American Reacts 101 Facts About Germany
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Thing is, that original 'disney' castle in germany, isn't exactly old. It was built starting 1869 and opened in 1886. In terms of europe, its basically modern
True but there are castles that go back to the 15th century, churches that go back to the 4th century (Trier under Roman control), fortresses that go back till the 10th century, bronze age museums and Hügelgraves that go back to 4000 BC and the street of the megalitculture that goes back till 7000th BC(at least)
The house of my family was build 1568...
Long German words aren’t that difficult if you know where the separation in the word is..
in this Video, it’s done exactly wrong!
Exactly! Even as a German, reading it separated like that was hard.
he spoke every german word wrong
"was mozart british" a part of me died right there..
Dude...same Dx
The population has not decreased since the film was made, but has increased to over 83 million.
The capital of West Germany was Bonn, that of East Germany East Berlin.
I don't know why people only talk about 300 types of bread, there are at least 3000.
The GEMA CZcams dispute has been settled, CZcams has to pay profits to artists from Germany.
Mit den 300+ Brotarten: Da werden nur die Hauptarten gezählt, welche dann jeweils in Variationen unterteilt werden (Laugengebäck = Bretzel, Laugenstange, Laugenbrötchen,...) und deswegen nur 300 anstelle der mehr als 3000 Variationen.
the Guy in the video butchered our language, like Hollywood
and you 😭😂
12:20 Nope, never think about it. And if there is an evacuaction issued because of a bomb difusing, nearly all people i know (myself included) are like "oh, here we go again", shrug and follow instructions (usually the day of evacuation is known days in advance)
Guess it depends on where you live. I live next to Stuttgart and in some forest areas (e.g. Feuerbacher Tal or Vaihingen) you have to be careful. Never touch metall pieces you find there. It's unlikely to be a bomb dropped by the Allies but most likely German ammunition. It might look like a harmless rusty can but it could be the head of a stick grenade.
If the hamburger really was an American invention, like you said, it would probably be called Pittsburgher…
The Hamburger is originally from Hamburg. The German seaman from Hamburg lived later in colony's for example in Texas where they did the first Hamburger example they also called it of the hometown. And what's funny is that mostly all Americans have german ancestors..for example people from England were angel saxtons from Germany before so there basically german xD
@@gravitycorey4635 Let's go even more back in Time. We all are Africans.
@@deinbarenbruder6570 nah Germans we're either born in southern Germany as Gauls and North aswell but Northern Part got inherited with Scandanavian people so Culture got mixed Northern part was called Germania southern idk it was Roman Territory but later Germania took southern modern Germany btw Germania also owned the Netherlands (and most of Modern day Poland aswell) so unlike the Dutch say they aren't German they and Germans have similliar history and we're seen from Holy Roman Empire times as German but after they recognized themselves as Dutch and after the great Migration period Germans became the leaders of the center of Spain and all of France it was called back then Francia which means a kind of German like y'know bavarians different from northern Germany and every German state having their own Culture a kind of German Person named it Francia before France was called France the name was Francia and before Gaul that would mean Germans (or a kind of German) are the true French and Francia later then conquered almost all of Germania that would mean no they are not Africans
@@gravitycorey4635 Well, the Anglo Saxons were Germanic, not German. They didn't come from Germany, because it didn't exist by that time. The difference between Germanic and German is more obvious in German language: "Germanisch" and "Deutsch". It's obvious, Anglos Saxons are not "deutsch" :)
Mozart was German, born in Bavaria (Salzburg became later part of Austria), also he refered to himself as deutsch. The biggest trick Austria ever pulled is making the world think mozart was austrian and Hitler german.
Wikipedia macht es tricky... sie schreiben er ist Salzburger! LOL
"Die Frage der Bürgerschaft bzw. Landsmannschaft des Komponisten wird in der Rezeptionsgeschichte unterschiedlich beantwortet. Salzburg war seit dem späten 14. Jahrhundert Hauptstadt des im Wesentlichen unabhängigen Erzstifts Salzburg, das geistlich dem Heiligen Stuhl in Rom unterstand, weltlich als Teil des bayerischen Reichskreises dem römisch-deutschen Kaiser (zu Mozarts Lebzeiten waren das 1745-1765 Franz I., 1765-1790 Joseph II. und 1790-1792 Leopold II.), nicht aber der „österreichischen“ Habsburgermonarchie. Mozart war im Erzbistum als Untertan der Fürsterzbischöfe geboren und blieb dies sein Leben lang. Die Landeszugehörigkeit Mozarts könnte daher als „(Fürsterzbischöflich-)Salzburg(er)isch“ bezeichnet werden, jedoch ist diese Umschreibung seiner Landsmannschaft weniger verbreitet."
@@AP-RSI Jep, aber wenn man die deutschen Fürstentümer alle als grundsätzlich nicht deutsch ansieht, dann gab es keine deutschen vor 1871. Mozart benannte sich selbst als deutsch, somit sind sowohl der Geburtsort als damalige Nation deutsch als auch seine eigene Einordnung.
Wenn man diese Definition, dass dt Staaten vor 1871 nicht deutsch sind anwendet, so sind Goethe, Schiller, Händel, Bach und co auch nicht deutsch.
@@florianschneider8396 Das ist auch wieder wahr. Dann war er Bayer? 🙂
@@AP-RSI ja, Bayer- oder zu der Zeit nur noch Salzburger? Da es ja ein eigenes Fürstentum war- mit ethnisch bayerischer Bevölkerung? Diese ganze deutsch und HRR-Ding macht's nicht leicht.😅 -aber definitiv kein Österreicher.
