Dual citizen reacts to 10 things about Germany (responding to @MrLeesClassroom)
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So there's this video with ten facts about Germany; but the question is, are they all true? I decided to subject it to a brief fact-check, because it's the kind of thing I do.
The Tim Traveller's video about the exclaves and the Vennbahn:
• Vennbahn: The World's ...
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00:00 Let's go!
00:17 Escaping prison
00:39 Castles and McDonald's
02:01 Google Street View
02:19 Fanta and Coca-Cola
02:59 The flag's origins
03:25 Five exclaves
03:45 Unexploded bombs
04:10 4th largest economy?
04:34 Taxis are Mercs!
04:48 Saving the daylight
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You are a real German. Correcting other people who say anything about Germany on the Internet has become a "Volkssport", as we call it here.
As we can see in the comment section of every single video that has the word "german" in the title.
That must be something we Brits have in common with you then. We love correcting people about our country (especially when it devolves into the 4 individual nations), but it can get quite aggressive.
@@metalswifty23 If you think that's 'aggressive' you never argued with the 52% quitterati lot (and what I call the 'entitled rejoinerati' lot) about their ignorance or even blatant lies about the EU in general and UK's extremely meagre chances of (re-)joining any time earlier than 40-50 years 😎. A pastime I can only recommend for entertainment purposes.
@@metalswifty23 I see a lot of Brits making fun of Americans for using the imperial measurement system, even though you guys use it too sometimes
@@bananenmusli2769 They're likely youngsters, as they're the ones who have actually grown up using metric predominantly. Anyone from millennial or older really shouldn't be, as we've primarily used imperial in personal usage.
The thing that's funny, is that the US doesn't even use the imperial system. Americans have their own system (US customary units) that was derived from old English units, just as our imperial system was also derived from it. They just happened to bear many similarities, but also have some differences, like our tonne (or ton) vs the US tonne (2,240lbs to 2,000lbs), or a UK gallon (4.54l) vs US gallon (3.785l).
The Street View debate was absolutely hysterical. Some people even believed Google would provide 24/7 live coverage of every street in Germany.
My favourite were the people posing with faces and names in front of their houses for a newspaper that was published online.
They were the faces of data protection and privacy at that time.
Unexploded bombs: It's funny when you grew up in Germany and it's normal to you, that every other week somewhere in your city or nearby they are defusing a Blindgänger. I never thought of this (and never heard of an accident) and then talked to a coworker from the US about having to take another train, because they are defusing a bomb. His reaction was very eye-opening to me, that this isn't normal everywhere in the world...
There have been a few bad accidents. In 2010, a 500 kg bomb exploded in Göttingen when an attempt was made to defuse it. Three people died. In 2008 a 250kg bomb eploded in Hattingen during dredging. 17 people were injured.
@@real_doombasticJust a year ago, a digger hit an unexploded bomb for the 2nd S-Bahn-Tunnel in Munich.
The bomb thing is so true! Recently, two bombs were found almost next to each other in Heidelberg in the span of one week! This must surely have been an awesome time if you live in the Bahnstadt. And as the main railway station was always located within the evacuation radius, basically all train and tram services had to be cancelled.
ah yeah the sun: czcams.com/video/RH27zrK3iFw/video.html we get all the interesting photos from britan to find them...
Ah yes... the bombs.
They say, if god wants to punish you, they let you build a house in Regensburg. Either you dig up a bomb - or worse - a Roman ruin.
Anywhere there has been war there is unexploded ordnance. There are places in France where it is forbidden to go because of all the ordnance might go off from wwi.
@@stroke_of_luck Indeed. My nation Netherlands contains considerable amounts of unexploded ordnance from WWII. Nowhere near Germany, but enough that the Army Bomb Squad has daily work in removing and destroying finds. I've seen videos about the French WWI battlefields. The numbers of unexploded shells that are found in the fields are staggering.
I lived in Kiel for a few years and there were multiple occasions when university classes were cancelled because they've found yet another bomb from WWII close by. There were even occasions when bombs were found in the Kiel Fjord and had to be removed by controlled explosions. They find a new bomb every 3 months on average in Kiel.
About "Schloss" and "Burg", a lot of the smaller ones might just be mansions or former "Rittergüter" (knightly estate) upgraded a bit. At some point, any freshly ennobled person got their house upgraded to a "Schloss" or at least decorated them like such.
I come from a town that had up to five "castles" on its current ground, and only one of them had actual defensive structures dating back from medieval times.
Re unexploded boms: Only a short while ago, an area close to my home was evacuated when one or two almost ridiculously small bombs had been found at a construction site, and they had been deemed too unsafe to disarm, so they were detonated on site in a controlled manner.
