Brit Reacts to Geography Now! Germany

[@thomasd5]

Actually, the 300 sorts of bread is an old estimate, when nobody bothered to really count the sorts of bread. Nowadays there is a German "Brotregister (bread-register)" by the Deutsches Brotinstitut (German Breadinstitute), which counts 3551 different sorts of bread. Of course, you won't find a bakery having all 3551 sorts, most bread is specific to a certain region, like beer, where we have 8135 different brands. (Biermap24 , Biermarken Liste). The number of citizens is 84,607,000 (Sept.30th, 2023)

[@charli4815]

danke. da waren so unglaublich viele Fehler drin. echt schade, dass dann nichtmal einfach ein Deutscher selbst gefragt wird wie unser Land eigentlich so ist

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

Are you really education Brexit voters here ? Sweet.

[@thomaspaine2217]

@@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists Education isnt tied to political position. If you dont educate those you disagree with theyll never change their ways

[@Chiales]

Well, over 300 is still technically correct :D

[@irminschembri8263]

We have MUCH MORE than only 300 types of bread !!!!! It's more like 3 000 !! And no, Gummibärchen don't give you diarrhea !! There was one incident in the USA as far as I know a long time ago ! And you can say Auf Wiedersehen and will be understood everywhere ! And we DO speak English - most of us ! :)

[@Christof_SmaulXL]

I even had diarrhea without eating gumminbears. Coincidence? 😆

[@KardoganLR]

If you eat too much Gummibärchen, they can give you diarrhea. But who really eats 1,5 kg Gummibärchen in one go...? *remembers some friends*... erm... never mind...

[@irminschembri8263]

@@KardoganLR :))

[@cbxk1xg]

Wrong. Most germans do not speak english at all.

[@YezaOutcast]

high german is usually understood everywhere. thats why we have a standard dialect. the local dialects are sometimes so different that even other fellow germans from other parts of the country cant understand them.

[@derrekshrum9264]

Yes, many Americans identify as having German heritage. Especially from the Mid-Atlantic states to Minnesota and the Dakota's. I'm a sixth generation myself. And, if you're interested I lived in the Darmstadt area in Hessen for two years and loved it. I still consider Germany my second home.

[@robertq55403]

Texas has a vast German population

[@derrekshrum9264]

@@robertq55403 Very true, my list was nowhere near complete. I understand that you also have a large Scottish presence as well. Thank you for your comment.

[@briankirchhoefer]

Southern Illinoisian here. My ancestors came from Hessen also. They founded the town of Darmstadt Illinois.

[@derrekshrum9264]

@@briankirchhoefer That's very cool, my family came from the Bavarian Alps area as did my mother's family. I love the Darmstadt region, especially the Odenwald area. A little trivia for you, that's where the real Castle Frankenstein is. Specifically right outside of Eberstadt. Unfortunately there isn't much of it left, but the Germans have been faithfully restoring what is left. They held really cool Halloween parties there. Thank you for your comment.

[@publicminx]

its even more all Anglo and Saxons are in a way related to Northern Germany (which is also the birthplace of Proto-Germanic) and Netherland/Denmark region (also Jutes etc.). And also Proto-Celtic culture has its origin in Austria(Hallstatt)/Southern Germany regions. And nearby eastern regions is where proto-Slavic and proto-Italic (later they moved over the Alps to Italy) came from. The entire Central European region between Germany and Hungary is the origin of one of the two major cultural branches (the other was in today Anatolia where Greeks, Etsruscan etc. branched of) of the Kurgan/Indo European Meta Culture. Also France (much later) got its name from a Germanic tribe confederation (built out of other smaller and older tribes, thats why confederaton) - the Frankish tribe - West-North Germany, Netherlands, Belgium region ...

[@miztazed]

The Wall was only in Berlin. But the rest of the border between East- and Westgermany was also scary af. It was called the "Todesstreifen" (death strip) full of minefields, Barbed Wire Fences, self shot attachment, German shepherds, Snipers in a tower and so on.

[@Smoo1977]

Actually there were stretches of wall instead of fence between the states, too, where people lived nearby.

[@mahinschatz]

Germany is NOT known for it's Valhalla and the mightiest river is the Rhein of course!

[@Witzwo1]

The relationship between France and Germany is really great. They invaded each other so often, that they became friends. The Elsas is a region, that switched really often between belonging to Germany and belonging to France.