Sorry Connor, but I didn’t like the way you were mocking that false bus stops are put outside nursing homes with people with Dementia. If it stops the staff from loosing a resident, I think its a good idea.
My farther has Dementia and Alzheimer’s and its not nice to see someone who you love deteriorate week by week, can’t remember who you are, can’t remember his wife, and so on and so on.
Me too re: dementia except vascular dementia. The bus is actually a great bit of fun for all and no one gets lost or hurt.
The term Berliner for a jam filled donut is only used in some parts of Germany. It is not used in Berlin. I don't think any of the people Kennedy talked to thought he is talking about Donuts.
Yes, the jam filled donut is called Pfannkuchen in Berlin as well as (pretty much) the whole east of Germany. But even people who call it Berliner wouldn't have thought it is a mistake. So that is totally a myth that he made a mistake & also one I was very surprised about that so many americans think that.
@@n_other_1604 Funny, in my region we call them Krepel, while we call what you probably know as Eierkuchen a Pfannkuchen.
@@n_other_1604 Wrong. Pfannkuche refers to pancake. The real word for it would be Kräppel, Kreppel or Krapfen, depending on regional dialect.
@@leurunner4764 I'm a german & I can tell you if you go into a bakery not only in Berlin but basically whole east germany the jam filled donut is called Pfannkuchen!
@@n_other_1604 Strange. I'm a german as well and here we call them Kreppel... And Pfannkuchen refers to a liquid dough poured into a pan and heated until its a flat, solid and golden brown, which often either served alongside other food or rolled up with something inside it it, in a simmilar fashion to the even thinner crépe.
Kräppel/Kreppel/Krapfen howevet consists of a ball or Wad of dough, which is fried and then dusted with sugar and flilled with jam, jelly or peanut butter/nutella
The interesting thing with "Dinner for one" is that it's in English and performed by Freddie Frinton, a British comedian. And this new years tradition isn't even unique to Germany. It's also shown in Sweden, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and more. ... and almost unknown in Britain.
The people in Germany speak "Deutsch" which is closely related to "Dutch" (as English speakers call the language and the people of the Netherlands). Deutsch comes from old thiudisc, a name known since the 8th century meaning 'popular speech' or 'language of the (common) people' (in contrast to Latin, the language of the upper classes at that time). People who speak Deutsch are called "Deutsche" (an ending 'e' is not silent!), and the country they live in is "Deutschland" - das Land der Deutschen. The Romans called all people living at the right bank of the Rhine Germans (even if some of them were ethnic Celts) and so did most scholars of the following centuries. The Franks were a Germanic tribe who first conquered Gaul and then the region which is nowadays known as Germany, consisting at the time of their old land and Saxony to the North of it and the Aleman kingdom to the South of it; after some division of their empire we got West Francia (which is now France) and East Francia (which became first the Holy Roman Empire and then Germany). And because the dukedom of Alemannia was the powerhouse of this Empire, the French called the country Allemagne (as did the Spanish, Portuguese and Turks). The Scandinavians call it Tyskland, the Finns and Estonians Saksa (=Saxony), and many Slavic languages use variations of "Niemcy" (deriving from a word for 'stranger' or 'not speaking (our language)'.
As a German, I have to say I've been eating gummy bears for 50 years and have never had diarrhea from them! Must be an American problem! LOL
And Mozart is German, because at that time Salzburg still belonged to Bavaria and not to Austria ;-)
And the info about bread is totally out of date. There are over 3,000 variations of bread in Germany!
they are talking about sugar free gummybears because they are known for causing diarrhea lol i never seen them in germany tho
@@MyvIsLove2 OK, thanks for the info! I didn't know!
In the US gummi bears are sweetened with corn syrup, maybe thats why.
Salzburg belongs to Austria for a short time because Maria Theresia needed money 😉
True!!
Love Germany and lived there, near the Dutch border for ten years, I'd move back there tomorrow. My wife is German and will not move from rural England! BTW, Neuschwanstein Castle is relatively modern (1869). And, even here in the UK, many still think that Bavaria is typical Germany? It definitely isn't! A bit like saying all of America is like California? Or all England is like bloody London?
I have the same problem with my Danish wife, I'd move to Denmark, but she is adamant that she wants to stay here in England!
@@Dave.Thatcher1 I liked Denmark, lovely people too. Only been to Karup, near Viborg for a week though, with the RAF, back in the late eighties.
The "Capital Question" is a bit complicated. Short answer: The capital of East Germany (the GDR) was East Berlin, the capiral of West Germany (the FRG) was Bonn.
Long answer: Berlin was of course the capital of the German Reich (since 1871), but after the collapse of the Nazi Regime in 1945, the german state de facto seized to exist and the four allied powers occupied it's territory. In 1949, two new german states were formed, the Federal Republic of Germany in the west and the German Democratic Republic in the East. However, Berlin remained an occupied territory, split between the four allies of WW2. Both new states claimed to be the only legitimate german state, much like the two Koreas or the two Chinas today. So both insisted that Berlin was their official/theoretical capital, even though it was controlled by the USA, the UK, France and the USSR.
The GDR was allowed by the Soviets to make East Berlin (=their occupation sector of the city) their capital, but it was still controlled by the Soviets. Meanwhile, the FRG made the city of Bonn its provisional capital until reunification could be achieved. (West Berlin wasn't part of the FRG, so it was not only surrounded by the GDR and East Berlin, but also stuck in some sort of legal limbo, with partial autonomy, but still ruled by the western allies).