Still felt the floor tremble about half a km away.
Turns out there's no such thing as ridiculously small when it comes to bombs. Gives a bit of perspective to what people must have gone through during WW2. Or what they are going through right now in Ukraine.
In Sweden we have Slott and borg, which are simliar to Schloss and burg
Those are pretty much the same words, just in different languages.
About prison escape:
I think the most common case is when a detainee doesn't come back from Freigang (parole?). Or an inmate suddenly jumps out of a window (happens surprisingly often in the courthouse). It has also been relatively common for a feigned love affair with a servant to be offered an opportunity to escape. As far as I know these cases are always punishable in the USA, but in Germany this is not punishable because the only "offence" is escaping from prison.
You'd still have to finish the sentence when caught though.
I think the most important thing to keep in mind is that most prisoners are released way before their nominal sentence is over. While not technically illegal, an escape obviously doesn't exactly fall under good behaviour, so it tends to lead to prisoners having to serve the full time, with no privileges such as day release, until the very end of their nominal sentence. At least that's what I have previously heard in this context, and it makes a lot of sense.
"Freigang" isn't parole. Parole is when the remainder of of sentence is suspended (Aussetzung der Reststrafe zur Bewährung). You then don't have to return to prison, as long as your parole isn't revoked because you committed another crime or violated your parole terms in some other way.
"Freigang" is when you are allowed to temporarily leave prison while you are still under sentence. You may be allowed to leave prison for work and come back every evening, or you may get a furlough of sorts from your sentence of several days. Failing to return from" Freigang" isn't punishable per se, but when you are caught after failing to report back, it may reduce your chances to get your sentence suspended early (and it certainly will mean that you won't get Freigang any more for the foreseeable future).
If you somehow manage to just walk out of prison. All fine.
But avoid falsifying documents, bribing guards, punching guards, cutting bars, etc.
And even if you manage to stay clear of commuting any additional crimes, you can still end up violating the rules of the prison and could get your TV taken away.
Yes. The act of escaping isnt a crime offence. You are already in prison and it is very naturally you want to be free again.
All other illegal acts you did during escaping are crime offences.
Well actually, Germany 🇩🇪 has 6 exclaves. 5 within Belgium, like the Tim Traveller has shown, and one within Switzerland 🇨🇭, also explained by the same Tim Traveller!
And Austria has one in Germany. And then there's the whole Bodensee-mess. Where literally nobody knows where the exact border between Austria, Switzerland and Germany goes.
Really, our border is a beautiful mess. And why beautiful? Because we live in peace with all our neighbors, to a degree, where nobody gives a f*** about where exactly the line is drawn. Doesn't matter. You can cross them without any hassle anyways. And that is nothing short of amazing.
@@robertnett9793, well actually... 🤣
Jungholz is just a functional enclave.
The fact was that there are five exclaves in Belgium.
@@Quark0611 Well, indeed. But also actually - you can hardly deny that big honking mountain, that is in the way...
@@robertnett9793 Jungholz in Tirol is just a factual exclave. It touches Austrian proper in one point.
About the bombs: i'm from Cologne and here they find around 2000 bombs per year. You have to imagine that the Allied dropped 1.5 Million Bombs on the city and if only 10% of them did not explode that would mean that there were around 150,000 unexploded bombs in Cologne (and some experts say that its more likely that 20% of the dropped bombs did not explode). There is even a saying in Cologne that says "if you want to find a bomb then simply dig a 2 meter deep hole and the chances are very high that you find one".
It's the same with Dortmund (and basically all of the Ruhrgebiet).
As someone from the area (though these days on the Schäl Sick) I can confirm that. If you want to find bombs or Roman artifacts, just get a spade.
Shoutout to The Tim Traveller...love that guy.
I love the overdramatic drone shot of the Schloss/Burg bit :P
I'm quite pleased you thought it was a drone shot. It makes all the effort I put into it well worth while.
@@rewboss Jupp, Danke fürs rausgehen um Schlösser und Burgen, nur für dieses Video, einzufangen. Hatte ehrlich gesagt noch auf einen Drohnen "Ruinenshot" gewartet.
He had his feet firmly grounded... but it was a nice dramatic effect for sure.
I saw the shorts too and thought to myself "Oh, that was very superficial, surely someone will post a reaction to that soon." ... BAAM! 😂
About the bombs. My dad was a railway infrastructure engineer (or more simply cause I don't know how to correctly translate it. One of the people who work at the construction and planning for railway tracks) They were just installing a control cable beside a high speed track and suddenly hit something very hard that you could not dig out with a standart digger. Later it turned out there were many bombs just meters away from them (This was the Frankfurt-Montabaur line)
Railway infrastructure engineer is a reasonable translation. In California I knew someone who did just that who called himself a railroad engineer. He would then have to explain that he didn't mean he drove engines.