[@Fabboi_unl]

"HOW ARE YOU MEANT TO DECIDE AT TEN?!" Thats the fun part. "YOU" don't decide anything in that scenario. Good / very good grades -> goes to Gymnasium, good - average -> goes to Realschule, average - under average goes to Hauptschule. Barbie makes it sound like a better system than it really is.

[@Anni-lavenderlemon]

They would understand if you say „auf Wiedersehen“ bc we learn hochdeutsch/ normal German in school and are able to talk it. It‘s kinda like knowing two languages.

[@prismaticc_abyss]

"Auf Wiedersehen" is always correct, as he mentioned this is high German (or Hochdeutsch) which he mentioned in the video, the "standard dialect" everybody speaks.

[@infensi1043]

the pupils can switch between the different school types and there ist also the option to visit a "Gesamtschule", in which all kids are teached together till their 15th/16th year.Then they decide between higher school or they learn a job. In germany is a 12 years school visiting duty

[@noopaa_j]

I agree that people can switch, there are always circumstances that allow one to switch depending on their own ambitions and skills. However I don't think Gesamtschuke works like that, or there might be multiple types. In mz hometown we had one seperate gymnasium and one gesmatschule ( I went to that one). Yes, every type, gymnasium, real and haupt- schule + so called "förderstufe" ( support and envouragement class with kids that could not yet be sorted into one of the types) was there but we had seperate calsses and didn't learn together :o regarding the switching, I've known someone who graduated from hauptshcule and worked and took extra classes afterwards to get to " realschule", and the to get his Fachabitur. Abitur is usually a few schoolyears more than other schooltypes, so you don't loose toooo much time if you graduated from real- or haupschule choose to try and make up qualifications to get a upgraded certificate. abitur=the highest graduate certification, you get it after you finnish Gymnasium; Fachabitur = majorspecific Abitur qualification, meaning you can apply for university majors within that choosen field, however no other major outside of that chosse field, there are a few fields like " health and socials" or "economics and administration", "design" and "technology

[@cbxk1xg]

That's wrong. It's 10 years not 12.

[@arnebollsen]

moin ut noorddüütschland vun de waterkant bremerhaven,😁 Odin, Thor, Walhala also the fanze Germanic mythology did not only come from the Vikings but was there long before with the Germans. The gemans include Germans, Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, Islanders and Dutch. Temanic mythology was slowly pushed aside by Christianity from 600-800. but Germanic mythology is still present in many places. In standard German the gods are called Wodan - Odin, Donner-Thor, Freia - Frija, Loki-Loki, Balder- Balder. allerbest un hool di wuchtig mien keerl👍😁

[@nettcologne9186]

Americans seem to care about where their ancestors come from; according to recent surveys, 40% of Americans have German ancestors. There is also a German belt that stretches from Pennsylvania to Oregon, i.e. where most Germans settled. But there are also many in Texas with German ancestors who still speak "Texasdeutsch" (Texas German) to this day.

[@publicminx]

since Proto-Germanic has its origin in Northern Germany and Proto-Celtic in Southern Germany/Austria (Hallstatt culture, not just the US but a huge part of Europe is in one way or another related (btw, Proto-Slavic close by in the East and proto-Italic culture/tribes came from close by Hungary (before they moved over the Alps to Italy). Central Europe is and was due to its geological interface situation always been the major hotspot - together with today Anatolia (where Greeks, Etruscan etc.) was the other major branch of the IndoEuropean (Kurgan hypothesis) meta culture ...

[@German_-Guy]

It is even 45% according to german Television

[@meganoob12]

Since Americans don‘t have centuries old traditions and heritage, they love to claim our heritage from the old world as theirs. Also the the usual figures of 30-40% are not actual heritage, but merely the amount of US americans who CLAIM german heritage.

[@LeicaM11]

Sauerbraten and Rouladen are made from beef only! Sauerbraten sometimes from horse originally at the Rhineland!

