American Reacts to GEOGRAPHY NOW! GERMANY Reaction

[@VoloxTV]

As a German, I have a few things to note: Guns: Germany does allow guns, but to own a gun you need to jump through a bunch of hoops. So while it's a lot easier to get guns in the US, it's not like owning a firearm is illegal. Compound words: Misspelled as "Mehrdrutig", Mehrdeutig means ambiguous. However, while writing the script they must have gotten a bit mixed up because ambiguity isn't central to the idea of compound words. Compound words use some simple words, prefixes and other "building blocks" to create words with new meanings. Autobahn for example consists of "Auto" (car) and "Bahn" (track/path/tracked vehicle; here you can actually see a word block with some ambiguity). So an Autobahn is a "Carpath". A Straßenbahn is a tram, "Straße" means street, and as "Bahn" can also mean a tracked vehicle (like a train), it's essentially a "Streettrain". This means that compound words rarely get confusing, as they don't all have unique meanings. Vergangenheitsbewältigung absolutely doesn't have anything to do with lingering guilt. It means something like "tackling the past". This kinda feeds the misconception that Germans still feel super guilty today. We don't feel guilty as such, almost none of the Germans alive today played an active role in WWII. But we have inherited a responsibility to ensure we never go down that path again. Owning Mein Kampf isn't illegal, however displaying Nazi-associated symbols publicly, denying the holocaust, or promoting genocide will get you into a lot of trouble. "Volksverhetzung" doesn't have to do with denying past atrocities, instead, it refers to hate speech directed at a people, as in promoting violence or abuse towards a group. As an example, a call to assault all Buddhists would count as a case of Volksverhetzung. About the tornados: It may be technically true that Germany has the most tornados in Europe, but to be frank, Europe just doesn't have a lot of tornados to begin with.

[@Krokostad]

Please post this under every Geography no Germany reaction video because you summed up all the mistakes perfectly and explained very good what the words actually mean.

[@VoloxTV]

@@Krokostad thanks for the compliment! Happy you liked my comment!

[@tigeriussvarne177]

Only thing you missed, is that we have over 3000, not 300 different kinds of bread in Germany.

[@CoL_Drake]

it also helps that our buildings normaly stand after a tornado cause they are made out of bricks and not of wood like american houses xD

[@ev.09]

Mein Gott seid ihr deutsch LoL

[@hape3862]

"They were part of the Holy Roman Empire at some time." - Ehm, no. We *were* the HRE for 1,000 years.

[@martinfehrs7147]

German dubbing is extremely good. Most of the time you really think the movie is in German. Foreign stars often dubbed by the same person in different movies. This way you get the feeling that the actor is really speaking like that. It even sounds strange to here their actual voice the first time.

[@fusssel7178]

And they don't speak over the original. The original sounds are cut out so you don't have the english (for example) in the background and the german over it. But yeah, I still prefer the original and then using subtitles (most of the time even english ones for whatever reason, maybe to keep up with my english)

[@red_dolphin468]

actually the voiceactors have got contracts for being a German voice of specific actors. and yes it is possible that a voiceactor speaks multiple hollywood stars in 1 Film, but even than u usually dont notice it, because voiceacting is king :)

[@rostigeschubkarre6644]

They even try to fit german words in the english mouth movement so it seems that they are speaking german 😅

[@MellonVegan]

It may be comparatively good but I still cannot watch it, anymore. After you've seen the originals, it's just too clean (no ambient sound or anything, no realistic reverb for the room) and too unaccented (where are the dialects? Where the unique idiolects?). Everyone just sounds the same, with some few notable exceptions. It feels very fake, to me.

[@LunarisArts]

I'll bever forget seeing Knight Rider somewhere as a child, and being surprised over David Hasselhoff speaking german... an how much work they'd have to do to record the same thing in two languages. When the realization hit I was (and still am) a sub over dub snob.

[@shelleyjackson8793]

I liebe Deutschland so sehr, dass ich Sprache gelernt habe. (I love Germany so much I learned the language).

[@fusssel7178]

you didn't fail the das/dass test, I am proud. That's enough to accept small spelling errors and a missing article :D

[@arnodobler1096]

wow sehr gut

[@lorenzsabbaer7725]

no, the dialects are not frustrating. you mostly get what its about and if you dont get a dialect word, you just simply ask what it means.

[@howtoleague9123]

Drinking beer with 16 or driving as fast as you want... completely insane!! Everyone can have a gun... completely normal :D

[@tonywilkinson6895]

I worked as a bricklayer in Germany Koln Bonn Düsseldorf area’s,I loved it great country and great people.🍻

[@Tim5441]

19:53 no its not frustrating, its pretty cool because germany is so diverse, which makes this country so great. Everywhere u go u can learn things, its never get boring. :)

[@skylinwinter5970]

19:56 no it’s not really frustrating because you can understand most words everywhere and also lots of the dialects kinda get lost by the time

[@Yoshimitsu863]

Fun fact: the Brit in the Inglorious Bastards pub scene was played by Michael Fassbender, a Irish Brit whose father is actually German!

