Germany Explained!

Germany is mentioned so much in pop culture and politics that you might think that it's one of the countries you know the most about. But let's face it, 99% of that information is about World War II, beer, and lederhosen
Unfortunately, since there is so much more to "Deutschland" - as the local populace calls it. Hence, here are the most important facts about Germany that you were missing.
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[@m.hoffman2889]

I bet 70% of the viewers of this vid are Germans checking if you got all the details right

[@hansmeyer7225]

That’s right

[@alex-hh2qm]

Yea

[@uhbaoifuhoiafj456]

Yep and they are not right. Germany wasnt the agressor in WW1. Berlin is definitly not the culture center of Germany (most citizens despise this city). And finally: Bretzels, Sauerkraut and the Oktoberfest are South-German (North-Germans dont care about that).

[@rimazu3418]

Jo

[@user-et6cr6qd8v]

no im austrian 😂

[@boernsnnn]

Letting that Lederhosen-dude dance while showing Berlin-Pictures is somehow like letting the cowboy from Texas dance in the city of Boston, Massachusetts up north. In fact, west-german culture in North Rhine Westphalia is more like in the Netherlands, in the state of Brandenburg you'll find many influences from Czechs and Poles, up north in Schleswig-Holstein you could wrongly assume that you are in Denmark and eventually southern Bavaria you could easy pass as an Austrian. German cultures are much more than just Lederhosen, Bratwurst and beer. In case someone is wondering why there is that image of Germany in the first place: Because after WWII, US-Troops stayed mainly in southern-Germany, e.g. Bavaria and reported the south-German culture back home to their relatives. If - for example - the US would have gotten the northern parts of germany after war, we would hear about "Strandkörbe" "Rote Grütze", windmills and "Moin" in about every Germany related KZbin-Video.

[@srcuso]

i mean, beer is a culture everywhere in germany... 😂

[@dirkvonhoegen5365]

5:54: Thank you for showing the cathedral of my home town Aachen.

[@theaverageenjoyer9364]

Idk if you are german but you nailed it perfectly. Here in Rhineland-Palatinate (damn i hate the englisch name xd) we had some US-Troops as well. But not as many. In a diffrent universe it would be Vineyards, Schnitzel, Castles and "Gude" maybe you can throw in a "Shobbe" as well. XD Lets see who knows what a "Shobbe" is. 😁

[@HolgerJakobs]

​@@srcusoBut the types of beer vary vastly, even between Düsseldorf and Köln, both on the river Rhein, just som 40km apart.

[@jfrancobelge]

@@theaverageenjoyer9364 As a neighbor of Rheinland-Pfalz (Belgian Ardennes, 30 minute drive to the German border), I visit the Eifel and the Mosel at least twice each year. Like many people, I assume, I love Bernkastel-Kues and Cochem. For easy, short day trips I like the area around the village of Schönecken in the Eifel - only 50 kms from home. For me there seems to be a bit of Latin culture in your Land, especially in the Mosel area (because of the vineyards?). In addition, as a French speaker who's originally learned "standard" German in school (many years ago), I find the local brand of German easier to understand than in other Länder; or is it only because I got used to it as I regularly go there - and the German speakers of Ostbelgien are just next door? Anyway, I've been to other parts of Germany and globally enjoyed them, but I just love Rheinland-Pfalz.

[@XtremeStormGhost]

I see the effort you put in this video. And in general this is a great video giving a good summary of Germany. However there is one thing I am missing here. Everything from Lederhosen, Bratwurst, Sauerkraut, Schnitzel, Bretzel (yes, that one of the German spellings of pretzels), Oktoberfest and so on, hardly belongs to German tradition. This mostly is Bavarian or in general southern German. Culture around Germany differs a lot in many ways. A someone from northern Germany being associated internationally with Bavarian culture is a little bit like an someone from Texas being obsessed with Sasquatch and Hockey an giving someone from Minnesota a headline „Florida man…“ style.