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

2:26 First correction: The Holy Roman Empire consisted at first of two Kingdoms (the German Kingdom and the Kingdom of Italy), in 1033 the Kingdom of Burgundy (also known as Kingdom of Arelat) joined the Empire, in 1158 the (non-German) Duchy of Bohemia was elevated to Kingdom (and got Moravia and Silesia as fiefdoms), and in 1238 Emperor Friedrich II made his illegitime son Enzio King of Sardinia (which was before that ruled by the Republic of Genoa, which was part of the Empire). Emperor Friedrich II was also King of Sicilia and Naples, a heritance from his mother Konstanze, the daughter of Roger II, Normannic king of Sicily 1005-1154, but neither Sicily nor the Papal states were part of the Empire as the map suggests. The Kingdom of Sardinia got lost to the Kingdom of Aragon (Catalonia), the Kingdom of Burgundy was given as fiefdom to the Crown Prince of France, the Kingdom of Italy was lost after the 30 Years' war (as also Switzerland and the Netherlands became officially independent). The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved due to order of Napoleon who then created a bunch of new kingdoms, like Württemberg, Bavaria, Saxony, Westphalia - but those were no kingdoms within the Holy Roman Empire. The kingdom of Prussia started out as duchy within Poland and became independent due to the Polish-Swedish wars, before it declared itself a kingdom and allied with Russia and Austria to divide the remaining Poland between them. It was also never formally part of the Holy Roman Empire as the map suggests, even if its predecessor, the State of the Teutonic Order get support from the Emperor for its claims of independence against Poland during a short period of time. 4:00 Yeah, 40 years. The "death strip" along the border was nearly abandoned then and forms now a "green band" of nature conservation areas. 5:06 The Valhalla was erected 1830-1842 by King Ludwig I of Bavaria (whose wedding with Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen spawned also the Oktoberfest, which is actually the anniversary of that wedding) as symbol of a reunification of Germany after it was split in different kingdoms by Napoleon (including Bavaria - Ludwig's father Maximilian I was actually an ally of Napoleon, and Ludwig led the Bavarian troops during the French-Bavarian occupation of Berlin). The Valhalla houses busts of persons who had in his eyes acquired merits to Bavaria or Germany; later other busts were added, e.g. of resistance fighters during the Nazi regime. 7:15 But most of those tornadoes are rather weak compared to the Amercan "tornado alley". By the way: England has also its own "tornado alley". 7:24 That is wrong. There are over 3,000 registered kinds of bread. 8:03 Rouladen is beef. Sauerbraten is beef or horse (for the original Rhenish sauerbraten they used mostly the meat of old horses or pit ponies, which had to be marinated in wine and spices for some days to make it tender enough). 9:05 There are no free living bears in the Black Forest yet. All bears in Germany came over from Austria to Bavaria in the last few decades or so, and none has moved farther west. 10:22 The numbers are a bit outdated. Currently there are 84.7 million people in Germany, about one million of them however refugees from Ukraine (which adds to about 1.2% of the population). 11:02 Tuition-free for EU citizens. Some states like Baden-Württemberg have (small) tuition fees for citizens of (most) non-EU countries, some states have also small tuition fees for second degrees. 11:32 Frisian is spoken in Friesland at the coast of the North Sea; a small part of Friesland is also within the Netherlands. Romani is the language of the Roma (or Romani people), an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan ancestry, which immigrated from North India to Europe around 1000 AD after the muslimic conquest of Pakistan. In colloquial English they are often called gypsies. Plattdeutsch is generally Low Saxon, but sometimes also used for some Middle Franconian dialects (Low Franconian would be Dutch, Middle Franconian encompasses the Lower Rhine, the Ripurian dialects, Moselle Franconian, Lorraine Franconian and Luxembourgish). 12:15 Swabian-Alemannic Fasnacht, the traditional type of Carnival celebrated in the Southwest. More of this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGGXnWWQnct6qck or kzbin.infoQIlVOV-UNPg 12:35 Cuckoo clocks are not from Bavaria, but from the Black Forest and were there mostly produced for the export to England. 13:18 Auf Wiedersehen is the formal goodbye. The Bavarian Pfiat di Gott translates to "may God guard you", the different variations of adjuus, tschüss, adieu and ade go back to adaptions of northern French "á dieu" (to God) at different times in different regions. There is also the greeting "Grüß Gott" (greet with/by God) in southern Germany. 13:37 Those really long words are artificial constructions designed by some law makers as "short titles" for minor and short-lived laws.

[@bertram5798]

Alta?! Dein Ernst?! Nicer wrapup ;)

[@ethenielpast3599]

auf wiedersehen is always right. :D greetings from Germany. Also nice to meet you. bis ´später´ it means, we will meet again. :D It is a kind of kindness. Germans are much more nicer, than you think.