[@MortimerFolchert]

Regarding the "dubbing everything part", it's true and I must say, that Germany is really good at dubbing. You usually won't get into an "uncanny valley" situation where Lips and Words won't match. It's because we try to translate the scripts to find words or phrasings and/or timing to match the Lips in the Show/Movie. It's hard work, and sometimes Jokes or extensive meanings get lost in translation or to the fact that it wouldn't match as well. Sometimes, especially in some older productions, if they couldn't find a "good" translation to match they would "cut" the Show/Movie to not showing the Lips in that moment, e.g. cut back to a frame of the Person being talked to or use a zoom. It's barely noticeable unless you watch a Movie in 2 Languages on 2 Monitors at the same time. (Or know one version of a Movie by heart.)

[@thomasnieswandt8805]

The "grandmaster of dubbing" is Rainer Brand. He is one of the most regarded script writers in the world and he invented the "Schnodderdeutsch" Basically a version that people on the street would speak but had little to no concetions to the original material in the movies. He perfected his craft with "Bud Spencer and Terence Hill" or "Hogans Heros" or "the Percuaders" the last named was a smash hit in Germany but so unfunny and unpopular in GB that Brand was hired to write the english script too, but the series was dumbt. A little fact, why germans started to dubb stuff... Until WW I almost every german was raised bi lingual = meaning german and english, because Queen Victoria was the grandma of our emperor or later Georg V was his cousin, it kinda showed the "proud relations" to the family of the emperor if you could speak their language. However, after WW I english was "the language of the enemy" so it took a while (up until the late 1950s) to teach english in schools again.

[@thesmanbrowne4561]

I lived in Bielefeld for 3 years as a kid ,,love Germany (and I’m English) they are good bunch 👍

[@terryoconnor5262]

Hello to any German who reads this, we love you efficient fellows 👍

[@HafdirTasare]

10:35 The "Tornado" situation is actually not that bad. It's rather realy heavy storms then real tornados. Since much of Germany is not consitent of flat crop area, Tornados do not realy get to take up much force, but the floods in the north can get rather dangerous some times. Also, since german infastructure is build to last, the damages are usualy only minor.

[@aphextwin5712]

Germany might get “a lot” of tornadoes but they all rather weak ones. It is extremely rare for them to cause any significant damage. Heavy thunderstorms with torrential downpours and strong gusts of wind are the typical ‘heavy’ weather during summer. What happens infrequently are powerful extratropical cyclones during the colder half of the year, whose strong winds knock over tress and cause other storm damage.

[@laurajarvis3156]

I live in the UK and my dad owns a sniper rifle for target shooting at a club. This might surprise you...but you can actually get guns in the UK. You jump thru a few bureaucratic hoops and a police inspection of your safe and you can actually buy a gun.

[@89erMerun]

A small correction: The 300 kinds of bread are a vast underestimate. We have over 3200 officially recognised kinds of bread. Oh and regarding your bot having a big army, that is about to change as the budget for it was just lately immensely increased to, I think, the 4th largest military budget of the world and a brand new tank was announced, the KF 51 Panther.

[@keoken9078]

And if I remember correct last time we had a big army we had bad thinks happening and everybody forbid us to have a big army again

[@Rincy42]

That said, it is kind of a common joke to imply that german military assets are dysfunct or not maintained and that the Bundeswehr (the German military) is not able to hold anything in a war. However that is a joke stemming from the dispositions of the german public towards the military in the post WW2 era and those dispositions have changed (sometimes rapidly, as in the last year).

[@4Kandlez]

So we need to keep a close eye on you then

[@Steeler-wg5zo]

@@4Kandlez asshole comment, not even funny...

[@hectphil]

@@4Kandlez please dont, were on your side now.

[@SovermanandVioboy]

Hey, german here: The Scene from Inglorious Bastards is pretty realistic, imo - Micheal Fassbanders Character only speaks in very short sentences, during the whole situation and he can pronounce the single words correctly - suddenly he bursts out and tells the drunken german (the first stranger that came to the table) to behave - this is when the SS Officer first noticed it - he just sounds super clunky. At this point, if he would have come up with a story that would have explained why hes sounding weird, I think he could have fooled the SS guy. Because there were foreigners in the Wermacht - whole Regiments.He could have just told him, that he was a german, raised in England and that he came back to fight for Germany. Thats not unrealistic. Instead he told him that hes from a small village near the Pitz Palu Mountain, in Switzerland and that its the local accent - that was a big mistake. Swiss accents are suuuuper recognisable for germans and he sounded nothing alike. When he ordered the beer with the wrong gesture, it was just the last hint the SS guy needed, to be sure hes fake.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

Guess what? Michael Fassbender is half German and was born in Heidelberg (home of Germany's oldest university founded in 1386) to an Irish mother and German father. The English equivalent of the name Fassbender is Cooper ie somebody who makes barrels.