[@bluepiretfox8330]

Yes I am from Baden-Württemberg and we don't celebrate Oktoberfest and the agsent of German is also different depending on where you are

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

Yeah it's fucking annoying to have that label when most of us don't have this as part of our culture. It's really just a small part of German culture in one state of Germany and we have 16 of those. We are all very different.

[@dorderre]

@@DieAlteistwiederda Agree. The various regions in Germany had over a millennium of history and traditions before the idea of a united Germany was even born. And now foreigners all over the world think that the traditions and culture of just a small part of this speaks for the entire country. It's so frustrating to have to keep telling people this and to see how the culture of all the other states gets completely ignored.

[@AquaWellness_]

Wie jeder denkt Bayern sei Deutschland 💀

[@mnk9073]

@@dorderre The Prussians may have shaped the united German state but the Bavarians have shaped it's culture (at least for the foreigners).

[@popelgruner595]

Yeah, just one thing. Germany has the second largest population in Europe. After Russia. Turkeys tiny part that is on the European continent only counts for roughly 10 million people.

[@jonathanoderso]

well thought 🤗👍

[@51pinn]

10 million in the european part of Turkey and another 10 million spread over all european countries, more than 4 million in Germany.

[@MaximusDecimusMeridius01]

@@51pinn they still live in germany and are German citizens. Its not about the natuonality but about the Population density.

[@Zero-ef2cr]

In this context, Russia is not located in Europe as well, most of Russia belongs to the Asian continent. Russia is not located in Europe both culturally and geographically, that a small part of the country placed in EU, makes not the whole country european.

[@popelgruner595]

@@Zero-ef2cr You realize that about 80% of the Russian population lives in the European part of the country? That means that in each case the Russian population is higher than the German one. And as I stated before the EUROPEAN part of Turkey only counts for a few million people. Can you spot the difference?

[@Faolan03]

7:44 no, germany wasn't the aggressor in the first one, that should be common knowledge by now, it just had to accept the war guilt in the peace treaty because it lost

[@frankwilliamabagnalejunior4786]

Thank you

[@malean2997]

Yes and no. Germany did declare war on both Russia and France, although we weren't the only aggressor the German Empire did contribute to the beginning of the Great War a lot. In the peace treaty Germany had to take full blame for what happened, which was a little unfair as many different events led to the start of all that and not just german hunger for war.

[@a.r.stellmacher8709]

@@malean2997 please read (page 257/258), book ‘Henry White: thirty years of American diplomacy’, by Allan Nevins, New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1930. On page 257/258 you will read something shocking. All I can tell you is that Germany never started WW2. You read p. 257/258 and you know who really was/is responsible for WW2.

[@Arcaryon]

@@malean2997 Imperial Russia was backing the enemies of Austria-Hungary, a trusted ally of the emperor, France was still quote revanchist due to the defeat under Napoleon III - a declaration of war is not necessarily the beginning of a conflict.

[@uhbaoifuhoiafj456]

@@malean2997 Austria Hungary declared War on Russia. Because of that the whole Entente (Russia, France, British Empire) declared war on Austria-Hungary. After that Austria Hungary asked Germany for help and they were stupid enough to join. How was Germany the agressor?

[@feurigessiegelstuck233]

Though the part about 66% christian might be a little missleading, as most germans would probably say, that they are "culturaly christian" (you know celebrating holidays like christmas or easter). But when asked about their true believes, most would probably answer that they don't believe in god.

[@uhbaoifuhoiafj456]

Culuraly christians? Then as good as every atheis in Germany would be a cultural christian. I dont know a single atheist who is not celebrating easter or christmas. The numbers are accurate because only people who actually pay the church-tax are considered offcialy christian. However the 66% is old. Alot of christians left the church in the recent years.