In 1970, the Federal Republic recognized the GDR as a STATE, but not as a NATION, since they still insisted that there was only one "Germany as a whole". So there were now two german states, but only one german nation, who's sovereignity was "shared" by the two german states and the allies.
With the signing of the "2+4-Treaty" in 1990, both the territory of the GDR and the still occupied Berlin became part of the Federal Republic and Berlin became the undisputed, undivided capital for real. However, it didn't became the seat of government until 1998. Some ministries are still located in Bonn today.
two Chinas? there are no two chinas*
@@mYmsKy There are, technically, two Chinas. The People's Republic of China and the Republic of China, which since 1948 only controls the island of Taiwan. Most people just call it Taiwan, but this state is the same that replaced the Chinese Empire in 1911 or at least the one that formed the internationally recognized government of China in 1927. In fact, the Republic of China was seen as the legitimate chinese government until the 70's and was a permanent member of the UN security council until it was replaced by the PRC.
@@panther7748 isnt taiwan just an autonomous region of china?
@@mYmsKy Well, that's what the PRC says... (they call them a "rogue province"). The RC/Taiwan has quite a different opinion on this matter and is at least factually independent. But it's not just your typical separatist region like Abkhazia or Transnistria. As I said, the RC is officially identical to the old chinese nationalist government. In the past, they claimed to represent the whole of China, having just "lost control of the mainland". Since the democratization in 1989, policies have shifted towards a more "Taiwan only" approach, but they theoretically still uphold their old claims.
- HARIBO is named after his founder HAns RIegel and the town where he used to life BOnn.
- German is also spoken in northern Italy (Südtirol)
- Paris 106 m² and 2,2 mio residents / Berlin 882 m² and 3,7 mio residents /
- 3 feet ~ 1m
- Richtgeschwindigkeit = recommended speed
- Oktoberfest was meant as a kind of a harvest festival. But at the end it's all about drinking beer. :-)
- At McDonalds in GE it's no prob to order a beer at the drive through
Just my 2 cents. ;-)
18:00 there is no state called west-saxony. Bremen is in "Niedersachsen" wich means something like lower saxony
Yeah, west saxony? What?
No i live in Niedersachsen and Bremen is not in Niedersachsen
@@Theerik4443 its located in the middle and with the context of the video you should have understood that
Actually the bomb thing is never on our mind, most accidents that happen with these bombs happen during construction works, but not in your everyday life if you're not a construction worker.
The absolute majority of detonations are controlled detonations after the bombs have been found
Quadratic shaped pillows can be ..... attention.....folded to get a rectangular shape pillow, take this world!
Pure Genius!
quadratic is fine for a pillow.... your head is not rectangular, is it? Even round would be fine.
3:30 The Matterhorn is in Switzerland; its height is 4478m or 14690 feet. Germany has only a very small part of the High Alps, most of them belong either to Austria or Switzerland. The highest mountain in the Alps is the Mont Blanc between France and Italy (4810 m / 15780 feet)
4:45 The population decline was never so big as depicted here. Germany had a falling birth rate, but at the same time people tended to live longer - so the real problem was not population decline, but population aging. This was the reason why experts recommended a more welcoming immigration policy - it was calculated the German economy needs an immigration rate of at least 250,000 people per year to flourish. Thi s rate was only accomplished in 2015, however.
5:40 Since West Berlin was never officially part of West Germany (but associated with it, and people in West Berlin did vote in national elections), and the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer, hated Prussians, West Germany needed its own capital. The logical solution would have been Frankfurt (being the seat of the federal parliament before Prussia defeated the short-lived German Federation in 1866), but Adenauer persuaded the delegates of the first West German parliament to choose Bonn far in the West of Germany (and near to Adenauer's home). After the reunification the parliament voted for moving the capital to Berlin, but Bonn kept some Federal Departments and the title of "Federal City". Bty the way: the -bo in Haribo stands for Bonn, where Haribo was founded.
9:35 The David Hasselhoff thing is something like an urban myth. He had a very, very modest career as a singer in Germany and a short-time hit in 1989 - and is now largely forgotten.
12:20 Defusing WW II bombs is still a thing. Every week or so some urban district is evacuated while the bomb squads defuse another one (e.g news.in-24.com/news/252210.html). Most are detected in preparation of construction works. Some are found near older parts of the Autobahn also; a few years ago one exploded at a roadwork at route A3 and killed one worker. It was situated under the lane which he prepared for rebuilding. But it is nothing people worry about in their daily routine.
13:20 Mozart was born and worked most of his live in Salzburg, which is now Austria, but was at his time an Imperial prince-bishopric within the Holy Roman Empire (meaning it was its own state within the Empire, but part of the German Kingdom within this Empire, which also included the Bohemian kingdom, while the kingdoms of Italy and Arelat were already lost due to the 30-years war). Mozart died 1791 in Vienna, Austria. 1803 Salzburg became part of Austria by order of Napoleon, who took it away again from Austria in 1810 and gave it to Bavaria. After Napoleon was defeated, it went back to Austria in 1816. Therefore Mozart is counted as Austrian.
16:50 Neuschwanstein is new, as the name says: New Swan Rock . It was built in the 1860s by Bavarian king Ludwig II, and it does not look a single year older. Old castles did not have as much little towers and embellishments.