[@baum7des7lebens7]

15:36 In my state (Bremen) this was changed over a decade ago. It is now called "Oberschule" and is something similar to comprehensive schools in Britain (I thought Britain also used to have a system with three branches of secondary school before? 🤔). A few schools of the "gymnasium" type still exist as the exception.

[@Lifty1]

Baguette is no bread, its baguette - greetings from germany

[@SkybitGaming]

If you count Baguette as bread, you can also surrender. Tschüss!

[@eckartredlich4639]

Sorry, coco clocks come from the blach forrest, not bavaria. And yes we decide at age 10 which way the lifepath will be. However there is multiple ways to Crossover to an other curriculum later on if you have ambition or wish for it. The mask you saw is the swabian karnival, we call it Fasnet in this area and goes back in time even bevore the USA became independent. The masks are cut from wood, some kostumes are quite heavy and all are regulated to be traditional and stay in their original forms. Well german burocracy does not stop even on ancient traditions.

[@Rygel-XVI]

I noticed that everybody sees Bavaria as the main Germany, we have so much more. For example: Did you know that King Richard I, named Richard Lionheart was in captivity (from 31. March bis till 19. April 1193) at Castle Trifels. (3 Castles close together on 3 Hills)? This is my Region. You see Germany has a lot more to offer than always the same schemes. Greetz

[@yugioht42]

Romani are actually the rare Gypsy minority. They used to be nomadic going place to place but have mostly settled down. They however have kept their old traditions just adapted them for modern day.

[@baum7des7lebens7]

Rare?

[@barnygeroll1700]

Valhalla German are also Skandinavia and GB Angel Sachsen 🙂 Angels and Saxons are a Germanic tribe

[@KardoganLR]

You mean Anglo-Saxons? Angels are something else. 😁

[@gamergod9182]

15:30 you don't really decide yourself. the way GeoNow described it is a bit euphemistic. in reality, it's all really decided by your elementry school grades, the top third go to a Gymnasium, the middle third to a Realschule, and the bottom third to Hauptschule. you are not forced into those categories, but it is strongly suggested by the teachers which path would be best for you. also, if you finish 10th grade at a Gymnasium (which goes up 13), you automatically get a Realschule degree without having to take any final exam, and you could in theory just quit and start a job with that. and those with a Realschule degree can apply for a Gymnasium to get their Abitur (High School Degree) and move on to a college or university. it's overall not a very rigid system.

[@CobraChicken101]

Pretty soon " High German" may have another additional meaning 😂. Well done Germany. ✌️❤️

[@Ati-MarcusS]

correct :) der war gut !

[@Dreatnought1966]

@@Ati-MarcusS Für weniger Begabte mag das zutreffen.

[@fuchsraeude1294]

Pathetic.

[@phoenixwright9105]

Whenever i left Germany for a longer time, there were always 2 things i didn't realise i missed a lot until i got back. good, real bread and beer. So many countries have a lot to offer, but nothing beats German bread and beer.

[@Alastriona72]

I live in the Black Forest and no, we have no bears

[@Kamil0san]

- You may find bears only in german zoos, the last wild bear that entered germany in 2006 from the czech republic, was called JJ1 or better known by the name Bruno, he was declared by the bavarian government as a "problem bear", because on his trip he ate some domesticated animals like sheeps, after some attempts to catch him alive that did not work out he was finally killed. -The cuckoo clocks are not from Bavaria, they are from Baden-Württemberg, more precisely from the Black Forest region. -There are over 3000 types of bread or buns in germany. -Lower Saxony is called that not because of the position to Saxony but because of the lower altitude. -the witch masks are connected to the local carnival traditions, there are carnival groups that take part on a carnival parade and every group has their own typical costumes, some of those masks shown are made of wood and are passed on to the next generation, so some of them might be very old, others are brand new, but made in the same way as the old traditional pieces.

[@Olatua42]

Making you bigger helps in front of German cows 😂 I think there could sometimes be bears in the south because they entered from the southern border. But the region is too densely populated and therefore unfavorable encounters with people occur. The same problem with the wolves. Chances are higher that you will see traces of wolves. Once a wolf killed a calf from my parents' herd. They live in large uninhabited areas, for example in Brandenburg.