[@Astromegalul]

@@uhbaoifuhoiafj456 Well there are People Like me who Celebrate Christmas, but not as the Birth Day of Jesus, but as a "Celebration of Love" in Germany we also call Christmas the "Fest der Liebe" (Celebration of Love). Also nearly Everyone is by birth part of the Church and it cost Money to leave the Church, so nearly every Person under 18 is part of the Church, even tho most don't want to be part of it, but simply can't afford to leave

[@talunae.8924]

I've always called it "Christian by paper". By that, I mean people who don't strictly believe in God, but are Christian because they were baptised as children and for whatever reason never leave church. Might be because the paperwork is too much of a hassle, or because they don't care, or because they work with a Christian employer. Those people definitely wouldn't have joined church on their own accord, if their parents hadn't deemed it necessary for them at such a young age.

[@feurigessiegelstuck233]

@@talunae.8924 That actually sums it up pretty well

[@katalinamagna5145]

completely agree. I know many of my fellow German friends who step out of church once they have to pay church tax or are just christian because they were baptised as an infant but haven't visited a church in more than 10 years.

[@therealkreatief]

important note: the anthem is not the "Deutschlandlied". its only the third verse of the song. please dont mix that up, because the first verse is strongly connected to the third reich. and nobody calls it Deutschlandlied. we only say "Nationalhymne", which just means national anthem.

[@Arcaryon]

It’s connected to the third however, the Nzs also wanted to abuse all kind of history for their purposes, for example, the medieval knight and castle culture. In practice, it has nothing to do with them because it was about the unification and that’s evident in the actual verses when looking at their historical context. Above all is, as we all know, not about superiority but the desire for unity above all other goals.

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

As a German, i'd like to note here that part of our reputation for engineering things just better than everyone else is the apprenticeship system that is practiced in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and nowhere else, really. You know how companies always seem to be asking you for 3 years experience as a beginner? Yeah, you don't have that in Germany. In Germany, these 3 years of experience are part of a standardized vocational education that is recognized and formalized by the state (Though you'll usually get that experience in your average company), and this apprenticeship has standardized contents, including a country-wide final exam. Not only that, this education will often take place both at a company and in a vocational school at the same time. This is a remnant of the guild system that used to be common place in Germany. Now, the guilds were this entity throughout the medieval age where workers in each city would organize. The guild would do things like set the value of certain goods, implement standards by which to abide, such as regarding training of apprentices, or quality of goods, and enforce these things, too. If you got a complete education, you would receive an earring that marked you as a member of this guild. If you then broke the rules (such as, for instance, ripping someone off), expulsion would mean that, besides the fact that you were no longer allowed to practice that job, a member of the guild would rip this ring out of your ear, thus creating a scar that marked you as untrustworthy. It is thought that the word "Schlitzohr" (Slit ear) derives from this practice. Of course, most of these practices have all but died out by now, but the standardized education aspect has carried on into the modern age. And it's not just engineering related things either. Anything from a carpenter to a hairdresser to even certain office jobs comes with this kind of education (though you don't need to have these educations to be allowed to practice these jobs per se, but have fun finding an employer who will pick a self taught technical drawer over one with official, state-sanctioned qualifications)

[@CA999]

Thank you for that post. It's a feature that has been lost in my view in many of the Anglo American countries. Their economic and social decline is in part due to that. It's just all certificate courses and no mentoring.

[@creeerik]

Very nice video :) However my pride as a dutch citizen compells me to complain that there is a small error: at 7:07 they say "the dutch" when it should be "the germans". Fun fact in the netherlands we call germany "Duitsland" which is linguistically very similar to "Deutschland".

[@nick3805]

And "Dutch" roots from "deutsch" and is only the word for things from the Netherlands because people from UK seem a bit confused.

[@riccardodececco4404]

historically the correct English word for Germans is Dutch actually. In the US this older understanding persists ("Pennsylvania Dutch"). Only around 1700 the English started to use "Dutch" exclusively for Nederlanders, causing a profound confusing until today. The proper English term for Germany should be Dutchland, wich of course links up closely with "Deutschland". This English confusion also causes today their underdeveloped capability of distinguishing between modern Germans (Deutsche) and Germanic tribes (Germanen).