18:30 This is mostly referring to the history of the Holy Roman Empire. This Empire however did not have an official capital, but only different seats for different institutions. In medieval times the Emperor was continuously travelling through his empire, from one Imperial Palace (known as 'Pfalz') to the other. In his absence each of this palaces and the associated estates, the palatinate, was managed by a Pfalzgraf (palatine count). Aachen was the traditional place of crowning since Charlemagne (Charles the Great). Regensburg became seat of the Reichstag (Perpetual Diet, a parliament of delegates of the nobility, the Imperial cities and the ecclestiacal estates) after the 30-years war in 1663. Frankfurt was the place were most elections of a new king were held; it became the seat of the Federal Assembly or Bundestag of the German Confederation after the defeat of Napoleon and the seat of the first elected parliament, the National Assembly of the 1848 revolution. The Imperial Regalia were stored in Nuremberg since 1423 (if not needed elsewhere and often not during war times). Berlin was the capital of the Prussian kingdom since the end of the Holy Roman Empire and became capital of the new Prussian-led German Empire 1871. After WW II a National Assembly was held in Weimar, and Weimar became for about 6 months in 1919 the governmental seat of the new republic, before the government moved back to Berlin.
21:10 That is objectively wrong and another myth. While there is something similar to a jam donut which is known throughout Germany als 'Berliner Pfannkuchen' or shortly 'Berliner', Berliners will simply say 'Pannekuchen' (pan cake) to it. Nobody in Berlin will misunderstand 'ich bin ein Berliner' as ' I am a donut' - that would simply be ridiculous. If you ask someone from Berlin where he comes from, he'll either say 'Ich bin Berliner' or 'ich bin aus Berlin'. If however Kennedy would have said 'Ich bin Berliner' that would have been a lie because he neither lived there nor was born there. So he said grammatically correct 'Ich bin ein Berliner' which was clearly understood as 'I am one of you' and was the reason why the people cheered.
23:10 The gender rule is abandoned for some years now and was never really taken serious: Some names can be female in the south and male in the north or vice versa. But the registry office will not accept surnames which it considers deprecating or harming the child's welfare - like the place it was sired or a swearword or something similar. 'Adolf' is not banned, but very unpopular.
34:20 Here I'm missing the interesting fact that the blue of the seats in the Bundestag is copyrighted to the Bundestag administration. You are not allowed to use the same shade of blue at any other place.
35:50 Actually the christmas tree tradition originated in the Alsace which is if any rather on-and-off German.
37:50 The Spreuerhofstrasse in Reutlingen is an alley which is only 50 meters long. At its northern end it furcates around three houses attached to another, and it is the smallest of this forks which is only between 31 and 50 centimeters wide. It was built in 1727 during reconstruction efforts after a massive citywide fire and registered as city track No. 77.
38:00 Not to forget the village Killer in the Killer valley.
42:10 That word is a joke. It was made up and did never really exist, because the thing it describes never existed. The model for it was presumably the Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, as ship captain within the Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft (DDSG, First Danube Steamboat Company, existing 1829 to 1991 in Austria).
The actually longest word was Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz and was the official short form title for the "Gesetz zur Übertragung der Aufgaben für die Überwachung der Rinderkennzeichnung und Rindfleischetikettierung" (Cattle marking and beef labeling supervision duties delegation law) in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern from 1999 to 2013. (As the law was proposed in state parliament, the member reacted with laughter.) Another 'short form' law title was Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung (long title: Verordnung zur Übertragung der Zuständigkeiten des Oberfinanzpräsidenten der Oberfinanzdirektion Berlin nach § 8 Satz 2 der Grundstücksverkehrsordnung auf das Bundesamt zur Regelung offener Vermögensfragen, GrundVZÜV), roughly Regulation on the delegation of authority concerning land conveyance permissions), a decree (=Verordnung) established 2003 and repealed 2007. Only 'short' law titles do become occasionally so long in German.
Danke dafür, dass Sie die Arbeit gemacht haben, die ich mir nicht machen wollte.
Thank you for putting in the effort, which I was unwilling to put in.
Regarding the bombs, you can imagine that they are often found during excavation work for houses, for example. Many houses in Germany have basements so you have to dig deeper and so they are found, the area is evacuated and then usually expertly blown up. It's not like they would still be lying around above ground in masses after sooo many years :-)
And Hasselhoff as I know is well known because his song "Looking for freedeom" was in the german charts while the Berlin wall was falling, the unwanted but perfect timing gave him this boost and the song become something like the unofficial anthem of this remarkable event. It's all about timing ^^
Also because of that its a bit of a running gag to say that hasselhoff single handedly "sang the berlin wall down".
Also The Hasselhoff is known for his roles in Knight Rider and Baywatch.
Though hand grenades can often be found on the surface, with which idiotic teens then proceed to blow their hands up in some cases.
There even are some videos of that happening on CZcams or at least in circulation online.
I was shown one and asked for a picture of the aftermath to show others, why it is necessary to treat explosives with care like on new year's.
That poor (idiot) guy had most of his hand removed, since it exploded prematurely in his hand, but he is lucky to still be alive.
I was taught in elementary school what to do, if I ever found a remnant of WW2 like that.
One of the most beautiful castles in germany (for me) is "Burg Eltz". With a history of more than 850 years, it was the backside-picture of the "500 Mark"-banknote.