[@Fetterrabe]

the decision for the school is usually based on a persons interest and grades, hauptschüler mostly aren't so great a sciency fields so they less mathematics and nature studies. while in the gymnasium they learn more scientific fields with heavier focus on chemistry physics and biology. and realschule is the middle ground. hauptschule is 9 years, realschule 10 and gymnasium differs from 12-13 years

[@JoergBechstein]

Speck Kuchen and Ahle Wurst in the Region of the city of Kassel !!!

[@sunrise2986]

The school thing is slowly changing in Germany. The thing is that it wasn't really your 10 year of self that decided which way you wanted to go, it was a decision made by your parents and teachers according to your performance at school up to that point. If you were bad at maths and other subjects you were predestined to go to Hauptschule which then made it very very difficult for you to ever enter into university. At the same time Hauptschule gave you one opportunity no other type of school had and that was leaning actual life skills. Depending on the school you would learn how to work with wood, cook, do small repair works, write an application, do your taxes and so on - which some people with a university degree in Germany don't really know how to do. The idea behind it was that if some kids were having trouble learning abstract things like maths or additional languages they would be left behind at schools that predominately wanted to prepare children for university. And while going to university is all good and nice, the actual economy is build on working class people/people who know how to work with their bodies and hands. Of course that's problematic, because it basically tells a 10 year old "you will never be as good as _these_ people. You are stupid. You can only go this way - or have to fight like hell to get on that other track currently unavailable for you" but at the same time that's only the case because university jobs are usually better payed and we live in a society were we think the person who tells other people what to do is worth more than the people who actually do the work. Now like I said, this is changing. For the past years there have been less and less Hauptschulen and more and more people are entering university which lead to a lack in personal in those jobs that actually keep society running and to compensate for that our universities started to turn jobs that were usually taken by Hauptschüler into university jobs minus the actual experience. It's a bit ludicrous at the moment. Having a university degree basically means nothing anymore but everyone is striving for one because it's what's expected of you and in the hope of being better off. It's a bit mad and I think when it comes to schools a mix of both 'worlds' for everyone would be good. Oh and Mein Kampf is not illegal to own. It's been made illegal to print in a lot of European countries but that hasn't prevented it from receiving audiobook versions on itunes marked "not suitable for children under 9 years". It's not worth reading, though - it reads like a very prolonged tantrum from a 15 year old. In 2016 an annotated edition was released that can be sold and bought from every ordinary book shop in the country. On a final note: How much all these countries "love" Germany can be seen every year during the ESC

[@einfachicke1417]

There are no bears living in the wild in Germany. However, we have wolves.

[@BlauWeissRot_1965]

We have Bears in MV!!!

[@eurovision.bavaria]

we have sometimes bears in bavaria

[@GTA.Sven.Andreas]

@@eurovision.bavaria but not for long 😂

[@eurovision.bavaria]

@@GTA.Sven.Andreas we had last year bears in the alps

[@Fillaaaaa]

@@GTA.Sven.Andreas RIP Problembär :O

[@chrisclaim5112]

You asked more times, why in Germany are so many Castles. If you look at a map from approx 1850, you could see over 40 regional bigger and smallest Kingdoms, duchies, principalities, counties. And any Leader would show, "I am strong, powerful, rich etc." so in all parts of the present Germany you find Castels, Monumenst etc. There has only been a German state since 1871. It took centuries for us Germans to pull ourselves together into a, into ONE state.

[@dyrL90]

I am 33, from Bavaria and i never ever had to deal with a single tornado whatsoever. Just a few really heavy storms but no actual tornado. So idk where this info is coming from.

[@NeonJJ_195]

We have occasional Windhosen here in rlp

[@robertgieseler1220]

High German is the official German language version told in schools throughout th country. "Auf Wiedersehen" (meaning something like "looking forward to see you again") is High German. Therefore, if you use that phrase, everybody everywhere in Germany will understand you. "Tschüss" ("Bye") also is intelligible everywhere.

[@CobraChicken101]

Pretty soon " High German" may have another additional meaning 😂. Well done Germany. ✌️❤️

[@emmacarstairs5214]

8:22 beer is always made with yeast bust it is filtered out afterwards

[@Ati-MarcusS]

Greetings from Germany ,Rhinland,the Hunsrück Region "near" the Mosel River

[@Just_Otaku-b1s]

Small reminder, you can speak any kind of german in any state because we all know what it means, most of the young people can also speak english, just watch out for the older generations

[@dontimotedelaplantxa7426]

bears aren't actually living here. some years ago a sloveno-italian bear migrated via austria into bavaria and was shot soon after. and a couple of times italo-austrian bears paid a short visit to bavaria. that's all there is about bears in germany and it's all limited to a very tiny bit of mountains at the very edge of germany.