[@HafdirTasare]

@@gustavmeyrink_2.0 True, allthough Fassbender does not speak very fluent german, even if the scenes may imply it. For the scenes he memorized the text and had a language coach.

[@skylinwinter5970]

19:00 that’s a form of carnival they do there (called Fasnet) where they kind of dress up as their local tales, usually witches, devils or other creepy shapes

[@HafdirTasare]

21:42 Dubbing in german is a national art. Lip Sync and authenticity is very highly looked upon. Some say otherwise, but i think german dubbing is pretty good in most regards.

[@comedicsociopathy]

Destroying cultural backgrounds and dialects can never be authentic. Dubbing is outdated and I'm looking forward to it disappearing someday.

[@rashomon351]

the "holy roman empire" was not a unified german state. It was a conglomerate of hundreds of kingdoms and dukedoms, ruled by a king elected by the rulers of those territories. All those territories stayed independent to each other, but obliged to a common ruler.

[@nbrain1595]

yea the HRE is probably easier to understand as a big group of tiny countries, signing an allience/peace treaty between each other, with an elected king/emperor whose main function was adjudicating disputes between them to avoid wars etc. (extreme simplification etc, but i think its closer to that than a unified government etc)

[@frontgamet.v1892]

The HRE was German.

[@TeargasHorse]

To this day, Cameroon in Africa speaks 3 languages, English in the north, French about everywhere, and German in the south-east. It is not rare to meet someone who speaks all three, nor is it rare to meet someone who only speaks one or 2.

[@jobue394]

German maybe one percente or?

[@omadduxo]

The low national pride in Germany has few to do with WW2 but a lot with what you've seen earlier in the video. The Germany we know today is pretty young and the first time Germany became a unified state was in 1871. Before that Germany was a loose community of small kingdoms and tribes that all had their own culture and language that sometimes heavily differed from the common german language. I'm from Saarland for example. It's the smallest german non-city state and the 1 million people here speak 6 different recognised dialects with at least 6 more mixed dialects and 12 different words and/or pronounciations of "potato". Depending on where you are in my state the german word for "you", "DU", can be pronounced LU, LAU, DU, DAU, DE or DA. It's a lot of regional pride and even within the state there is more local pride than national or state pride. It's like when people from New York call people from New Jersey wannabe-NYers. But in Germany it's on a whole different level like the difference between sports fans in the USA and in Europe. It can be difficult to understand other germans when they speak in their regional dialect but we germans can switch between our dialect and "common german" on the flight. And that's what we do if we recognise that someone isn't from the area and usually you speak in common german to people when you are in another state so they immediatelly know that they have to speak in common german too. They will still speak in their regional accent and sometimes a dialect word slips in but you will understand 99% of what they are saying.

[@watchreadplayretro]

Seen half and thoroughly enjoyed this! Work calls, but I will resume the rest later. I have visited the Austrian side of the Danube in the past but have yet to visit Germany. Brilliant video and reaction thank you! Some fascinating facts here! Ok back again! Fully agree about the subtitles, and with any dubbed media there seems to be a huge difference in litteral translation. Sometimes having subs and dub on at the same time shows just how open the interpretation is! (not that subtitles are perfect either) And wow those masks from the street party, yep stuff of nightmares wow! Brilliant reaction, learnt so much! And yep followed Geography Now :)

[@MrMillhouse72]

Germany has more than 3.000 different kinds of bread, not 300 😉 And the Roulade is normally made from beef, not pork 🤓 Also there are no bears living in Germany (sometimes a young male bear crosses the green border from Poland or the Czech Republic to GER, when he’s on its way to new hunting grounds), but many Wolfes. 🐺 BTW: it’s legal to buy “Mein Kampf” in GER. You must be at least 18 years old and the bookstore isn’t allowed to promote the book.

[@asmodon]

18:37 the people in the masks are celebrating Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht, their traditional version of carnival. It’s so traditional that women are not allowed to participate in the parades. All the people in masks are men.

[@1889jonny]

I'm British and live in Germany, that should make a mess of your demographics *lol* . What might interest you is, politics here is boring as hell, the PR system they have ensures endless coalition governments, so everything is a compromise... It might be shits and giggles if you have Trump or Johnson, but it's taught me to love boring politics, the world needs more of it.

[@KingBoomer]

Lol

[@HafdirTasare]

True, allthough the frustration often comes from this boring politics. There are just not enought fresh and supportable people in politics and old people most of the time vote the same party they voted for their entire life anyway. Which is why it was so hard to change the governing party after 16(!) years of uninterrupted Merkel and CDU reign.

[@frankb313]

19:04 is the kind of traditional carnival - quite similar to the Swiss carnival (allemanisch) - "Fasnets Umzug" (carnival parade) - with groups of different similarly dressed people organized in clubs. I guess the crazy masks were traditionally created to scare the Winter season away - as carnival is usually in January / February

[@arnodobler1096]

Fasnet

[@richardmangelmann4975]

Barbarians yeah! I love that a German show Is being watched by international viewers! And also that they actually made the romans speak Latin, that’s amazing. That one main Roman guy is actually Italian too

[@endercat1707]

I am from Germany, Bavaria. I think it’s entertaining watching Americans realize that there country isn’t the best or just the culture difference. It’s kinda funny tbh.