28.40 no, the german version called Frikadelle is from 17. Century - US did not exist then
Yes my young friend
education is not totally free (about 300 euros per semester) an healthcare is free (well not all free but basiclly) because we believe education and healthcare are human rights, and my friend i rather give my tax money to qualified students who will sooner or later pay back to manhood but investing in prisons, a frank german opinion
And Hamburg has more bridges than Berlin:) I remember getting one of those cones for Kindergarten as well, and I remember getting one at the annual birthday celebrations for the harbour in Hamburg back when I lived there. I’ve been back several times but haven’t made it back in time for the birthday yet. Yes bollocks is your ‘jewels’ but it’s used to mean nonsense when it comes to slang in England at least, not sure about the rest of the UK.
Hamburg has more bridges than Venice, Amsterdam, and London combined.
@@dbTOTOWdb The fun fact that "City X has more bridges than venice" is so overused. For example, Leipzig, Augsburg and Duisburg also have more bridges than venice. I'm starting to think that venice actually doesn't have that many bridges to begin with. Maybe venice would lead a "bridges per square kilometer" ranking?
is mozart british got me good!
I dont get this whole gummy bear diarrhea stereotype. Do I just not know anyone in germany who gets diarrhea from eating them or are american gummy bears just shitty (pun intended)?
They tried to create a sugar free version of it but produced a thin shit version or so I heard. So now they blame us for it.Typical.
Apparently if you eat enough of them you get diarrhea bc of the maltit syrup which isn't harmful but can cause diarrhea if you consume to much of it.
Neuschwanstein Castle isn't that old. It was built in 1869 by the Bavarian king Ludwig II
Please keep in mind that these "facts about Germany" are mostly "fun facts" with exaggeration, sarcasms, and often, intentionally or not, false claims. So, don't take it too serious 😉
No, you don´t think about the bombs all the time. They are deep in the earth and usually they are discovered during construction work while digging. Then the work stops, they call the experts and evacuate a perimeter around. It often takes a few hours or a day. In Cologne, where I live you hear about a bomb about once a week.
5:40 The capital of West-Germany was Bonn.
12:00 I very recently read in the newspaper that a young boy found a WW2 grenade on a playground (where there was a military area before) and brought it home. Yes, it happens quite frequently even today.
13:55 I would like to add a few more important things in no order from my point of view: the discovery of Alzheimer's, Kepler, a huge amount of knowledge about our biology, chemistry and nature, the original jeans by Strauss, the first computer, elevators, Krupp, Volkswagen (and every car company they own as of today like Audi and Porsche), the car itself, the tons of food we invented (you know like the pretzels or beer, or the famous Fanta from WW2 (yes) for example), the printing press, Kindergarten, the cinema, SIM cards, refridgerator, microwave, the coffee machine. I love it.
40:10 It's actually not that hard to understand. We say "Es ist halb 3." ( = half past 2) because we're already into the hour (of three). Plus we would have to use an additional word. For the same example it would be like "Es ist halb nach 2", literally the same sentence english people use 'It's half past 2'. To be honest it would be easier for english people, too to just say it's half 3 meaning we passed the first half of hour three.
43:00 This is quite interesting for me. I don't think that he explained it right but here's what I know about this: I learned that if your neck is exposed to heavy drafting (like very cold wind) - and this happens a lot if we open the windows of our houses - then you'll get sick. However I do not know any scientifically proven analysis about this but based on my experience I would say that this is true. I only have to think about cold wind around my neck and instantly think about a stiff neck, running nose, teary eyes and a scratchy throat causing coughing.
No, Kennedy made no mistake and when we heard his statement from him, we got wet eyes- it would be the same if someone said after 9/11 - I am an American. He told us he would stand behind us against the Russians. He wanted to say - you are not alone. In the cold war it was very offensiv.
It make me always angry if someone laughs about this - in this time it was a great statement.
Great stuff mate
19:40 Don't forget the "Tierpark"! It is much bigger than the zoological garden. The two work together, but you can really spend a whole day at the "Tierpark" and it's not as stressful as at the zoological garden. Please also visit the "Tierpark" in East Berlin!
Der Tierpark Berlin ist eine wunderschöne zoologische Anlage, sehr weitläufig und sehr viel " tierfreundlicher " gestaltet finde ich persönlich. Der Zoologische Garten ist im Zentrum der West - City und auch nicht schlecht, aber ich finde die Gehege oft viel zu klein. Es ist der älteste zoologische Garten in Deutschland. In bin froh das es beide in Berlin gibt.
Unexploded bombs are literally everywhere. Its so common that a road or city part is blocked bcs a bomb was found, its just normal here
there are castles that go back to the 15th century, churches that go back to the 4th century (Trier under Roman control), fortresses that go back till the 10th century, bronze age museums and Hügelgraves that go back to 4000 BC and the street of the megalitculture that goes back till 7000th BC(at least)
The Hamburger is made by a German from that city, there is no other reason why someone would name it after a German city.
I guess the Americans are really struggling to have something they originally invented.... most of the stuff was already there in Europe when the US was founded...
37:51 Because it is about 300 years old and was officially constructed as a street back then and this was never changed.
Also keep in mind that some information on this list is outdated.
Also, Gasse doesn't actually translate to Street. It refers to a narrow alleyway between houses.
The thing with the long words is not really true. You won't find any of those long words in a German dictionary and every video about those long words says that a different word is THE longest German word. The thing in German is just that you can take seperate words and comine them to a long word. In other languages you would just use those combined words seperately.
37:20 I could literally walk there in less then 2 minutes xD Greatings from Reutlingen. Fun fact some a bit wider people can not fit in there.😬😅
Thank you for helping me learning history.And comedy as well.from London.😊
Most of the old grenades and bombs are found in the forest or when there is build a new foundation.