[@dontimotedelaplantxa7426]

we've got some (I think) 1500-2000 wolves with their number constantly growing and their population reclaiming more and more of the country's surface

[@dontimotedelaplantxa7426]

It's actually the school, which, based on your grades, gives you a recomendation about which of the three types of schools you might most probably fit in/be capable of attending successfully

[@levync2140]

09:51 is so real

[@elmarwinkler6335]

This is carnevall of olden times, like around 1,000 years old. It was invented to chase away winter and the evil spirits by wearing those costumes. Some of those costumes are hundreds of years old, a family heirloom.

[@skylinwinter5970]

12:20 that’s Fasnet. It’s like carnival but less about drinking and more about culture. They are wearing costumes of their local fairytales, mostly types of devils or witches

[@MysteryR23]

A channel with geography in the name and the drew the border between Baden-Württemberg and Bayern wrong 1:11 😭

[@phoe8523]

The German school system worked well until they messed with it. Now, parents can decide which school the kids enter, leading to overcrowded first and second-grade gymnasiums and traumatized kids due to the high workload. If a student over- or underperforms, they still can switch to another school.

[@o.nimations4610]

No Tornados only ,high winds😂

[@Qiunell]

if you are a white brit chances are your ancestry roots back to the germanic angles, saxons or frisians raiders. so you could very well have some viking blood in you aswell haha

[@Sivertop]

the valhalla thing btw..back in the day there were german clans that had the same god´s as the vikings (different names same person´s) before they even knew about vikings, thats why but most germans dont even know that because christianity basically got rid of that history and nowadays those old god´s are also connected with neo-nazis despite those two having nothing to do with each other, sad about the "Auf Wiedersehen" is Hochdeutsch, mostly Hochdeutsch (High-German) can be understood by every german

[@melpim69]

15:35 ... yeah, this was a Problem. Since 16 years the teacher has no more influence and power for this decission!

[@kess-sz3uy]

15:27 in Germany it kinda depends on your grades and they switch school at the age of twelve not ten

[@Iamtruerevelation]

1. 3000 Brot Sorten 2. Keine Tornados in dem Sinne windhosen. 3. Keine Bären dafür wölfe. You welcome

[@frankk1992]

15:38 actually you will barely decide it. You get a recommandation of your elemenetery school based on your grades. (skilled in certain aspects means literally: you suck at most things) You can still decide to apply for a higher type of school though.

[@getoffthemilk6872]

The Hessians came to America and the central portion of Texas has a huge German influence to it.

[@tammyleatherman1897]

I remember when the wall came down! In the 80s

[@melsamee1580]

I remember David Hasselhoff singing.

[@_A_q_u_a_]

For the bear question: If Its black Fight Back If Its Brown lay down

[@rimyneko5299]

if it's white, good night :)

[@MicahMann]

“wars wars battles battles…” 😂

[@BlauWeissRot_1965]

creaded by his nation with is jew friend jewSA. 😅

[@erichsuft6595]

Yeah it is a good description of European (not only German) history ;)

[@adamlubieniecki]

@@erichsuft6595 ask Poland XD

[@gehtdichnixan3200]

@@erichsuft6595 history anywhere

[@Microtubui]

the schoolsystem is open. so if you finish so lower school good you can go to the next one. you not have to decide @10^^ but if it is clear the kid is not ha university kind of kid it is better to send him to the lower school there he will have better chancen for good grades. changing is everytime possible

[@steffent.6477]

Yeah, especially northern germany gains so much electricity through green energy (lots of Wind there^^) that we could supply the southern parts too. But our power cables are so limited that it would be too expensive. So the north produces a surplus of electricity but the south still buys it from our neighbors...

[@Tabitha73TS]

Yes, there are 30-60 tornados on average per year.

[@Wise_picknick]

13:00 u still can say any of those with people understanding but theyll just know ur not from there

[@arnodobler1096]

Swabian-Alemannic Fasnet (Carnival)

[@crystal_crows_circle]

if you would say "auf wiedersehen" in any part of the country....believe me...they all understand what it means no worries :)

[@melpim69]

6:50 "fo'os"

[@crystal_crows_circle]

i decided to go to gymnasium at an age of ten, yesssss

[@Arsenic71]

"Mein Kampf" is not per-se illegal. Annotated versions are available. Also, it is not (!!) illegal to sing the first and second verse of the Deutschlandlied (the 3rd verse is today's national anthem). Even many Germans get that wrong. Actually the Deutschlandlied is more of a drinking song than anything else because it mentions German wine, German women etc.