I remember talking to cabbies when I needed to take taxis relatively often some years ago, and what they told me is that Mercedes isn't that expensive considering they're very reliable, last for long time, their spare parts are easy to get/find and as you said Rew, they can take a lot of beating before they give up. And they're super comfy inside. They told me that they rather pay more upfront and have the car running for a long time, than paying less and then having to change every so often or finding themselves stuck because some parts are difficult to get or too pricey (or both). Time the car spends in a workshop or at home is time the cabbie is not making money, so the more reliable and easy to repair the better.
plus the car is made in Germany and the company likes to preserve the good image that comes with being a ubiquitious taxi automobile so it tends to make special offers for this kind of use
To the first one: Well there was this one guy, who climbed out of the toilet near the atorneys bureau in the Regensburg courthouse. Was in for murder, but to my knowledge didn't destroy anything (for some odd reason the windows in this part of the courthouse aren't barred. He was caught 4 or 5 days later on the French border, though. This was just two weeks ago...
There were a lot of questions about that one, such as why the windows weren't secured. But I understand he gained access to restricted parts of the building, which may be trespass.
@@rewboss Hm... Probably. While living near Regensburg, I just know the story from the newspaper. So I didn't get all details.
Another interesting fact: In Hessen the death penalty was basically only abolished in the past few years officially, it was still part of the Hessian constitution, but of course as the federal law goes above the law of the states and so this law was obsolete, but eird to think there was still a paragraph on that in there so recently
und dann gibt's ja noch Schloss Burg in Solingen. Verwirrt mich bis heute
Wenn ich raten müsste: es ist ein Schloss mit dem Namen "Burg". Dabei ist "Burg" in diesem Fall das Ergebnis von Jahrhunderten sprachlicher Veränderung, wurde früher anders geschrieben, war vielleicht nur ein Teil eines längeren Namens etc. Ich müsste mich mal schlau machen. Vielleicht steht ja auf Wikipedia was.
Burg eventuell eine Abwandlung von Berg? Gab vielleicht ein Bergschloss und ein Wasserschloss in der Gegend, und zum besser auseinanderhalten wurde dann was gedreht.
Schloss Burg wurde erst im 19. Jahrhundert erbaut - und zwar im damaligen Städtchen Burg an der Wupper, das erst bei der kommunalen Gebietsreform von 1975 Teil der Stadt Solingen wurde. Der Ortsname Burg kommt seinerseits von der ursprünglichen mittelalterlichen Burg, die hier seit dem 12. Jahrhundert stand und die Stammburg der Grafen und später Herzöge von Berg war - Düsseldorf wurde erst 1380 deren Residenz. Diese mittelalterliche Burg wurde dann im Dreißigjährigen Krieg zerstört und was blieb, war der Ortsname und ein paar Ruinenreste - bis im 19. Jahrhundert dann die Romantik daraus eine Art Phantasie-Schloss machte.
Etwas kompliziert die Geschichte, aber in sich logisch, wenn man sie nachliest.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Könnte sein, aber aus anderen Gründen. Das Bergische Land hat seinen Namen wohl von einem entsprechenden Adelsgeschlecht.
@@dorderre Ich tendiere da eher zu einer einfacheren Lösung: Es gab eine Burg ohne Namen. Wenn die Leute da was in der Nähe beschreiben wollten, war es eben "bei der Burg". Irgendwann bürgerte sich das als Namen ein und in einer Zeit in der zwischen "Burg" und "Schloss" noch kein Unterschied gemacht wurde, war es dann auf einmal das Schloss "Burg"
About the bombs: There's been a lot of new building going on around my area and every time a new building is constructed they first close down the area to look for so called Blindgänger (bombs that didn't explode), and lo and behold, sometimes they need to be detonated as this is much safer than trying to disarm them.
This was pretty satisfying to watch
What does that even mean?
@@martinc.720 I enjoyed how he fact-checked all the statements and it became clear that the original video wasn't as informative as it seemed. I like correct infos hence why it's satisfying to me and at least 9 other people.
@@paulchenpanther0815 i personally enjoy all of the "ackshuallys"
@@ramr7051 understandable :D
he basically buttfukced him virtually
Wow great improvements on your videos! How do you do all that on your own? Research from facts, filming, editing, scripting, adding subtitles...
Suggestion for a video: 1 - warum finden wir Badewanne in Deutschlands Wohnungen und die shower boxes are so small?