12:12 yes. We have a forest here in my hometown in Germany where in it there are big signs still saying that you can‘t walk on the not marked ways because its all covered with bombs from the war down in the ground
In your mind street is automactically connected with car. We made and had streets hundreds and hundreds of years before cars. Therefore streets cann be way to small for cars.
26:11 - Hey we have around 30 words that ends in "Zeug" like "Flugzeug", "Feuerzeug", "Spielzeug" and so on (Fly thing (Plane), Fire thing (Lighter), Play thing (Toy))
12:15 I live in small-town Oranienburg which was heavily bombed in WWII (alone over 4.5k ~ 5.7k bombs on 15th March 1945 alone). There still is a an unknown amount of ammo laying around in the ground that's still intact and has to be defused. Most of them underground, i.e. 250kg or 500kg bombs (and of course smaller ammo). There is a special ordnance disposal service which continuously checks all areas for other possible discoveries. Especially when there are new buildings planned they ought to check beforehand if there is something to dispose of first. But the undiscovered ammo is getting older every year and it's rusty as h*ll. So they can't defuse them all anymore. Then the worst that could happen (if discovered) is that they have to let them explode in a controlled way. Most of the time they can move the ammo to an unhabitated place for detonation but one time in 2013 they couldn't. A 500kg bomb was found in the yard of a family's house, still intact chemical igniter and no chance to move that thing. They had to blow up the bomb right then an there after hours of trying. So the family lost everything without compensation from the state or insurance because it was an American build and not a German one. Please don't ask why German government differentiate here. It was devastating. The people of Oranienburg and surrounding areas collected money for the family. I still remember vividly because that was the year I moved to Oranienburg and got quite scared everytime they found another one...
...today I have to admit I got pretty used to news of defuses and temporary restricted areas.
Here is some additional info if you like to know more:
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seventy-years-world-war-two-thousands-tons-unexploded-bombs-germany-180957680/
And of course Oranienburg is not the only dangerous place in Germany as well as allied countries like Great Britain. I read some time ago that there are German bombs still undiscovered which can also blew up spontaneously :(
Neuschwanstein Castle isn't medieval... It was build between 1869 and 1882. There were ruins of a real castle, but they were destroyed to build this... thing. To be honest, it's a horrible stereotype and completely historically inaccurate. It was a crazy fantasy of King Ludwig II., ruined the royal treasury and was never actually finished. Yet, countless tourists visit it every year, while many REAL german castles are ignored...
It still looks magnificent to be honest.
@@prs_81 I guess that's a matter of opinion.
@@prs_81 look at Burg Eltz, or Meersburg they are real!!
besides, it was never finished inside, you can visit just 10 rooms
Well the tourists bring lots of money so...
Speaking as a Brit you should go to Germany, worked there for years, it’s great.
Swan Lake isnt an opera, its a ballet.
Before something can be built on a building site or someone wants to dig a deep hole in their garden, the location needs to get checked for bombs. Its obligatory. Archives and maps get checked since they kinda know where bombs fell and i dont know what else they do...but its a must. And no, its never on my mind.
the clock thing, we do that in sweden as well. it is sometimes confusing when you have an international group of friends and you have to tell the time. we just say the numbers sometimes , since it is much easier
we do the same in the Netherlands. So 2.30 would be 'half drie' (half three), which means something like we are halfway to 3 o'clock.
Wanken in german means to not walk or stand straight but kinda pendeling from left to right for example like a tired pup or kitten wvos about to fall asleep sitting or a drunk guy beng unable to keep his balance
(Also in relation to decition making)
So for germans the montain has not a wired name
I Can only speak for where I live in England, but unexploded WWII bombs are found all the time. Usually results in an evacuation, and then either do a controlled detonation, or they can disarm it. (more fun when they blow it up though)
However it's not something you really think about. And the actual chances of you personally finding an unexploded bomb is quite rare. You'd probably have to have a certain job to increase your chances. Like maybe a builder to digs out foundations for houses? Idk. It happens though
well its time to react "Dinner for One"
12:16
I was working at an Part / Industrial Area in Bremen for a few years.
So... they started to renovate and build there.
Every other day during constructions there was found a WW2 Bomb.
Meaning public transportation was impossible during the time of defusing, which lead to me coming home like 2 hours late.
So yeah, WW2 bombs are very much on my mind till this day.
The chances on finding a Bomb during the construction of new buildings is quiet high.
There is a saying about it "Fucking Allies... could they not just build functioning bombs? This way we have to deal with it two times... once when the bomb hits the building and the second time we have to dig it up 70 years later because it did not go off..."
A few weeks ago on a Sunday there was this huuuge evacuation of so many people in my neighborhood. I think it was like in a radius of 1km around that spot where they detected a bomb from WWII. So the people had to pack their most important things and leave their apartments for the whole day in case it would explode. I actually live like 20m from the end of the radius. They had like shelters for people who couldn't go to friend's houses
5:50 - former west german capital was a small village called Bonn. :D
Matterhorn is situated in Switzerland at 4448 m ( 14.593 ft).
I got evacuated a couple times because of WW2 bomb threats. But usually they only find them when they're doing construction work. Not really on my mind. Like... ever.
If you look at other Norman Foster buildings, the Bundestag dome renovation is just his style
Fun fact: there is still graffiti from the invading/liberating Red Army in the basement of the building
31:52 - There alegedly storys of nurses that take the elders of the bus stop at around afternoon and asks about there great time by their grandsons and granddaughters.
