American Reacts Germany - Dresden and Leipzig - Rick Steves' Europe

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[@kristena9285]

What you are saying about wrist watches is they are no longer of any use as we now have pocket watches (phones).

[@williambranch4283]

It was in Saxony, at Meissen, that the Duke thru an upstart alchemist into a dungeon ... saying I will let you out when you can turn lead into gold. The alchemist turned clay into porcelain for the first time outside of China, ... and the Duke made a fortune!

[@billyo54]

Why would you look at your iPhone when you can wear a Patek Phillipe? For the same reason there's a difference between handling an illustrated Medieval manuscript and a downloaded version on your computer.

[@arnodobler1096]

Bet I'm faster with my watch than you are with your iPhone!?😂

[@CobraChicken101]

Hey, Conner, I studied in Leipzig 2000-2001 ( erasmus exchange programm) so i know the area a bit and it is beautifill with a very interesting and important history. Let me be blunt and say It is way more interesting than these "boring" videos let one believe. We saw the Meissen pottery as well, it is nice to see but... very boring. So let me give you 10 better reasons to visit because This area has way more to offer.: 1. The Top class university carries the name of Karl Marx, but i studied economics there and i assure you his ideas are not the ones promoted there 😂. 2. A Must visit, is the Stasi-Museum in Leipzig. Where you get a real insight in the horrible police state the DDR was. 3.The Thomaskirche, built in 12th century, renovated in the 18th, where Bach worked and was the musical director, the Chior was founded in 1212 and to this day is internationally renowned. Luther preached here as well. 4. The real Auerbachskeller where Faust ( by Goethe) sold his soul to the devil. It's germanies 2nd oldest restaurant and has wzs already an importand wine bar in the 16th century. 5. Talking about bars and restaurants ,still today the Nightlife is amazing, any day of the week, dont forget the amazing ->nr6 6.The MoritzBastei ( students dugg out the old city walls , left it underground but inside it is a site for partying , dining, music, art, .., you have to see it to believe it ) 7. the lakes and mountains rival the Alps. 8. the closenes to Prague , Poland and Berlin... 9. This had to be nr9, but is my actual nr1. On 9 October 1989 around 70,000 people took to the streets in the East German city of Leipzig, despite the threat of a command to shoot. With candles in their hands, they peacefully demanded more freedom and democracy in the GDR - a decisive catalyst for the start of the Peaceful Revolution that finally led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the call "Wir sind das Volk" [We are the People] and "No Violence", people gathered to march across the Leipzig inner-city ring road. This is remembered every year with a festival of light and tens of thousands of candles. oh 10. and yes Napoleon has been in this area😂. He was defeated here in 1813 first before his final defeat in Waterloo, there is a massive monument , Völkerschlachtdenkmal, way way bigger than the one we have here in Belgium at Waterloo. BONUS nr11: Roßplatz Döner Kebap, staple food of the hungover exchange student 😂 Much peace and love from Little Belgium 🤘❤️ Ps: little detail 😉, in 1870, the part of Belgium where german is spoken wasnt part of Belgium yet, this was land Germany had to hand over as part of the Versaille treaty.

[@davidmarsden9800]

Regarding number 2 there really wasn't much difference post 1945 regime compared to 1933-1945. Communism is just National Socialism's non-Aryan grandmother.

[@williambranch4283]

Archduke Maximilian of Austria (movie in German 4 years ago) tells the story of this future HR Emperor, who was the last old school knight in Europe in the late 1400s. He loved armor and jousting, and the movie (in a clip) shows a royal sporting duel with broadswords!

[@wendycartwright22]

I'm 70 and have always worn a watch don't feel dressed without it.. I would panic if I went out without one on 😏😊😂I'm socially awkward to you learn to live with it 😊..

[@davidmarsden9800]

Looks an impressive city with new looking old buildings. Mainly because it was a main military transit hub for the Eastern Front in 1945 so was bombed flat.

[@FernadodelaRoja]

i love Glockenspiel!

[@panther7748]

I'm actually from Leipzig. :D

[@Erdbeerschorsch2011]

Leipzig is no longer the shithole it once used to be.

[@d34d10ck]

What time is it? Now tell me how long it took you to find your phone, grab it and get the time? It took me literally just one second to look and read it of my watch.

[@Thorium_Th]

Are you that much in a hurry? :)

[@d34d10ck]

​@@Thorium_ThQuite the opposite. I'm actually quite relaxed and not someone who carries his phone around with him all the time. I can even handle not using it for a few days and one reason why is because I have a wristwatch.

[@Thorium_Th]

@@d34d10ck Then why is it so important to save seconds using a watch? ^^

[@d34d10ck]

@@Thorium_ThKeep picking it up. What do i care?

[@ronbird121]

funfackt, most leipzigers never visited or talk about dresdn

[@simpleplays9638]

of course we have visited Dresden many times, but we don't like it because we see Leipzig as capital of Saxony

[@MartinWich-Glasen]

And this dream never come true. 😅​@@simpleplays9638

[@KeesBoons]

Pocket watches are not bracelets! ;o)

[@la_bread6320]

i hope someday you can make synthetic ivory

[@stirlingmoss4621]

who's 'you'?

[@rasmusn.e.m1064]

@@stirlingmoss4621 we ;)

[@Thorium_Th]

Ceramic is already in use for teeth replacements. If this isn't synthetic ivory I don't know what is. But the human race is nasty. People want animal teeth to make figurines out of. It's the prestige.

[@Heisenberg-Blue]

The green vault from the second video was robbed a few years ago by a criminal Arab extended family. This year the guys got convicted.

[@panther7748]

Luckily, only a small part of the collection was stolen. Still an immeasurable loss, but the vast majority of exhibits is still there.

[@hecatonecles4334]

you forgot when it is make, think about it. 😉

[@freudsigmund72]

I do miss any notification by Rick Steves of the American war-crimes committed in Dresden during the bombings with firebombing the city filled with it's citizens and refugees)

[@davidmarsden9800]

You reaped what you sowed on London, Coventry, Portsmouth, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Hull, Newcastle, Glasgow and others. That's why you got town planning by RAF Lancasters. You'll have to ask the yanks why they visited. As for war crimes none match those of the SS although the Wehrmacht were that blameless either.

[@freudsigmund72]

@@davidmarsden9800 you don't hear me complaining about most German cities and what happened there. This act on dresden was a deliberate act to create a firestorm in a heavily populated area.

[@davidmarsden9800]

@@freudsigmund72 just like the Luftwaffe did to Coventry.

[@freudsigmund72]

@@davidmarsden9800 I am not saying the luftwaffe didn't do similar things and are similarly to blame. However, Coventry was in the beginning of the war as part of on offensive when the UK could have been conquered, were it not for US support. Dresden was in the closing staged of the war when it was clear there was no way out. That raid had no militairy purpose.

[@davidmarsden9800]

@@freudsigmund72 yes it had as Dresden was the main rail and road hub for military supplies and soldiers to the Eastern Front and the raid was to support and aid our Russian allies under Zhukov moving through the Oder front and Koniev heading for Berlin via Leipzig and Dresden. Germany was beaten once the borders both east and west were crossed and all they had to do was surrender, but no Armageddon they wanted and that's what they got. I'm surprised that the Russians had the DDR as it was instead of making all eastern Germany like Kaliningrad instead.