2 - wie ist die Lebensqualität von Rentner ? Kann man mit Rentenversicherung erleben?
3 - warum braucht man ein Makler, wenn er oder sie eine gute Wohnung finden wollen?
4 - letzte Woche war ich bei der freiwilligen Feuerwehr zu besuchen
Gibt es freiwillig Feuerwehr in England?
5 - ich wollte zur Arbeit Fahrrad fahren, ich wohne 15 km von meiner Arbeit. Aber es gefällt mir schnell zu fahren, nicht nur langsam gehen, und mein Arbeitsplatz hat keine dusche
Nicht viele Arbeitsplätze haben Duschen in deutschland , glaube ich.
Tut mir leid, für die Fehler, es ist 2 Uhr ich kann kaum schlafen
Ich gucke deine Videos
Schönen Tag noch
In Solingen there is a castle called Schloss Burg
Spot on, as usual. I like the concept of fact-checking because it brings out the facts rather than the misconceptions.
Wait wait wait wait wait.
Rewboss, can you tell us some more about the Burg that is a court house?
I lived in Berlin for slightly over a year for work, so this upload is especially of interest to me! Great share🎉
As always, love your videos ✌️
One of my favourite lines of a very famous adaptation is: "How do you like the house, Lizzy?" - "I like it very well indeed." (PnP1995)
Mercedes taxis in Germany is about as weird as having Buick or Lincoln taxis in the States. Maybe a bit high end, but perfectly reasonable.
Bahaha, i was thinkin while the weird border crossings were mentioned that i vaguely remembered this but wasnt sure where from. Clicked on Tim's link in the dooblydoo (after watchin your vid ofc) and saw id alrdy liked the vid xD So im guessin i learned this fact around three yrs ago heh. Now to relearn it again lol
Wasn't Mercedes the typical brand for taxis back when Mercedes was the only manufacturer to build a range of diesel cars?
In the 1980s and 1990s, Daimler provided about 80-90% of the taxi cars.
Today I see a lot of VW Touran, VW Bus and I think Daimler no longer has the majority
@@Andreas-du7eg and Opel Zafira
Mercedes Benz offer attractive leasing deals to potential users (both owner-drivers and taxi companies) including servicing and conversion to a taxi.
No longer the case, but back in the '80s most taxis in the UK were Volvos. Same reason: large and comfortable.
Anmerkung zur Sommerzeit: Goethe beschreibt in seiner "Italienischen Reise" die in Süditalien herrschende Sommerzeit sehr ausführlich, sie ist also nicht von den Deutschen "erfunden" worden. In Süditalien war das früher - ohne Kunstlicht - auch sinnvoll, wird es dort doch, durch die relative "Nähe" zum Äquator, früher dunkel als sontwo in Europa. Ansonsten: wie immer ein sehr unterhaltsamer Beitrag!
I cant belive that you show Alzenau and Michelbach. I lived there as a child from 1972-1979. I like your videos VERY much. Have a good 2023!!!!
Oops i forgot to ask which kind of teacher this man is. If i see all the mistakes i think he teaches sports.
Gutes Video!
The one time I took a taxi in Germany it was a Prius. One of those 2nd Gen Stationwagons.
There are some uses for the idea of escape. A couple of American news stories show some instances of where escape, also from any other official custody and not just prison, is the only crime following an exoneration for the main charges.
American police law is crazy. Cops can make up anything on the spot, including an offense you supposedly committed - but if you argue and "resist arrest", you can be punished for that, nevermind that the original reason was made up.
I remember a nice hike with a "castle" along the way. We literally didn't find it. Probably there were some leftover stones somewhere in the bushes, but while it was marked on the map, there just was absolutely nothing visible.
Nice views towards the surrounding landscape though.
Often times it's literally just the tiny hill you probably didn't even notice you walked up xD
Well, the 'nice views' aspect is plausible. One of the purposes of a castle was to keep watch over the surrounding lands, after all 😉
I've since learned that such castles are called "Burgstall" (Burgställe). Those are castles with remnants that are less than even just "ruins". So it wasn't so much the case that we didn't spot the castle, it's that there wasn't anything to see (apparently the place was identified because the landscape still has some signs of small moat the castle had, but it's not something you'll instantly realize in a forest ^^; ).
@@_SpamMe That makes sense. There are quite a number of sites,, mentioned in numerous literaty sources as large and significant, of which modern scholars can only say: "We never found any remains. We're quite certain they actually existed, were not pure myths. But we don't know where they were actually located, best we can do is say they were probably near modern day X...."