12:22 I wouldn’t really think much about bombs in the ground nowadays, even though there are so many found during construction work. I used to live in Nuremberg (which was heavily bombed in the end of ww2) and there is usually one bomb found a year. Still you wouldn’t think much about it on your walk through forests or a park.
But in the first few decades after the war I think it was still quite a danger. My dad’s school friend got injured and his mom died when she stepped on a landmine in the forest and my uncles found a hand grenade when they were children.
For the thing with the bombs: I live close to Cologne, so I know how often they find bombs near the big old streets, traintracks and near the river, a friend of mine worked at a construction side, where they found 2 bombs in 1 week (same guy had both of them on the excavator shovel). Adn then they found a 500KG RAF bomb about 250m away from where I was born. Makes you think... :/
Ah and BTW: As a child me and my friend like to play near our lokal Autobahn (behind a big wall, so it was save), because there where lots of fun litte craters and stuff. Our parants didn't like that very much, becaus, as we found out later, those where bomb craters, too.
If you want to know "how to build a castle" ... you need to visit *GUEDELON in FRANCE,* which is a castle that is being built with medieval techniques. They started in 2000 and it was supposed to take 25 years (but maybe the coof slowed it down a bit).
12:11 i live in berlin, there are often found undetonated bombs around here. Most are deep into the ground and only found when digging and constructing something by the construction company. I never heard of ANY ever going off 42:26 yours was actually way better than in the original video, congrats!
What i never get is,why americans always mention diarrhoe when talking about Gummibears..In Germany that never happens
The county I live in, in England, has a White Horse as it's flag. Apparently from the settlers who came here during the great migration. I think it's the same horse on the lower saxony flag (I live in Kent)
Hengist and Horsa who invaded Kent. The inhabitants of (present day) Kent were known as the "Canti".....hence where the name Kent derives from.
. “ Was Mozart British?”. What???
It was then that I took a much closer look at you and realised that you are much younger than your voice portrays.
I do apologise👍
11:20 well "weird austrian moustache man" is a thing in some regions
B*llocks is mildly to pretty rude depending on how you use it. It can mean either your male dual "bits" or is an expression or exclamation to rudely say that something is utter "nonsense/rubbish". (So, just be careful how you use it. 😂)
e.g.: Someone just came up and for no reason punched me in the b*llocks! Ouch!!!
or "That TV programme last night was a load of old b*llocks".
Yes as a German Driver, as long as he isnt over the limit, is technicaly permitted to drink Beer or Whine etc while driving (yes your more like to be asked if you would mind taking a deep breath through this thing till it beeps) it would be posible to get it at a drive through or at a gas station
Hey buddy on your second channel I don't know if you realised but the comment section is turned off you may have done it on purpose just thought I'd let you know love your content on both channels 😁👍🏴
Woah thanks Samuel! I’ll fix that now! Thank you!
@@McJibbin 👍
about the 7:1 in brazil. it could have been even more but the trainer told them to calm down and show some respect casue we are playing in their country. thats why the second half is not comparable with the first
About the glass ceiling in the parlamental house: right before ww2 the Original ceiling was blown off with explosives by "Terrorists" Eventhough it was probably an inside Job. Then later they put the glass ceiling up
btw the word for leading speed at the Autobahn is pronounced as Rishtgashvindigkite (in german letters Richtgeschwindigkeit)
42:15 - This word is very weird splitted... we tend to split on the "syllable"... not how we feel like it. Sooooo. yeah. We even have a book called "Duden" that shows for every word how the syllables are.
So even i had problems to speak this word because in this representation.
The bombs are no everyday concern. Most are found while digging out basements. Most of the time the bomb squad removes the bomb from the dig site and lets it explode in a quarry or other safe place. Sometimes they have to defuse it on site. Then we have a little evacuation time, no big deal.
In recent years the German authorities gained access to allied photos (shot from planes) and they do systematic searches of areas via earth-radar. In my area, there was a big project some years ago. The city of Landau got back an area that was occupied by the French military since WWII. They didn't need the barracks and decided to convert the area into a public park via a horticultural exhibition. They had to postpone the exhibition for a year because when they had demolished all the buildings and started digging to sculpture the land they found so many bombs that they had the bomb squad on the grounds for literal months.
28:40 - I'm fine with a compromise to say that the Hamburger was invented on different spots on the Earthglobe at around the same time by different people, okay?
Yes, Berlin was the capital of eastern Germany (GDR) during the times of the cold war. For West Germany, it was Bonn, a city on the Rhine, and it remained the capital of the reunited Germany from 1990 to 1999. Berlin was in the middle of the GDR, with only half of it being "western". West Berlin was like an island in a foreign country.
Martin Luther published his theses in 1517 (which then led to Protestantism).
Mozart was an Austrian from Salzburg.
A few years ago, they had to evacuate 200,000 or so people in a city after finding and having to remove a huge bomb that was there since WWII and that hadn't exploded. They have removed most of it, though. But in France, too, there are people who look for and collect shells and things like weapons they find.
For converting meters to feet, multiply by 3, it will give you an approximation.
It's not illegal for Germans to call their kids "Adolf", but in France, it was illegal to name a pig "Napoléon" (seriously). It possibly even still is, it used to be a law, anyway.
Fanta-Kuchen and Rentajew? Never heard of it...
In Germany, there is Saint Nicolas (Nikolaus in German), a bishop from the 3rd or 4th century, patron saint of children among many others on the 6th of December, and for Christmas, depending on where you are in Germany (it's mostly a north/south thing), it's either the Christkind (christ child) or the Weihnachtsmann (Christmas man) who brings the presents.