[@ganimagalaktika5720]

I am German and I have never ever seen a real Tornado! Been living in the north, Hessen and Bavaria. No movie like Tornados ever.

[@fusssel7178]

ah, our tornados in europe are really small compared to the ones in the US. They don't do much damage (well, some they do but in most cases they just take the roofs and some lose things around with them). One of the more powerful ones from this year: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKKZYpiYd7J5r5I

[@RustyDust101]

Correct. IIRC there were around three small tornados of the F1 or f2 category here this whole year. One caused some relatively minor roofing damage. As far as I know there has never been an f3 in Germany at all. So that's like comparing the happy meal at McDonalds with a full surf'n'turf meal at a restaurant. 😄

[@mars76mr]

correct... because our houses are build in a different way.

[@sheilathompsett2570]

You need to see an episode of Fawlty Towers...Don't Mention the War...absolutely hilarious.

[@i-klaus]

I liked “Over There” best. Greetings from the Black Forest.

[@gazbradster]

Hi mate, ask your German fans about ' Dinner for one ' An old English comedy sketch that's shown every year mostly in Germany, classic stuff 🇩🇪

[@SimonKelk]

There are so many different variations of this too. I used to watch this every New Years Eve with my friend who lived in Germany for many decades. Same procedure as every year!

[@Lion-D.-Garp]

As a German.. "you" didn't force the split. You (USA) just couldn't stand up to Russia for a better deal. No offense. It was a game of balls ^^ In general german beer ( Reinheitsgebot ) is twice+ as old as the US and A as a country :D

[@berndheghmanns1437]

Our Tornadoes are not as big as the ones in the US and we normaly don't name them tornado, we call them Windhose. Only now, we begin to call them tornado.

[@Westcountrynordic]

Been following Geography Now from the start, he's working his way through the countries of the world alphabetically and has just finished Trinidad and Tobago,

[@chestnut01111]

Many Americans who identify their ancestry as English, were descended from Anglo Saxons who came to England from Saxony and displaced much of the English natives to Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

[@laurajarvis3156]

Oh and yeah we had a mini tornado in Shropshire in England. It was tiny but it did throw down half a massive sycamore tree 2 feet in front of Mt window. So that was much fun, but obvs way less scary than the crazy tornados you get there!

[@HafdirTasare]

14:40 short remark: One American, One Brit and One German Hugo Stiglitz played by Till Schweiger is a german character.

[@Microtubui]

we build houses with bricks not wood. so a tornado is okay^^

[@Sciss0rman]

We're not crazy, we just learn how to drive properly :p

[@MellonVegan]

20:00 Only the most obscure local dialect spoken by someone who is virtually 150 years old will be unintelligible. Unless people are Swiss and then they'd just speak their standardised version of German instead. But I'd argue I can hold a conversation with any person speaking some form of German. I mean, Low German and Luxembourgish are classified as distinct languages and I can still mostly understand them. Dutch and Frisian are a bit more difficult but one can get the jist of things. Now if even distinct languages can kinda work, dialects are not an issue. And the North really only speaks one dialect (Standarddeutsch) and variations thereof (Ruhrdeutsch, Berlinerisch, etc.), minority languages aside, of course. People sound distinct, which is quite interesting, seeing as you can sometimes identify the exact city someone is from, originally but intelligibility is not an issue.

[@AggressivelyLoving]

20:00 Like he said almost everybody in Germany speaks (high-)german (dude its just regular german we dont call it high german that often anymore) so Hallo and Tschüss are basically our hello and bye.

[@Slippy6582]

Interesting fact for you, i guess... Germany is starting now to invest a lot of money in the military. They are in the NATO like the US and a lot of other countries and one rule says: You have to invest 2% of your GDP into your military. Germany never wanted to do that and only invested around 1,2%. Why? Well, if we spend only 2% of our GDP it is so much money that we will be BY FAR the most dominant force in the EU, because we have such an high GDP. But now with the situation in Russia we invested these 1,2%+2% in one go and after that we will always invest 2% or maybe more... So i think in the next 5 years Germany will be "freaking strong" and most of the germans (including me) dont really want that, because we are still haunted by the things from the past even if our generation was no part of it! We are confronted with this in school A LOT and also in the media at certain channels, we try to learn from our past. So i hope that makes it a little bit clearer. Have a good one! Greetings from Saarland (Germany)

[@ShenLong991]

In the other way... why sould we had to invest 2% of our GDP when we are not even bordering hostile countrys. Since 1990 all our surrounding countrys are friendly and our "Bundeswehr" was a sole defence army. Only good in staling attackers so long that army is coming. we literally are surrounded by friends and through economic connections most of the world understood that war is an economy killer in the longrun if fought on own soil. So we tend to profit from others wars and make sure that no war ends without us.... Or something along those lines. (pun to "Making sure no War starts from Germany.")