Yeah, my home town had a "Jagdschloss", a hunting lodge basically. With signs pointing in the woods to its location and all. It was a single wall .
Nice to see that Aschaffenburger Stadtschloss gets some screentime. Also Michelbacher Schlösschen, Alzenauer Burg and Schöllkrippener Amtschloss. Nice!
Although I would think of it as nitpickinbg between those buildings nowadays and the english word for castle as more of an (faulty) generalization of the english language in comparison to the german language which has all those fancy words for castle: Schloss, Burg, Schlösschen, Jagdschloss, Kastell ...
The Schöllkrippener Schloss was at one point in time in fact a fortified building (with tower, moat and walls) which was later remodeled/reduced to the more civil way it looks today.
The same is true for the other Schlösser in the video. And they are more than 700 years old... alas renovated and remodeled many times over to fit the needs of their current owner.
IMO they would qualify in the meaning of castle as not every castle has to look like Neuschwanstein... ;) But that may be up to debate.
Other than that a really nice video. :)
It's important to correct people who are wrong on the internet.
Well, you're in for a lifetime job then.
@@soundscape26 As long as it pays well, I think I could handle it.
I do love some expert pedantry and fact checking!
I recognize the "Town Hall" Schloss in Schöllkrippen, in the town I grew up. I got married in this building my first time.
"Most of the German taxis are made by Mercedes-Benz"
Andrew: "And I took that personally"
Château has also a double meaning in French. There are the "Royal/seigneurial house", (which is "chateau" or "palace", so "scholss"?) and "chateau fort" which is the feodal fortified place ("burg"?).
About street view. Datenschutz was very important for me back then and I sent a mail to Google to better not post me. Part of a campaign of THE it-journal back then. It was not just “public opinion” but also many people with a “legal insurance” planning to sue.
I changed. I love geoguessr and miss streetview. (Just use apple maps. Aerial image from bing also is better)
Thank you.
I had to scroll back to 2:16 "Wait, was that Kassel? - It is! - Wait, there is apple-street-view in Kassel?" XD wieder was gelernt ;)
I think the fact that street view isn’t widely available is a good thing and not just a pointless public student - GDPR for example is a great step for privacy and has pushed places like California to adopt the same
and as a cyber security person, google caused quite a few security issues with maps, i.e they basically recorded the locations of most routers and their Mac addresses (a sort of name for every Internet capable device that is used for local connections like your phone to your internet box or pc to it etc). This led to security leaks and issues where it became easier to identify someone and where they lived by getting their Mac address.
Another fine, albeit German video!
About Taxis: Back in the day, getting a taxi was luxury, so the cars better be luxurious. Also, Mercedes were dominant (or even exclusive) in Diesel passenger cars, keeping the running costs low. Last but not least, they had a well-earned reputation of longevity due to their exaggerated construction safety factors. A short search finds mileages of 1.3 Million km on a German taxi, and 4.6 M km on a Greek one! Imagine my shock when my first 190 D failed after only 100,000 km!
The thing with Google maps was the same in austria: Google had to provide evidence that licence plates of cars, peoples faces and similar stuff will be made unrecognizable for google themselves and the viewer and that under no circumstances these changes can be reversed. Until they could provide all that, Street view cars were banned from recording here too.
It has to do with privacy and data privacy. (and i would not be surprised if it became an EU matter at some point). As google seemingly was able to provide these things to the data safety commision in austria at some point, there are Street View pictures available now. (although not in the same coverage as in other places around the world.)
As germany is bigger, if they started at the same time, it would appear on a map like the guy showed that more of a smaller country was covered.
And lastely: i don't *blame* anyone for daylight saving time changes, i am one of those who find them still a good idea.
In fact it wasn't the same: in Germany, the mass media whipped up a hysteria about how Street View was a mass invasion of privacy and would be used by criminals to plan their burglaries. An embarrassingly large number of people genuinely believed that Street View would be a constantly updated live feed of every house in Germany. As a result so many homeowners applied to have their properties blurred out and there was so much negative publicity that Google eventually gave up.
More recently some new images have been added to Street View, apparently by third parties, but most of the images there haven't been updated since 2008.
@@rewboss Interesting! i would not have thought that the germans were easier to convince of such a thing than "we". (we have quite a lot of naive people here too).
Or that we would "out-bureaucrat" (?) them for once. 😉
Although i think the reasoning of our data security (i wrongly wrote safety but there's a distinction) comission was a good one.
#1 is not only tecnically true. If you escape from a prison in Germany without hurting a human being you cannot be procecuted, even if you dammage public property. (I have studied laws and my friend was working in a prison - on the good of the bars by the way.)
