culture of remembrance about our darkest parts in history helps to hopefully not repeat it. Somehow we Germans are strange folks. Hard-working, dutiful/penitent/orderly sometimes to the point of ridiculousness, but also belligerent (if you follow our politics) and grumble at a very high level about every little thing. 🤭I also didn't realize before all the reaction videos on yt how positively Germany is viewed abroad.

and we germans love you 🙂

my grandmother would also be chased back to germany, although they owned a farm for centuries

So what I've gathered from this video: If you want a good beer, ask a german

almost every city in germany has at least one brewery in a basement somewhere

Nice video! What accent is that, scottish or irish? It's perfect for telling stories imo and I could listen all the time. Greetings from Germany ✌

Danke!

I live where Hermann sent the Romans home. It is terrible that 11 years under Hitler have almost erased the memories of thousands of other years.

And still: We are often only beeing remembered for WW1-2. Even in germany itself...Stuff like this is never taught in german history lessons, we only get "Germans=bad" hammered into our heads...

Tsing Tao come from a former German province. That is why.

The story about the Monks wich created the first accurate world map and named America ist pretty interesting. Worth looking into.