Geography Now! Germany REACTION 

German here: Some parts in the Video are a litte outdated now, but in general it was very accurate. About our past: It is not that we don't talk about it! On the contrary we talk about the NS time A LOT. This is the only way to learn about your history. The bad stuff has to be adressed! Great reaction, and all the best from southern germany (where we speak in a way unintelligable to fellow germans xD )

I don't think it's odd that Germans think about their past and regret it the way they do, what's weird to me is how countries like the US or UK aren't thinking like that.

Every country has black pages in it's history. But few have redeemed themselves like the Germans have. Unlike Japan , germany actually deals with Ww2 history and confronts its past. Japan basically burried the autrocities, and teaches it was a victim rather than an agressor.

There is no country that costs so much damage and bad in such a short time as Germany did and there is no country that achieves much good in a short time as Germany did Respect to Germany

Germany has also the Gesamtschule , a school where you don`t have to choose between different graduations until your in 9th Grade. Then you can go for the secondary school leaving certificate. In 10th Grade you can go for the Realschulabschluss and in higher grades for the High school leaving certificate

If I was a Geography teacher, I wouldn’t teach my students anything. I’d just stream Geography Now videos in the classroom. 🤣

Nice reaction, by the way we have more than 3200 different typs of bread and more than 1500 different typs of sausages... Look up the story of Goetz von Berlichingen, he was a famous german knight with a iron hand. Great and funny and true history.

Tornado in Germany - in the USA 'it's a bit windy'...

Thank you for beeing so interested in my country 👍👍

Actually, back in school, I wanted to do a history project on that book, I started reading it (old German letters of an edition published before 1945). It was terrible, mad ramblings and badly written too. You do not miss anything if you are not able to read that "book".

Germany was lucky to have Ludwig Erhard (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard for details), first as Federal Minister of Economic Affairs and later as Chancellor. I dare not speculate what would have happened to Germany's post-war economy without his expertise (a Ph.D. degree business economics, among other things), ideas and commitment.

Germany has about 4 - 7 tornadoes per year. In the USA, there are about 1,250 tornadoes per year on average. Germany may be Europe's "tornado alley", but they still don't get that many.

Need more geography now videos! This is awesome guys!

Just wanna mention that WW1 was not started by Germany, but by Austria. There are around 3000 types of bread now. Tornados are not that common. Most often they aren't very strong.

Greetings from Germany 🙋‍♂🍻

im german and 40 years old and i live here since im born... i never saw a real kind of tornado in Germany ;)

As a German I have to say that this summary is amazing! Like it, with one exception... Imho it is not weird to be not patriotic... A little bit more self reflection would be good for a lot of of people in other countries... Like Japan (what they did in china), or turkey (yes it was ethnic cleansing), or the huuuuge pile of bullshit the US did in the last 70 years with 100000s of innocent victims IRAN, IRAQ, LAOS,.......

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. Oversimplified: Rejects Roman annexation - Teutons defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them Create an empire that wasn't really an empire but somehow lived for 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. defeat the French, unites into a new empire Get a colonial empire Fight Europe alone and almost won.. Is treated badly Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world again 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, of course.. Are they lucky that we exist - 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 (general) - The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - Calculator (Konrad Zuse 1941) - First 3D film (during the Nazi period) - Fanta (Yes the Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US buys thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) Well, as you saw, we changed world with our inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German thinkers art. Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it is known. 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, primarily the USA, 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 German 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. 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 create 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.

Although there are quite some mistakes, especially spelling mistakes, I really like that GeographyNow video.

It was pretty accurate beside the "Tornado-Alley". We sometimes suffer a tornado, but this happens very rare. Not as much as in the U.S. 🙂

Recently parts and outtakes of Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" (My Fight) are open to read, and personally I think this is a good idea. Why? Because a friend of my late teenage-years owns the original (handed to him by his grandma) and I read about 100 pages of it. Believe me, it would be great to be published again, because it's only crap. Really, very bad grammer and very often he starts a sentence with one thing, gets lost in thoughts exploding and ends up in something completely different, without finishing the sentence he originally started. A very bed book.

These geography now videos are really entertaining and interesting... But you have to wonder about sources, accuracy and bias? Like anything else I guess, not specifically this. If you accept it as a broadly true information source that requires additional investigation it seems a good starting point...

There are more than 3000 kinds of bread, not 300.

In Germany, history lessons address the 3rd Reich extensively. Hitler's rise to power, the political climate that condoned it, political workings of NS-Germany, everyday life during that time, including the ever-present fear of the GeStaPo (Geheime Staatspolizei; Secret State Police) which was used to sniff out political dissent or people harboring jews. The war itself was addressed less, mainly the turning points at which Germany started losing (Stalingrad, D-Day, etc.), rarely the Nazi's successful battles and strategies to prevent the 'villains' to appear victorious. 'Vergangenheitsbewältigung' (roughly translatable into 'coping with the past') doesn't tell us to feel guilt but rather to take accountability to not let the past repeat itself in the future. A lot of symbols are prohibited in Germany. The Swastika, even if used in religious scenarios (hinduism, buddhism and other religions use it commonly) is just too closely tied to the Nazi 'Blood flag'. Other mentions are the black sun, a pair of wolf's angles (the SS-symbol) and names like Consdaple and Lonsdale on clothes. Wear a Consdaple shirt with an open jacket and you'll get CO/NSDAP/LE, commonly used by Neo-Nazis and Skinheads before it's prohibition

I think. With the flag is for me a open think. Yes I'm German and proud but a want to be seen as an human.

Fun fact, we germans are huge NFL fans 😉🏈

Am I the only one who thinks the modern outline image of Germany always look like a young lads head with a button nose and baseball cap brim pointing upwards???

nicht 300 sorten brot---3000 ist richtig

We have over 3200 types of bread why is the second who talks about 300 types of bread not well researched Our bread culture is registered in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

what a Boring Review!

1st) Nazis --> 1933-1945 = 12 years vs 2000+ years of history ... 2nd) Germany

Adidas and Puma were founded by 2 brothers, basicly out of spite. Adidas = Adolf Dassler (nickname of Adolf is/was Adi, but that name isn't used anymore, due to reasons.) regarding our past, i think the current generations are in a state of acceptance. there are more and more comedys, that make fun of everything that time, and i think that's a step to resolving that guilt. i myself had a grandpa, that fought and became a POW, so it's kind of close to me, but i can laugh about certain general jokes. (who won the first tour de france? the german 4th tank battalion.) it'll take a lot more time to "get over it" and be free of it, but we are making our way. we have football as an outlet for our patriotism. still, i am mature and educated enough to say, that i am proud to be german. while knowing the history and attrocities. but also, what makes us best.

Hi.. Try some german music stuff :"Null positiv - wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer" /or/"Broilers - wie weit".... Or watch :"Conner Sullivan-German culture shocks😁✌️.." enjoy without understanding lyrics

There are no tornados in germany. Really, there are none. And there is no bread incorporated within every meal, mostly just into Frühstück and Abendbrot. Props form Berlin.

He know our frisian history not, there are alot false things which he said 😉

Its true we are alway conflited in germany with this but not japan turkey Uk US that probly are victum many many more its a difrance if you send alot to camp what is so terrible but let them die hidden in undergraound forced to work to death what would have been easyer sent them to camps where they cant find food humans are terrible and we never learned nothing better it will stay so if there is a god I bet he has a a great show

Why should you be proud of something you haven't accomplished yourself?

sadly that video is extremely reductive and not even necessarily that correct about a lot of things.