Thank you for doing the dirty work. I really hate those lazy videos where it's obvious the creator knows nothing about the topic and simply cobbled together some factoids from the web, without checking the veracity of the the content. They don't care, it's all just clickbait. And it works. It wouldn't bother me except they always perpetuate common popular misconceptions. And they often have a LOT of views and comments.
Taxi companies used to benefit from a special Mercedes-Benz Taxi package. However, this package was ended by Daimler recently (because they want to concentrate on producing luxury cars only), and so the percentage of Mercedes Taxis will certainly go down (after having receded for many years anyway)
Really? I don't think so. Mercedes will just remove the B class and E class from the Taxi portfolio (they already removed the C class). The van-type Mercedes will remain in the Taxi Portfolio. I.e. all future Mercedes taxis will be boxy and not saloons.
in NRW bombs getting defused its normal
Normal to have entire neighbourhoods evacuated, railway lines taken out of service for weeks, roads closed, etc. Sometimes defusing is impossible even for the seasoned experts, then sand is poured on the object and it is blown up with a booster detonation. Some insurances will cover the subsequent damages to nearby buildings, others will call it an uninsured war damage and are done with it.
I once had a customer from Italy on the phone and had to tell him that we could not send the goods today because the warehouse had been evacuated due to a bomb find and he was totally shocked. It was the first time that I realised that this is nothing 'normal'.
Selbst die kleinste Schlossruine in Deutschland hat mehr Charme als alle McDonalds-Restaurants der Welt zusammen.
It was unfortunate that you described McDonalds as restaurants. That is a very generous definition of restaurants.
Im Schlösschen kann auch geheiratet werden!
Thanks for saving us from all the world's ire regarding daylight savings time ;)
Don't forget about the "German" Christmas pickel
And the German chocolate cake.
Is that a "Pickelhaube" worn exclusively at Christmas?
@@dorderre Or the pickel you get after eating all that heavy food.
I haven't a clue why Americans think a "Schloß" is some kind of castle. All the buildings I know under this category look more like stately homes. A "Burg" on the other hand does tend to be a fortified edifice, in other words a castle.
Daylight savingS? I'm afraid we'll have to ask you to hand in your pedant card.
Except the pedantry on this point is moot, as most people call it "daylight savingS".
oh you're in Aschebersch!
Technically we have three words for castle, there's also "Palast" which is like the similarity to "palace" already indicates an especially fancy Schloss while a Schloss was still a bit more of a defensive structure. Long story short: There are also Paläste and Schlösser are an inbetween thing of Burgen and Palästen
How about "Herrenhaus"? Nowadays it is a big mess. The real difference between "Burg" und "Schloss" is, if there is any real fortification or not. Many places started as castles and have been turned into palaces later.
But there is a lot of mess in naming stately homes in Britain too. There you can find manor houses that are still called "abbey" even if the use as a monastary has ended with the dissolution under Henry VIII and the buildings have been built completely new after afterwards, that's very uncommon in Germany.
"Palast" is never translated as "castle", but as "palace".
Schloss simply was a descriptive title for a residence of an aristocrat / ruler / highborn, it has nothing to do with how defensive it is ... the type and layout of the building just isnt relevant for that term.
Hence buildings ranging from fortresses, palaces, castles, tower houses, hunting lodges, mansions down to simpler houses being called Schloss all across german lands. Technicly even a barn could have become a Schloss, if a lord/aristocrat of appropriate standing made it his residence and insisted upon the term.
Similar with Herrenhaus, which simply was a term used to describe the residence of a lower born noble ... especially in certain (mostly northern) regions were the term Schloss was used more restrictive as in just for the residences of actual rulers.
I like the fact-checking. Thanks for that, Andrew!
I dont really agree to describing some of the "Schlösser" as just being "stately homes". A "Schloss" to be correctly denominated this way, needs to have a clear, historical connection to members of the nobility. A consequence of this is that there are no "Schlösser" built after the first world war. Any official statistic (counting) will have to consider this.
This is how to do a reaction video, rather than how you attempted to do the one of the Foil, Arms and Hog German immigration sketch
Whilst I would agree that a huge percentage of what are termed Schloß or Burg in Germany would, in some cases kindly be called stately homes or even manors - although there's the term Gutshof as well, I've always translated Burg as castle and Schloß more as palace. And yes, palace is definitely stretching it for a lot of said buildings.
fun fact about the mercedes taxis. you could also say: most taxis are mercedes yet. Most taxi drivers won't be able to afford MB in the future. As the company dropped their taxi program, focusing more on luxury cars for China and the middle east...There's an interesting documentary about that: czcams.com/video/A6HZNo2cFVQ/video.html
Bombs found, definitely true. Often hear about bombs being found in Cologne and sometimes the population in the neighborhood has to be evacuated while the bomb is defused or detonated. Basically, for the Belgium story, it is about the territory under a railway line, the Vennbahn that is owned by Belgium. Since we are all Europeans and in Schengen area this isn't a problem.