[@johannesheinsohn6956]

@@ShenLong991 " make sure that no war ends without us.... Or something along those lines." somebody knows his Volker Pispers

[@schattenwolf2044]

4:07 As a German, I am glad that Americans, Brits, Germans and French have integrated all these principalities, kingdoms, provinces between 1945-1991 into 16 states and brought them into an order. This would be the nightmare of every political candidate in federal or state elections. The German state budget already has problems to finance 16 state parliaments. We can be happy that we do not have 300+ states like in the Holy Roman Empire. It was also sensible that West Germany introduced the municipal reform, which merged individual villages in the 16 states into one municipality to make them economically efficient. For comparison: I come from a village in the state of Bavaria, and we form a community with 8 smaller villages.

[@lilithiaabendstern6303]

tell that the Franks, because I doubt they like being called Bavarian + Mecklenburg & Pomerania were two different principalities with their own languages and cultures, but yeah let's butcher that two but yeah, I see your ignorance is showing, I mean. the Germans had no say in the matter, the fourth power were the Russians, and they just took, divided Pomerania and converted After-Pomerania into North Poland (together with what remained of East Prussia) + also the principalities and all of this - that was done by Napoleon first and Prussia later - and I wish to this day Bismark has decided on leaving the kingdom of Bavaria out of the realm when he created the imperium out of the kingdom of Prussia, so what are you talking about but you're right with one thing at least, it's West-Germany or the west-german government, because we were not reunified, only occupied since 1990

[@richardmangelmann4975]

I mean technically there were even lesser states when Germany first got unified. So I don’t know why they would’ve gone back to make even more states after ww2. That would’ve been stupid to do after all of the work it took to make less kingdoms and states after the HRE. So we already had the few, I don’t really know what to thank them for when most of the work was already done before.

[@jenson1896]

Great video, much love from Germany 😊

[@spring_in_paris]

Hello there. Regarding the highway and lack of speed limit. In order to get your driver's license here in Germany, you go to a driving school for a while. You have multiple driving lessons including night driving, country road driving and freeway driving. As of course several driving hours in the city.You have to be at least 18 years old to drive alone after the test and with 17 years an experienced co-driver has to be present. And yes, it's very fun to drive 200km/h. great fun.🤘

[@JohnHazelwood58]

Check out some videos about german inventions. I mean: Not only the car was a german invention, but also the computer etc. And Coca Cola's "Fanta" is a german drink, too.

[@sampeeps3371]

To be or not to be a horse rider. That is equestrian

[@christopherwoolnough2160]

Fun fact. When the Declaration of Independence was written it is said that there was a vote on which language would be used. If 3 people had voted another way then King Boomer would now be speaking High German. 😊

[@endercat1707]

That pistol is cool. I wish I had a part of History. We are not crazy we are efficient. I am from Bavaria to be exact, I still don’t drink alcohol and I am vegan. We don’t need a big army, we have many friends, that’s our army. NATO, EU, as well as these friendly relationships, Just think about it. It’s not frustrating, context and so on.

[@DavidSmith-cx8dg]

That's a good educational presentation . Sounds typically 100mph yank commentary but we'll presented and I actually understood and retained a fair bit of the information . Germany is as well thought of as any other Country nowadays , in my youth not so much . They are still the team we love to beat at football , but mainly because they are consistently among the best at World cups . As for colonies I refer you to Al Murray . A few more of these videos might be a good idea .

[@uli69247]

Never heard of a tornado here, seriously. Props from Berlin.

[@HafdirTasare]

26:02 ahhhh yes, thinking of Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Major General of the continental army. with the famouse quote as he inspected what was explained to him as the American continental armed forces: "With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army."

[@fyanle1382]

Upto the 1980 census the largest ancestry group was English, when 'american' was introduced German became the largest as Americans whose ancestors came before 1776 started identifying as American Rather than their European ancestry which mostly affected the English ancestry

[@ilonahaun]

The few tornadoes in Germany are in no way comparable to those in the USA. There are around 20-60 tornadoes in Germany each year (USA around 1100/Europe 300-500), with mostly only damage to property. Very rarely do they go beyond F3 strength. Calculated over the past few decades, there has been an average of one death from tornadoes in Germany every year.

[@DSP16569]

Last F5 was in the year 1800, last F4 in 1979 (i guess) and (since 2003) 10x F3 in Germany (statistically 1 every second year).