[@madrooky1398]

@@riccardodececco4404 i read somewhere, which i cannot find anymore right now, that dutch actually comes from frisian tribes, and deutsch or duits was a general term for people which has transformed. So Deutschland would be more like Peoplesland since the term dutch is not an actual english word that is being used nowadays, except as for the people from the netherlands. But its probably debatable what i am saying and without the sources its hard to make that point.

[@songohan4051]

And then they wrote "Deutshcland" instead of the correct "deutschland" ...

[@riccardodececco4404]

@@madrooky1398 "deutsch" or "dutch" or "dütsch" and "ditsch" (and other dialect variants) derives from "tiutisk" or "teodiska". By this the Franks (ruling elite in former Gaul then "Francia") called their Germanic cousins beyond the Rhine, meaning: "the people speaking the people´s language" (die Volkssprachigen) - because the Franks had by then switched to early French/Latin - this term was later taken up by the Italians who addressed the medieval Germans as "tedesco" - also in order to denounce their claim to be inheritors of Rome with titles like "Roman King" and "Roman Emperor". This was used then by the Germans themselves in the high middle ages as "teutsch" and calling the territories of the former East Francian Kingdom now also "German Kingdom" (regnum Teutonicum, or regnum teutonicorum), and the territories alternatively also "teutsche Lande" (the German lands). in the 16th century the term "teutsche Lande" transformed then simply in "Teutschland". By the 2nd half of the 17th century all the territories of the Holy Roman Empire were synonymously called "Teutschland").

[@IntyMichael]

Something about technology from Germany: The service module of the Orion space ship which just reached the moon was built at Airbus in Bremen.

[@KitsuneHB]

And they built the most modern government plane ("Konrad Adenauer") in the world - the german "Air Force One".

[@derdude6214]

A comment on the religion part. I don't know how it's handled in other countries but most people I know are just to lazy to officially leave the church. In the small around 5.000 people village I live in it's only the old people who are actually religious. Once you are 18 you can just go to your city Townhall and leave the church but that's a somewhat annoying burocratic process and it's never actually taught in school how you handle such official appointments. To anyone who actually read this: have a great day.

[@KiaraKitsune]

and you also need to pay 20-50 Euros if you want to leave the church, which is annoying

[@extazy9944]

also we dont have 66% christians but just over 50% (even if you count the many non religious ones aswell)

[@Astromegalul]

@@KiaraKitsune and impossible to pay for Students at School or University.

[@schlawyn3r418]

You have a great day too

[@marxel4444]

Most people are very religious. Geh mit Gott,aber GEH! Go with god but GO!

[@skuilt4833]

Awesome video! :) Just one small thing I noticed. Germany did not reunify after the Soviet Union broke down since the reunification was 1990 and the end of the SU was 1991. The GDR wasn't simply capable of being a country anymore, especially after the Berlin Wall came down in 89. It struggled before already but this was more or less the push over the edge I'd say.

[@DasWirdHykl]

Germany reunited BEFORE the Soviet Union fell apart!

[@exenderlloyd7750]

Germany still hasn't reunited

[@DasWirdHykl]

@@exenderlloyd7750 Why you say this?

[@nightscore]

1:52 thank u for using the city Heidelberg there! I m living a happy life here and I am glad that it gets at least a little bit of screentime in an international video. It’s a beautiful city with stunning nature and buildings :) I can recommend everyone to visit this city ❤ But for now have a nice day and great video 👍🏻

[@phoenix0477]

I lived in Düsseldorf NRW for 17 years, moved to Zaragoza in Spain in May this year. Although I do miss Düsseldorf this city could be its twin. One thing I will say is it is hard to make German friends as they keep their circles tight, but once you're in your in! I do miss, as I call it home, Köln, Essen and even the short ride to Holland. I miss the food to. The things I don't miss are Karneval and football, as I worked in the Altstadt. But other than that it was the bast place I've ever lived.