We are at fault for Fahrenheit to exist, but at least we were honest enough to admit it was a super stupid system and reverted back to Celsius.
To be fair, for what it was intended it does a decent job.
4:42 There's a reason almost all cars in Albania are Mercedes-Benz. Not just that but it is important.
Used german taxis having a second life?
Escaping from prison is not a punishable offense in Germany, but helping someone to escape is. The German term for the latter is Gefangenenbefreiung.
Is there an underground service being provided to young men at Oktoberfest?
You mean an illegal organisation that sells alcohol to underage dudes?
The link to Mr Lee's channel does not work (for me). Shouldn't that be czcams.com/users/MrLeesClassroom ?
TIL that there is a Apple Look Around. Perhaps there was no voice against it, because probably nobody knew that they were making photos. 🤔
The interesting thing about Street View is that most, if not all, of the major German cities are covered, it's the rural areas that are not. So I wonder what's the rationale behind this and why they could collect images in cities (where most people live after all) but not in towns and rural roads/autobahns where nobody lives.
A few reasons, probably. One, Google started in the cities, so they simple had that material already. Two, people in cities are generally more open to technology, so they had less reason to complain in the first place. And three, because a crowd makes you feel anonymous. They are just photographing an apartment building with hundreds of apartments. Maybe one of them is yours, but so what? Hundreds of people walk by every day already. Meanwhile in rural areas it's your house, your garden, your street ... they felt more personally photographed, so to speak.
In the end it was all quite silly.
@@_SpamMe Google has already all the photographs even from the countryside and small villages. I was photographed on the street in one smaller city probably 3 or 4 times. And I saw the Google Maps car driving in front of our house. While in a city at the height of the camera there are mostly shop windows, the camera that drove by our house looked directly through our window into our living room. I just wonder if you can see through the windows in residence areas in other countries or how Apple solved the problem. Because I believe Apple couldn’t do it without permission at least from the city or community they were photographing.
@@Al69BfR I know that there are a bunch of blurred houses on street view. Perhaps apple did something similar.
@@_SpamMe All valid reasons yes. There-s a whole spectrum of areas to cover between apartment buildings and houses (nevermind the fact that there are houses in cities too) that should have given the Street View guys a headache when deciding what to cover and what not to. Back when it was first launched Street View looked rather nosy to some people but almost 15 years after its initial release it has become ubiquitous and I wouldn't be surprised if Germany ends up with full coverage sooner or later.
It's daylight saving, not savings. It's not a bank.
That's how native English speakers speak.
@@KaleunMaender77... if they don't know any better. After all, the DST term was coined by English native speakers.
@@brekibreki yes, and the colloquial, vulgar vernacular of everyday native English-speakers for the formal term "daylight saving time" is, to the detriment and chagrin of your prescriptivism, "daylight savingS".
@@KaleunMaender77you are aware that you are commenting on my nitpicking on a channel of a CZcamsr well versed in nitpicking himself
@@brekibreki you are aware that even this particular nitpicker doesn't pick every nit there is to pick, and that his pedantry only goes as far as information that makes a huge difference, not something as inconsequential, as trivial, as unimportant, as whether the term in English should be "daylight saving" or "daylight savingS", right?
The Hessians love to boast anyway. Here are a lot of buildings I would call Burg, but they are called Schloss. 😊 . But they look like a Burg with walls , towers, all that! 😊
Escaping from prison not being a crime in Germany is still quite remarkable, though. In my experience, even many Germans don't know this.
Meh, same thing's true in my nation, Netherlands.
Don't get SLOSHED, when talking about palaces and castles 😁😁😁
There are more castles in England. My home is my castles. How many homes are there in England?
Mercedes Benz has canceled its support for taxi drivers. They no longer get preferential credit and the prices have been raised. It can be assumed that the next generation of vehicles would no longer come from Mercedes.
Quality of Mercedes cars decreased while other manufacturer's cars increased in quality.
About prices it is vice versa.
@@Andreas-du7eg There are car companies which lowered the prices?
@@5thElem3nt I've seen Dacia taxis already. And why not?
Why is east Germany very German while west Germany is very diverse
My dear, you ARE a pedant! 😁😂😁🤣😜😆☺️
The point about Schloss and Burg was well put, though. Here in Vaihingen we have a Burg, which is called "Schloss Kaltenstein" - even the Germans don't always know which is which.