Groups of men who go hiking? What? People go hiking, but it doesn't result in groups of drunk men running around. The longest word is obsolete, there are no more steam boats on the Danube.
Well, we have to take his word for the benigneness of drafty windows, since he is a brit. A country with about 110% drafty windows...
12:15 - No It is not constantly in our minds. for one thing, the open areas in city are usually well searched. And for second we dont have the time. We are out in the parks to relax to be better productive ;) Kappa
AND out in the woods not many bombs are found. There may be smaller ammunition like handgrenades and such, but those are not the big threats and bombs found that are not exploded yet usually appears in the more muddy areas like Berlin and usually during construction work which involves digging. I personally never encountered any evacuations due to bombs being found somewhere as of today. (im 30 yo)
In 2021 i was in the castle "Neuschwanstein"! It was cool in there. And also due to covid it was not that full there at that time
Little addendum:
The unassuming town of *Bonn* on the Rhine was the West German Capital while *EAST Berlin* was the Eastern one.
The more logical for the West would have been *Frankfurt* , former "capital" (or something approaching this) of the Holy Roman Empire, or at least the place where Emperors where elected (yes, *elected* , a typical Germanic thing) and later crowned.
However the cabinet felt like had they made *Frankfurt* made the new Western Capital it would *never* have been Berlin again, even after a reunification, because while *Bonn* had no base to *be* the capital other than an as an intermediate, *Frankfurt had* .
This is why the current one is the debt-cess-pool of Berlin and Frankfurt has to contend with unimportant things like the the busiest airport (that actually *works* , eh Berlin?), the busiest and most central train station in continental Europe and - oh - the seat of one of the most powerful central banks in the western world, the *European Central Bank* that runs the whole Eurozone...
Best regards from a born Frankfurter (and yes, it's really *that* when referring to a citizen of Frankfurt in German🤣)
Raoul G. Kunz
In Stockholm, Sweden, we have a street (or alley) called "Mårten Trotzigs gränd" which is 34 cm at it's narrowest. Beaten by Spreuerhofstrasse by just a mere 3 cm. Americans have been known to be stuck there and had to be pried loose by the local fire brigade.
Theres not Bus only the stop, the old ones may have forgotten where they live but remember that they have to sit down and wait for the bus... every hour or so a nurse comes and collects them
Certain areas in some forests in Germany are still not accessible cause there are so many unexplored bombs and mines there
Regarding the unexploded bomb thing in Germany:
You think about it mostly in the realm of construction. Anything breaking ground requires a bomb suvey. And bomb defusial is a common event like road construction. Happens every week somewhere. And if you happen to live in an evacuation zone? Good opportunity to visit the parents or spend the day at the zoo or something.
And you know not to mess with that strange metal lump you found in the forest walking the dog. It might be an old grenade.
Yes, it's morbid.
But so are the active shooter drills that my cousins in the US have to do in school.
If I get to choose I pick the professional bomb defusial nextdoor.
05:25 Berlin was the capital of the German Empire from 1871 until the end of the war in 1945. From the end of the war until the reunification of Germany, Berlin was divided into East and West Berlin by the infamous Berlin Wall. East Berlin was the capital of the former East Germany (which was mainly under the control of the Soviet Union). West Berlin could only be reached from West Germany by train, plane or special transit highways, West Berlin was practically a walled-in island in the middle of East Germany. The capital of West Germany, or the Federal Republic of Germany, was Bonn, a city near Cologne. With the reunification of Germany on October 3, 1990, Berlin once again became the new federal capital.
To Nr.75. I live in the north of Bavaria and to this day every wild boar (often also deer) that is shot and intended for commercial sale is tested for radiation. If you hunt in private and consume it only in private, it's entirely up to you.
It's just a reminder to take it into consideration, especially if you live in an area that was heavily affected back in the day. And it also goes for mushrooms. Usually those foods are completely fine, here you should just be a bit more careful.
Well gummie bears schould only have following ingredients
Pig or plant gelatin natural foodcoloration sugar (glucose) and aroma (natural hopefully)
So you should not get diarrhia hahahaha
Can I suggest you watch Al Murray’s stand up on how global finance works. You will find the Germany v Brazil gets an hilarious mention. Keep up the good work old chap. You are a profound reviewer of all things comedic and interesting.
lol… i never thought about some unexploded bombs in the park… until you brought it up. thanks.
Can you please react to the first parts of Kings and Generals new Pacific War Series?
Hi from Rennes / Brittany / France ! If you like medieval castles and want to know more about how they were built, you should take a look at that video about the castle some historians and archeologists are building nowadays (using the techniques of the Middle-ages) in Guedelon (Burgundy) : czcams.com/video/qMspm83hiWY/video.html
My mother had to leave work one day because they found a bomb in the area and had everyone evacuate to defuse it safely. It's definitely a thing here and you hear about it on the radio ever so often.
He forgot the most important philosopher: Friedrich Schiller
I used to live in a fairly rural area in Germany where they (safely) detonated a WW2 bomb that was discovered in a random field in the middle of the night. The sound was so loud that I woke up to a loud bang with wobbling windows. That was really awful
you can also order other beverages at the Oktoberfest, but beer is 99 of the time. a wine or 2 and shooter options! now the beer seems quite smooth like a cooldrink. xD
Er hat uns Würstchen genannt... O_o
Btw I never got diarrhea from Haribo. Is American Haribo different in terms of ingredients?
Can you please do 101 facts about Austria??