[@samuelsamenstrang6069]

oh yes, i feel with you. i was a bartender in düsseldorf in my young days. and football days and karneval were terrible.

[@samuelsamenstrang6069]

btw i lived there for 50 years and just moved to bavaria last year.

[@phoenix0477]

@@samuelsamenstrang6069 you might know me from Oreillys then??

[@samuelsamenstrang6069]

@@phoenix0477 maybe. maybe we spoke some decades ago. the world is small.

[@danielb.1000]

@@phoenix0477 o'reillys is a great bar! moved away three months ago to the netherlands, but used to go there some time ;)

[@vHindenburg]

The German currency before the introduction of the € was Deutsche Mark or Mark not Deutschmark. the E at the end of German words isnt silent. Turkey isnt in Europe, yes its capital is but culturally it is not European. Overall there is a fair ammount of small mistakes in this video, not a tradegy but should be looked into. Overall grade "satisfactory"

[@bergEXPERT]

The capital isnt istanbul, its ankara in the central... or am i wrong

[@vHindenburg]

@@bergEXPERT Oops yes its Ankara, was confusing it because it has been Konstantinopel.

[@DontPanick]

@@vHindenburg Well, the Republic of Turkey exists since 1923 and Ankara has always been the capital. Constantinople was the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

[@Skyl3t0n]

@@DontPanick Which is kinda cooler than turkey anyways

[@Arcaryon]

So, on Turkey - it’s Turkish. It’s not European, it’s not Arab but a lot of its population is heavily influenced by either the local Arabic states or the proximity with Europe. Case in point, Turkish immigration to Germany. Originally, the so called guest workers were recruited from the further eastern, rural areas and are / were as a result, significantly more conservative. While ever since the Erdogan regime began to crack down on local opposition, we have experienced an influx of more western ( geographically ) oriented Turks, who are much more closely associated with the traditional Turkish values relating to the founder Atatürk and as a result, a lot more European, despite of course mainly being Turkish. Of course, one can still not truly effectively categorise such a huge amount of people but overall, this is Turkey in a nutshell.

[@That_Onne_Guy]

This so amazing, when you post i immediately leave everything from my hand and start watching. The editing is so good and so is the explanation. Have to say, i would like a part 2 about germany or maybe an explanation about how the nato works. I know that’s not part of your plan but would love to see it sometime in the future. care and love and keep on going :)

[@CountriesExplained]

Wow! Thanks a lot for that lovely comment! Really appreciate it! 🙏😄

[@fabianreusch4870]

I hope you don't crash your car anytime soon, just bc they upload a video 🙏😂

[@bestfails5283]

I really liked the video, the only thimg that bugged me a little was that you said, that germany was the agressor in WW1 and two in WW2 of course, no discussion around that, but the first world war wasnt caused ba the germans, they were "forced" into it by a treaty they had with Östereich who got into a war

[@einLebenlangBayer]

Nice Video, but as a german I have to complain about the statemant that germany reunited after the dissolution of the soviet union. In fact the germans were in 1989 the first ones to protest against the socialism governance and even thought Germany reunited in 1990 the wall fell 1989. So you could say that the eastern Germany started the process of the dissolution of the soviet union. So Germany was actually one of the most important countries during the cold war

[@amainzergoesplaces568]

Not quite. The fight for freedom that ultimately led to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact was the Solidarnosc movement in Poland early in the 1980s. In April 89 Poland had its first free elections already and Hungary was the first country to open borders to the West in May 89. The Montagsdemos in Germany only picked up in September 89. It's still true that Germany got reunited before the SU fell apart late in 1991.

[@alle_namen_schon_vergeben708]

I liked that you were talking about the coast line. I see that very rarely in videos about Germany :)

[@petergrossenberger3703]

I LOVE how he is talking about different views of Germany and uses an footage of an Austrian "Schuhplatter" crew.