Well, a "Schloss" is a building for representation (aka "showing off"), while a "Burg" serves military purposes, in particular has a well defendable wall (which is also why in Scotland a "burgh" is historically a community with city walls). A building can totally have both functions at the same time and Schloss Kaltenstein most certainly did. (Well, by the time it was renamed into a "Schloss", the military purpose of its walls was starting to lose importance anyway)
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"so let's not put all the blame on the Germans" sounds horrible out of context
You missed the obvious fact checking from the title. " ... you didn't know about Germany". This has absolutly no proof.
Ich würd in englisch auch eher palace und fortress b nutzen das passt besser.
Αre foreigners allowed to buy cars in Germany ? What are the best websites ? looking for a camper type vehicle !! Better for travelling than UK as it has two years on the TUV ? UK only has one year .
I'm pretty sure buying them is not the problem.
It will be the registration process that becomes the interesting part, as you are not allowed to drive it around without insurance and a proper number plate…
Could be its own topic for a video.
Sure you can buy any Car.
You max obtain an Exportkennzeichen If you are leaving Germany within two weeks or have a regular German numberplate. In the latter case you have to provide a German address ( where your Traffic Tickets will be send).
@@Andreas-du7eg l've heard people make money buying in Germany then taking them to lceland to sell ! Because cars are very much more expensive in lceland . ..A profit can be made - flying back to Germany then buy another, then repeat !
@@Sam_Green____4114 Shipping a car from Germany to Island doesn't exactly sound cheap, though.
@@Andreas-du7eg pretty sure a registered address (ID card, or registration card with a foreign passport) is mandatory to register a car
getting some of these 10 things not quite right is understandable but the claim about the colours in the national flag is blatantly absurd. how could that teacher get it so wrong? the HRE was gone by 1806 and when all that mooing over Germany being so disunited started past the Napoleonic wars there was no great appetite of reviving a collection of small states but uniting all those who spoke German under one banner (Hambach 1832) - it was a movement _against_ the conservative order.
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whats with the screams at the end 😂
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I hate daylight savings.
Everyone does. Well, everyone sane.
would you like daylight wastings better?
People complain for a day and then forget about it for 6 months.
@@soundscape26 first sunday of March daylight savings begins and November it ends and then begins again. I hate it but i have my work schedule and sleep schedule in a way that im not affected in the slightest. Im remember daylight savings and i will hate it to the day i die.
@@ppd3bw yes yes yes. Hell yes.
Great thumbnail, but total fail as a reaction video. You're supposed to look at the video in realtime and go "oh!, wow! really? amazing!" and then end with "like, comment and subscribe!".
Me? Follow the crowd? Perish the thought!
So you want all the videos you watch to be the same?
@@rewboss My brain instantly imagined thot instd of thought and had a laugh about a potential meme there of a sexy woman perishin when someone says that phrase unrelatedly xD
@@martinc.720 wooosh
Most of the reaction videos are from people who know little to nothing of the subject. So the fun is more in what they don't know. Here we have the exact opposite. A British who knows more about Germany than most Germans 🙂.
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What do you mean 'blamed'? Daylight saving time is great!
Amateur astronomers: "No!"
Is there any real support in German to reclaim the eastern territory's lost after the two world wars?
Nope, not really. At least no political will to do so. It was a condition for allowing the reunification of Germany in 1990 that it forfeit/abandon (not sure which term's correct here) the parts east of the rivers Oder and Neiße.
There was some in the 1960s, but at least since the Neue Ostpolitik the only ones still making any claims are Reichsbürger and similar fringe groups.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Thank you
Not possible, the case is legally closed between Germany and Poland, and yes, this includes the end of paying reperations!
@@JoergSi .... the latter some Polish 'politicians' from the far right/populist fringe tend to forget once in a while when they come up with this old chestnut again.
fact: germany has more castles than there are trees on earth
could u make a video about germans having no humor? content: we like to dup everything, so there is no broad wide spread english comedy scene and we like to make a difference between comedy and kabarett for example: czcams.com/video/G-xwxh0PSjs/video.html
The Austrians (allegedly, they speak German) pronounce "Kabarett" like "Cabaret", you know, pretty dancers at the Moulin Rouge or such.
@@eisikater1584 Yeah es ist Kabarett und nicht Cabaret; Letzteres findet im Moulin Rouge statt.
He has several videos on that topic
0:10 Na und? ABK ist auch ein Lehrer. Just saying~
Shame they're found...They should be left to age gracefully ...or suddenly !!! 😄
The Thumbnail is either stupid or a very nice parody.
Obviously the 2nd option.