[@JohnMacbeth]

If you've got a few drops of English in you that does count as German in around about kind of way. You've got some Anglo-Saxon in you 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

[@melvin7023]

I am 28 years old and i never see any tornado Here 😀 Best wishes from Germany 🌴

[@yashiAxen39]

i never seen a tornado and i am from cologne. i never heard that there are tornados in Germany

[@agromx224]

i also didn't know, that Germany is the tornado alley of europe, and i AM german. so, i wouldn't call it tornados, like what you have in the US, just storms. also, our housed aren't made of paper, so they don't care about some wind outside. to the inglorious bastards thing: that finger counting thing is just something we learn here, it's natural etc. so that major may have been very keen about that, but no german would ever count 3 like that, it's just habit and against our "nature". to the "big army now": the last 2 times we had one, we world didn't really like it, remember? ;) but yeah, we're about to start that again, this time with approval of all our neighbours :) to swabian culture, carneval and the masks: that's just heritage. remember all the old Grimm tales and fairy tales? Hänsel and Gretel? the witches are also part of that.

[@fabianbianchi9159]

The dubbing is really a big thing in Germany and the experience in it brings some quality, of course with some exceptions like the famous subway sandwich from the Simpsons, when the responsible translator obviously didn't know the fast food chain, that needed some time in Germany to become a thing. So the German Simpsons fans thought that Homer had the idea of dying some day because of a "U-Bahn sandwich" (by choking or what?). The difficulties with different ways to say goodbye is the biggest exaggeration. If you don't know how to say goodbye to a German, then use "Tschüss" or "auf Wiedersehen" That funny letter that looks it a bit like a capital B is something that doesn't really make sense. Why not just use the classical double s? Instead we need a new letter for a double s when it follows a long vowel or diphtong. Another interesting bit might be the following video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYi8haGZbNJso6c It is about the construction of Airport Berlin Brandenburg AKA The deathbed of German efficiency.

[@jwrpodcast]

As a german, being 30 years old: never saw a tornado here.

[@dariusblank6034]

9:15 okey so normaly it´s like 120 or 150 the "no speed limet sign" is really rare, but even so ther some peaple that just go nutts on the Autobahn

[@veryincognito6776]

Yes, this year we had two tornados in the city of paderborn. How many tornados have the US ?

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Life's good here, if you are well educated and have a good job. Education is basically free, so there is no excuse for stying on the lower end of wages.

[@neilpowis7488]

Finally some culture ! But best played at 75% speed, with the added bonus of our Brian sounding drunk!

[@KingBoomer]

Lol I’ll have to try that

[@alpine_newt]

UK actually has the most tornadoes in the world, but they are so small that no one notices.

[@kamomilppf]

U should start a series where u do every country

[@michaausleipzig]

About that West-Germany thing... You should know that this stamp is rather the exception than the rule. In pretty much every way West Germany declared itself to be just "Germany" after ww2, the position that they were the sole legitimate Germany was an official policy. East Germany was never recognized as a country, which is for example why the east didn't have an official embassy in the west, just some pseudo thing which pretty much did the job of an embassy but couldn't be named "embassy". You could also see this in many other day to day things, for example the east and west both had a football league. And whoever won the west german league was called "german champion" with nobody even wasting a thought on the fact that this was not quite accurate. This is also why reunification played out the way it did, with the east german states simply joining the west german system. And frankly this west german mindset that they alone were german and we easterners weren't, laid the groundwork for all the issues that came with reunification... So your gun was not really made in a country that doesn't exist any more, sorry. I however was... 😅😉 About tornadoes: I think he's exxagerating a little here. I dob't think you can compare tornados here and in the US both in frequency and intensity. Still we usually build our homes from stone or concrete, not wood and drywall ... so we're good... 😅😜

[@imlegaciek954]

Hay a German here ^^ Dude i like you, and you are really simpatico ^^ i like your reaction :D Supp from me :D

[@peterbondesson5481]

You should do more reactions from this channel 👍🙌

[@Max_Flashheart]

Geography Now is amazing and is doing every country they are up to Trinidad and Tobago. I would love you to react to Geography Now New Zealand

[@HafdirTasare]

15:30 You mean the "I didn't talk to you Obersturmführer "Munich" and also not with you Obersturmführer "Frankfurt" (Calling them out by their accents) i am speaking with the Hauptsturmführer "Nowhere" scene? yes, very well known and beloved in germany ^^

[@lennartvers1767]

The Netherlands next?

[@jazzyflausch1591]

My mom still has a big caramel brown bowl and on the bottom it says manufactured in DDR (east germany) she was born and raised there now living und the 'west' ern area

[@patrickschindler6781]

How much can I drive on the Autobahn? Although there is no general speed limit on German autobahns, there are recommended speeds of 130 km/h. These apply to motorists and motorcyclists. September 22nd, 2021

[@frontgamet.v1892]