[@uliwehner]

makes perfect sense given the premise that many if not most americans think that bavaria is germany. Lederhosen, Bier, Brats, and Neuschwanstein. a juxtaposition of the stereotype and the reality of germany having beaches, and people who can't understand bavarians or swabians without subtitles :)

[@petergrossenberger3703]

@@uliwehner somehow it makes sense, but I guess he didnt make this "mistake" on purpose. 18th province of GER is AUT anyways 😅

[@nein236]

@@uliwehner Der Amerikaner war Hauptsächlich in Bayern stationiert. Daher die ganzen Stereotypen. Und die Ösis sind auch Deutsche, nur nicht teil dieses Staates.

[@Criskross98]

or how he says "the industrial lands in the west" but shows a picture of Hamburg.

[@petergrossenberger3703]

​@@Criskross98 TECHNICALLY in the west ^^

[@Cadfael007]

I live in the West, the "Upper Lower Rhine Area" (left side of the River Rhine, North of Cologne). This region has nothung to do with South, North or East. It's a bit like the Netherlands - and besides Freiburg in the South, this is the warmest area of Germany. "Xou can see who comes for a cup of coffee tomorrow." A flat, rural area with forrests and picturesque small cities and towns.

[@pppphillip]

Grüße an den Niederrhein aus der Landeshauptstadt😂

[@monkey_8227]

jo hier um Oldenburg ist es ähnlich, nur ist es hier eher ähnlich zu den Friesischen Niederlande. Und anders als im Video dargestellt ist das Klima hier maritim, also milde Sommer und Winter. Ich weiß noch dieses Jahr, wo es im Osten teilweise 40°C waren, war es hier nur knapp über 20°C.

[@crazy5724]

Very nice video, really liked seeing this and enjoyed watching while beeing german myself. Im glad i discovered your channel trough that pls keep up the great work👍 Greatings from Berlin

[@CountriesExplained]

Thanks a lot! Really appreciate the comment! 😁👋

[@uhbaoifuhoiafj456]

So to clarifiy: Berlin is definitly not the cultural center of Germany. It is different in any kind of way from other German states. I know alot of guys who actually make jokes about citizens of Berlin not belonging to Germany. Berlin is full of foreigners, non german descendants and openminded citizens. Those traits are actually pretty rare and especially so in the south. Berlin culture doesnt represent the common German culture.

[@louisthehedgehog2005]

But there are a lot of openminded and tolerant people in other parts of Germany too.

[@indrinita]

@@louisthehedgehog2005 most of Germany outside a few large centres is pretty conservative and closed minded tbh. Basically once you step outside of places like Cologne/Bonn, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Leipzig and maybe Frankfurt, the rest of Germany is horrendous culture wise. Perhaps we can include some smaller centres such as Freiburg, but they are strictly exceptions. I can totally understand why he said that Berlin’s the cultural capital of Germany though, because without cities like Berlin, Germany would continue to remain in the 17th century with lots of effed up, retrograde societal views, as well as very little technological progress as well. It’s essentially a country of Luddites outside the centres I mentioned. With an aging population, these attitudes are only getting worse. That’s part of the reason why Nazis remain such a big problem here and they’re infiltrated into lots of big, important and powerful institutions. Anyone who says otherwise is trying to sell a lie or has their eyes firmly closed and that’s it. But there is very much a fantasy of a homogeneous society that many people here are holding onto and want to bring into fruition, even through terrorist and genocidal means if necessary.

[@louisthehedgehog2005]

@@indrinita Well, I‘m german too and I don‘t live in any place that you mentioned and I still feel very comfortable and don‘t have the impression that the people around me are not tolerant, but maybe that differs all around the country.