[@Peter_Cetera]

If you want to see more of german landscapes, look at this: "This is Germany" kzbin.info/www/bejne/Zme8p4GGdqllosk and turn on subtitles where the locations are shown. It´s EPIC!

[@newnyu7763]

7:28 Its over 3.000 types of bread acctually. He messed that up a little.

[@newnyu7763]

And there are way more kinds of sausages, too

[@saschaschneider9157]

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor roman nor an empire. BTW: The most wanted Bread is: "This one!" 😁

[@melsamee1580]

No, that one!

[@mickypescatore9656]

Hi, Lewis! "Auf Wiedersehen" is formally.

[@Loovalee]

KUKUclocks are Baden-Württhemberg, not Bavaria!

[@werttershans457]

I've never heard that "Pfiat di Gott"

[@Resomius]

15:33 How to decide at 10? You don´t. You can´t as a 10 year old. You will mostly decide on base of your grades. If you very good you usalle go to the Gymnasium where you learn a third or forth language and will be trimmed towards University till grade 12. But If you complete grade 10 you will automaticly get a Middle Grade / Realschule Graduation. And many pupils also fall down a step even before. Basicly if your parents think you are the most smartest kid on earth they will pressure you into gymnasium just to break under the pressure 2 years later and end up as a good middle ground pupil. Realschule is realy just the middle way for most stuff and you have still all paths open after completing it. Hauptschule leaves most of the higher stuff out and focuses on Crafts and handiwork. But after comnpleting it after 8 years you can still add onto it and get a higher Graduation. The paths stay open but it would hurt nobody if the split would happen later when the pupils actually have the abbiltiy to decide what they want.

[@itzdijanamsp]

Nice I See my hometown in 12:32

[@TheMrBusty]

Its 3000 not 300 types of bread. Goggle!. promise.

[@jackgrober7877]

My father's side is from Germany.

[@milenavo1081]

More than 3000 sorts of bread

[@hannesmayer3716]

Germany was split into two states for 40 years (1949-1989), but the Berlin Wall existed for "only" 28 years (1961-1989). And when I think about the fact that I grew up in West-Berlin when the wall was still there, and that's now 35 years ago that it came down, I feel old... And no, in Germany aren't wild bears. You only find them in zoos, and on coat of arms...

[@crystal_crows_circle]

Home is home...

[@DANIELOlsen-e8i]

The Christian carnival is closely linked to the 40-day period of fasting in preparation for Easter. This is already clear from the name, because the word "Fastnacht" means the "night before fasting" or the period before the start of Lent. Carnival lasts six days - from Thursday to Ash Wednesday. But the historical origins of carnival are complex. On the one hand, different names for one and the same festival have emerged over the years: Fasching, Fassenacht, Fasnet, Fastabend, Karneval, etc. In addition, regional differences in names, periods and customs have developed, although the basic principle has remained the same: regardless of position or status, all people are on the same level during this time, drinking, eating and celebrating together in the last days before Lent. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schw%C3%A4bisch-alemannische_Fastnacht#Urspr%C3%BCnge_in_Mittelalter_und_Fr%C3%BCher_Neuzeit Use goggle translate :o)

[@ursupator1]

Wolf and Schakal.

[@eXpG_Harlock]

Fun fact english is a west germanic language.

[@revgurley]

I thought you did The Fat Electrician's Berlin Air Lift video? If not, it'll help explain the political and geographical issues of the time. And yes, it was closer to 30 years for the Berlin Wall. Built in 1961. I remember when it came down in 1989. It was a world-wide party.

[@bertram5798]

19:35 GB not mentioned. Makes sense after the brexit. Sad.

[@DesMessersSchneide]

Im pretty sure lower saxony is lower than saxony. Lower as in height.

[@mahinschatz]

Not Yeast! He missed barley.