I find German history incredibly fascinating because the Germans and Germany were always there, but at the same time not and always different like a shapeshifter. Stupid oversimplified: Rejects Roman annexation - Germanic Tribes defeat Rome, are often slapped in the face, but Rome generally fails to subdue them Creates an empire that wasn't really an empire but also was an empire and somehow lived for over 1000 years - very special and unique The Kingdom of Prussia and hundreds of German States gangsta! Before being defeated by one of history's greatest generals. defeats the French, unites into a new empire Get a colonial empire Fights 80% of the world alone and almost won.. Is treated badly Comeback as Villian, fights the whole world and only lost because of own mistakes.. Gets divided again Reunites again and is not allowed to be strong again. Also a few German inventions: - Incandescent lamps (Heinrich Göbel 1854) - The Telephone (Johann Philip Reis 1859) - The dynamo and tram (Werner von Siemens 1866) - The 35 mm camera (Oskar Barnack 1925) - Nuclear fission and atomic bomb (Otto Hahn - emigrated to the Americans during Nazi Germany - 1938) - The ship chart (Jürgen Dethloff and Helmut Gröttrub 1969) - Periodic Table (Julius Luther Meyer 1864) - Jeans (Levi Strauss 1873) - The recorder, player - with which the first films were possible (Emil Berliner 1887) - The Aspirin - Which all great athletes felt used to relieve pain, And which saved countless lives (Felix Hoffmann, Klausi Alder.. 1879) - Spark plug (Robert Bosch 1902) - Thermos flask (Reinhold Burger 1903) - the toothpaste (Ottomar Heinsius von Mayenburg) - The coffee filter (Melitta Bentz) - Cassette recorder (Fritz Pfleumer 1928) - Teabag (Adolf Rambold 1929) - The jet engines - Essential for all jets and rockets + First war rockets V1, V2 of the Nazis (Hans von Ohain 1929) - First rocket (in general, Hans von Ohain) - The helicopter (Heinrich Focke 1936) - The first car (Carl Benz - With honorary Schnauzer - 1886) - First Computer (Konrad Zuse 1941) - First 3D film (during the Third Reich) - Fanta (Yes THAT Fanta.. Also during the Nazi era) - The typewriter (Peter Mitterhofer - 1869) - NASA (actually the US buyed thousands of German engineers to build NASA because they can't do it themselves) - The first letterpress Mashine (Which was probably the best invention of all time because now they could start printing books, Johannes Gutenberg - 1440) - Motorcycle (Gottlieb Daimler 1885) - Birth control pill (Schering AG 1961) - the trigger of the gold rush (Johann August Sutter was a Swiss but actually German since he was born in Germany, but Swiss and German are one blood anyway, Who triggered the gold rush in America. Not an inventor but cool fact - 1848) Well, as you saw, the Germans changed the world with their inventions many times. Where we would be today without the German art of thinking. Germany the land of poets and thinkers - that's how it was known (Actually) The problem is that many Germans are not proud of their country and blood, unfortunately also because they were brought up that way. Because if you say anything to that effect, you will be called a Nazi. The problem is that many people don't have the right deep historical knowledge that people need to understand the world and and that only Hitler himself and his party were Nazis. Almost no German was a Nazi during the Nazi era. Also, any historian will tell you that the Allies, created Nazi Germany and WWII because of the unfair Versailles Treaty. Germans were so depressed that it is unimaginable for us. They were seen as evil around the world as they were blamed for everything in World War I. And when you have 3 kids at home, no job, money is worthless and no food and water you will follow anyone who fixes it. Because that's what the Nazis did in the beginning - they fixed everything and gave the Germans hope again. No German at the time could have known that Hitler was so crazy. It's not as easy as we always think. Even in the Wehrmacht, only a few liked the Nazis. They were German soldiers dying for the country. the general German soldier, like my grandfather, had nothing to do with the Nazis and the Holocaust. You must consider this one army fought against the rest of the world. And if we are honest: what kind of "peace" could the general German soldier expect? What could have they expect after all the Nazi crimes and everyone thought that all Germans were evil Nazis. What "Peace" could they expect. These soldiers fought for their lives and German people against a planet. If even many of Hitler's own generals like Rommel (legend) or Stauffenberg knew that he was not quite right in the head.. Then the normal people knew that even more. Many were manipulated and could do nothing about it. The Nazis were a small parasite not the Germans. You can imagine the Nazis like a natural dark Parasite Rising from the suffering of the Germans. And the 'Problem' is that Germans are People who have a very special work and perfectionism mentality. That's not a weak enemy. Calling all German soldiers Nazis is like calling all American soldiers democrats because they were in power. We should be prouder of ourselves, after all, Germany has repeatedly fought against the entire world, one time under a bad regime. We made this modern world possible and maintain a reputation for perfection and quality. The hard-working German with perfection in his blood! Or rather, we once had this reputation. Today there is no longer a country of poets and thinkers. We are still occupied by the USA. And people are manipulated and have no prospects. A dark age. What I also find very interesting is that the Germanic people spread very far and are therefore the ancestors of many other people. Therefore, historians are not entirely sure how German the Germanic peoples were, but since they were the first to speak German and also created English, they were already German. In addition, the Germans were also the ancestors of the Vikings means Germanic mythology is almost identical to Norse mythology. Actually the same. I would be in favor of not only teaching the Americans that Germany is the bad guy and that they really deal with it. Most of the settlers who came to America at that time were German. Over 40 million. That's why you have so many German names. That's why the Americans love German culture and are surrounded by it, but don't want to admit it. Every "American" fairy tale was recorded and reinvented by the Brothers Grimm, they were German.. Great reaction by the way.. The US is very beautiful. Thanks for listening 🎉

[@sampeeps3371]

My grandfather died in a concentration camp. He fell out of the watch tower.