[@publicminx]

@uhbaoifuhoiaf: cultural center can have many meanings. if one looks at the Prussian time then it was the most influential power in Germany and shaped most of it. if one goes farer back then different states/cities show up like the Hanseatic League, cities like Frankfurt, Cologne and other citizen and/or residential cities. if one goes further in the past then cities like Aachen (the as kind of 'capital' considered city by Karl der Grosse (Carolus Magnus, sometimes WRONGLY named Charlemagne (no one with this name ever existed. thats just a later French localized name, wrongly copy-pasted by British/American historians). In Aachen something important happened what is represented by the Karolingian (again: based on 'KARL') Renaissance: upper-lower case letters, space between words, more interpunction. thats why most of the world writes like this! before that (also to save the expensive medium) there were just words one after the other without interruption. Other cities like Trier which was once one of the 4 capital cities of the Roman Empire (and one of the biggest cities in Europe with 75000 to 100000 people!) ...

[@veniger4175]

This is so amazing. As a german myself I love that this channel covered it so fast. Really love the channel.

[@CountriesExplained]

Thanks a lot! And glad you enjoyed the video 😄

[@Timo0469]

yup

[@MSordernature]

I really like the graphics, great video.

[@CountriesExplained]

Thanks a lot! 🙏

[@hewe0157]

8:00 "Perfectly engineered... well... anything." Proceeds to show trains in the background

[@Grothgerek]

6:01 I'm not sure if this numbers are correct. Because Germany is one of the countries with the most unaffliated people in europe (and the world). Its mathematically very unlikely, given that east germany has roughly 1/5 of germany's population, but has barely any religious people. This would mean, that west germany at best can only have around 10% non religious people, which would be extremly low on european standard.

[@Pascal_Mueller]

German wiki says 42% of German people are unaffiliated

[@dalob112]

I got hung up on that a bit as well but i suspect that it might come from people considering themselves "Unaffiliated" but nominally still having a recognized Religion on their Records (didn't officially leave the church). That would cause official numbers to be higher then actual numbers

[@hmvollbanane1259]

Non baptized probably as everyone I know in my region is baptized (mostly catholic with some protestant families that were moved here after the war), though hardly anyone is religious or attends church

[@Arcaryon]

The thing is that, like myself, a lot of of us are ( I will borrow this one from a previous comment ) religious culturally. We do not go to church regularly or pray but we celebrate many Christian holidays like Christmas on the 24th December, Saint Martins day on the the 11th November, Saint Nicolas on the 6th December and of course Easter - even if we are not at all religious otherwise. According to the website Statista; roughly 40% of the population is self declared as faithful with every 5th praying regularly. Even if the numbers are not totally correct, the rough idea is true. The core reason for this trend being originally the two lost world wars, today many other factors come together. Also interesting to note - very roughly ( plus/minus half a million ) 4 million Germans are of a muslim faith.

[@nottherealChickenJoe]

I could also swear there was a study this year stating that less than half the population is a member of a christian church nowadays. Wieso hat also die Kirche nochmal diesen Sonderstand in Deutschland? Haha

[@HenriCore]

Fun fact: the estonians and Finns call germany saksamaa and saksa

[@DiskusGames]

Yeah, named after the Saxons, who were the closest German people to the Baltics. Same with the French word for Germany, Allemagne, being derived from the Alemanni people.

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

I am a Saksa 🙋‍♂

[@justlikejones]

@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 Ma olen sakslane.

[@Skyl3t0n]

Well the croatians call germans officially njemci but colloquially they call them svabi (pronounced shwaby) coming from swabian or schwaben in german. And yes you guessed it, it's a region in southern germany. They are always so surprised when I tell them that not all germans are swabians 😂

[@anjamo2307]

and the Hungarians call it Németh

[@bastian6625]

Good content, but sometimes a bit to general (even if I know it is tricky to cover everything in 8 minutes). But for instance, Germany does not have a continental climate per se. Yes, in some areas (especially east) the continental impact dominates, but in most of the country it is actually the oceanic impact, while other areas with e.g. sub-mediterranean climates (e.g. southwest) exist as well.