[@felixsamurai4592]

my english is not that good so i try to say it easy an short. Valhalla is not only nordic, its germanic Mythologie. The Hostrycs are sure we alle came from a Culture that named the Kelten. Central Europe is realy close in the past in form of cultures an speak. With old german dialects u can understand some thing in the nordic and u can read some old english too, cause english also cames from an old germanic speak. later it get alot of danish influnces and later also french influcens but the base came from the sachsen laer called the angelsachsen.

[@peterpfeifer7250]

But since the 01.04.2024 we can Take 25g Dope with us :D

[@Spokavriel]

Your worried about the bear, but you should really fear the boar. They are Vicious if not fully murderous and all can run faster than you. Romani you might have an easier time thinking of as Gypsy that in the 70s got declared a derogatory term for the nomadic group. High German is used everywhere its just showing your not a local still using it.

[@schotterman46]

einstein was burn in ulm

[@melaniegeisbe5223]

He is 'born' in Ulm, not 'burn' Zu seinem Glück wurde er von den Deutschen nicht verbrannt, sondern auf Wunsch ausgebürgert. Er nach Amerika ausgewandert.

[@Alina_the_Hedgehog]

A typical German stereotype: Germans like watching videos of other people teaching international audiences about Germany (and reaction videos to those educational videos ;-) ). Even Germans argue about the German language and dialects, especially culinary vocabulary, in my experience (Ich bin Ossi, bei mir heißt es Pfannkuchen, nicht Berliner!). We also criticize our own education system a lot, as well as differences between East and West Germany and sustainability (if you want to talk about politics in Germany: just don't). And then there are some German-speaking people on the Internet who argue about dubbing, since many native German speakers absolutely hate German dubbing, for some reason, while many international viewers are kind of impressed by it, for example the German rendition of the first One Piece opening. I love German dubbing and the German language, but I don't like what many people from my generation and younger ones are doing to it, but discussing that would go too far, so let me finish by just saying that this is another one of the many things Germans argue about when it comes to their own country, culture and people.

[@Talkshowhorse_Echna]

For the school part. The three school types are building up on eacht other. So if you want to get a higher edjucation, you can add the last years of the higher school type or change during your time in school. You can also change done if you started higher than you are capable to manage. So its not a fixed choice, but after the 4th grade when you can decide for the first time, your school will give you recomendations to whats fitting you best. For example I went throu "Realschule" the middle type and after I was done added 3 years at the "Gymnasium" highest type and now I have a qualification from both.

[@mapau9750]

Neuschwanstein, we’ll no, it is not like Disney but the other way round: Disney copied Neuschwanstein. It’s so funny hearing Americans when they walk through our historic towns saying that they look like Disneyland… because, no, Disneyland is a copy of the real thing here. I‘ve been to Disney World in Florida. Practically everything is a copy of someplace in Europe.

[@elisabethforsberg9027]

They look what skills the child has when they Are ten,if the parents want,so they nuture that😊

[@taniacw7015]

Einstein=🐐 and German

[@TheGovernorsJester]

I think that it would be awesome if you could check out music from other countries on this channel, because art and music showcases a country's culture too. I suggest it because Germany has some awesome music tbh. Also, my great grandfather and his family came to America from Germany, so I am one of those 30% I guess lol

[@chakra7100]

You said ""Auf Wiedersehen" very good ;-)

[@matthewrandom4523]

Here's the perfect music video pointing out the bad parts of my German homeland, made by Rammstein - Deutschland kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJa0fmSZYr12esU Don't forget to activate the English subtitles.

[@evilinbewer4636]

wo sin meine schaben🤙🏻

[@skylinwinter5970]

13:20 Hochdeutsch (high German) is understood everywhere

[@Harzer-Roller]

We don’t have Bears in Germany!

[@cp368productions2]

Dude, HOW? How did you not learn about the Berlin Wall in school? I need someone from England to send me some UK textbooks because this is just nuts that almost all history is not taught in the UK. The Berlin Wall is a major point in US curriculum. Of course President Reagan did have a hand in getting it torn down but still that's a major historical event that anyone should know. As for German descent, I am. One of the families I descended from were Mueller's from Baden Baden, landed at Castle Garden in 1860, fought in the Civil War and ended up in Bath, NY eventually as the Miller family. it's the youngest American line I have, everyone else is 17th Century Dutch, Irish or English.

[@michaausleipzig]

Uhmm ... Reagan had exactly zero hand in getting the wall torn down. We tore it down. And we didn't need some former actor to tell us what to do. Do US textbooks really link Reagan to the wall?