[@boodahwompwomp4077]

🤣you are sick!

[@theninjabird9510]

Bruh 💀

[@sampeeps3371]

@@theninjabird9510 I was told to post it. I'm just following orders

[@shelleyjackson8793]

I went on a date with a German guy who told me this joke over fifteen years ago 🥱

[@bmxerqf882]

@@shelleyjackson8793 if he was German it might not have been a joke

[@viking9227]

Germany was Not a Part of the holy Roman Empire ! But the Name of Germany in the middel Ages was the holy Roman Empire of German Nation ! So was Germany the holy Roman Empire ! Thats the True ! And the will of Germany into the WW I and WWII was not to conquer the World . But to make Germany great again !

[@hessischelandbote1701]

Mmh living 35 years in the North. But never saw a tornado. I think , if it’s happened, they are very small

[@SchwerM79]

We do not have really tornados...

[@tigeriussvarne177]

If you want to learn more about gun ownership in Germany, check out Joerg Sprave from the Slingshot Channel, he made a in detail video about it.

[@stampcollector74]

I just was born into this country - I didn't choose it. But I like it here - there could have been worse places to grow up. ~_~

[@gmdhargreaves]

Great video dude- I also have a piece of very nice pottery that is marked West Germany, so circa 1946- 1989 I think. Didn't 007 use the Walther PP?

[@KingBoomer]

007 used the Walther PPK. It is essentially the exact same gun, but the Walther PP has a slightly longer barrel. That’s the only difference.

[@karstenbalamagi8463]

@@KingBoomer PPK, the k stands for "kurz" which means short. so for sure the other is longer. ;)

[@timglennon6814]

I’m subscribed to Geography Now myself, after being introduced to the channel by McJibbin.

[@richardmangelmann4975]

I still don’t know about the weird tornado part, I’ve never seen or heard of a tornado in my life.

[@Humpelstilzchen]

Don't worry. We have a ton of firearms too 😅

[@alberstar3256]

Hi im from Baden Württemberg and and I wanted to write something about those people with the witch masks. One of them run to a woman and took her with them. Another year they took my mother and they were of and another one took something out of my hair run away and i never saw that again. 🤣

[@alberstar3256]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3fXioaVl7OpqLs In this video you can see how they take women or girls. (It's just for fun) but there are so many more videos about them

[@alberstar3256]

They also take shoes and things like that kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5azaX6elr-paKM

[@danielweber2456]

Germans sometimes can´t understand other Germans properly when they speak their regional dialekt. Especially when 2 people from north and south speak to each other. Therefore it´s good that there is "HOCHDEUTSCH" :)

[@Kyla-m4c]

As a German ...i watched inglorious bastards Well.. in german (everything IS dubbed here xD its true) ...but Back then i didnt know that americans use another way to show the No. 3 ... At first i thought why? IT was explained in the movie...but Back in 2012 when the movie came Out ihad No internet and wasn't even able to speak or understand english xD i had 'n D- in english when i graduated xD.... As U can See my English is still bad...but i can atleast understand and reply to BE understood ^^

[@Kyla-m4c]

And im drunk asf

[@Scorkies]

Geography Now did a very funny and informative video on Ireland, I think you would enjoy it .:)

[@farn8222]

16:52 we work on that hahah we are now the 3rd biggest spender in the world after the us and china so we rearm

[@79Testarossi]

Great reaction 👍🏻👍🏻 try geography now - austria 🇦🇹

[@Dr_Klops]

Well you should consider the age of the video you saw. This means shortterm facts like the Berlin lightbulbs tend to change faster and may not be that true today but over all the story is correct. But some facts are frequently misunderstood. Although it's correct that Germany has the most Tornados of any European county, neither their strength nor their frequency can be compared to America. I can understand your point with dubbing. You presented it quite right. The difference is Germans have learnt how to do it professionaly, you won't see it. Mouth motion matches sound. But you're example also presented what can't be done with dubbing - conversation trials in different languages. To your question "What about the holy Roman Empire?" - That wasn't pure German and much more important, that wasn't a nation thing, where people identified as belonging together. And the people didn't belong together. They fought wars against each other, but there was not one war that the empire as an entity fought against any foreign entity. There was no experience to build a single nation.

[@lazios]

It's not the german three, it's the french, italian, spaniard etc three, basically it's the eu three.

[@chillbargress4690]

What about Geography Now Switzerland?

[@Alex25CRC]

You should check out the joke about Spain. You will love it.

[@scr3y767]

i'd love to have a gun thats named west germany cuz thats kinda rare without our black market

[@thorstenkettler-thiel1198]

Yes we have tornados but they are not as bad as those in the US.