[@honkytonk4465]

the climate thing is not just too general it's blatantly false

[@pr3zzy798]

Ayee, i like the editing :))

[@CountriesExplained]

🙌😄

[@Hochleistungslusche]

Holy crap, I don't comment or like videos that often because I'm a lazy bum. But this is so well done. I'm german myself and your video is very accurate with a lot of attention to detail. But not only that, the quality is amazing. I'm glad the KZbin algorithm suggested your channel. Left a sub and can't wait for more. Keep up the good work!

[@CountriesExplained]

Comments like that REALLY put a smile on my face! Thanks a lot 🙌

[@Simon-sw4ov]

The number of christians was very outdated

[@beglubbttv]

Germany was the aggressor in WW1? Ok 🤔

[@KaiHenningsen]

Well, in WW II the leader of Germany came from the same nation that was the aggressor in WW I. Better?🤨

[@vHindenburg]

Yes, Germany escalated the war by declaring war on France and marching through Belgium, therefore pulling the Brits into it, but it started with Austrians invading Serbia and the Russian mobilizing.

[@fabianmcgrane3238]

@@vHindenburg it started because the serbian killed the austrian prince! ^^

[@jiustfoudavid2024]

error at 8:15 the anthem of gemany is called the anthem of germany and its the 3vers of the "deutschlandlied"

[@alex-hh2qm]

That was a more than decent video, thanks for that. Greetings from Germany ✌️

[@CountriesExplained]

Thank you for watching! 🙌

[@monkey_8227]

If you ever visit northern germany, you will see 0 stereotypes of our country. All these Lederhosen Oktoberfest Weißwurst things are only from Bavaria for example.

[@Name-yf6xp]

2:41 actually when talking about germany, using north/south instead of up/down is very important The elavation goes up as you go south in germany, thus for example Upper bavaria is south-west of lower bavaria, or lower saxony is north-west of saxony

[@TheSolvenceny]

Good Video

[@fckingunfair]

8:15 the national anthem is actually only the third stanza of the "Deutschlandlied" as the first two were banned after the WW II

[@pasiv006]

at 8:03 when we see the car brands, i recognise the Brand Wiesmann, wich, sadly, doesnt exist anymore, it was founded in my Hometown, so im a bit happy to see it there^^

[@hmvollbanane1259]

What is missing is that we are indeed a federation of different people. E.g. i live in the Rhineland and here we have nothing to do with Berlin, to us Cologne is our cultural capital and the Dutch are closer related (and seen as such) than people from Saxony&Berlin or Bavaria. For the Bavarians in return Munich is their cultural capital and they are closer related to the Austrians than any other Germans, etc.

[@hmvollbanane1259]

E.g. all the examples of stereotypes you have given and even the music used is strictly Bavarian and/or Austrian and you won't find any of it e.g. in my region (besides Schnitzel, though the Austrians will hardly acknowledge our pork Schnitzel as actual Schnitzel). The south and especially Bavaria were occupied by the USA which is where that perception came from and since american media has by far the most reaching influence in the world it spread from there

[@Schmiddelwutz2000]

If you mention Essen and Dortmund you should know that these are part of the Ruhrgebiet (Ruhr Region). It is more or less one big metropole with more than 5 million inhabitants (NOT including Düsseldorf and Cologne). It is the most populated area in Germany and could be seen as the largest city since the single cities are geographically directly connected.

[@Red_Fox_Miro]

Vielen Dank für dein Video

[@the_engineer2345]

speaking of game of thrones... I still believe that some names of regions in the witcher universe are coming from a region in lower saxony: like "Verden" and Bremervoord" (Bremervoerde). These are small cities near Bremen.

[@KitsuneHB]

That was so funny to read. :D I live in this region. I was so often in Verden or Bremervörde. :D

[@nilesbutler8638]

That lederhosen guy slapping it to berlin tresor beats is just brilliant! 😂 I want a music video to expand on that theme!

[@KitsuneHB]

How a about some weird Berlin dudes dancing to bavarian ear-crimes? That would be more funny.

[@nilesbutler8638]

@@KitsuneHB I disagree. '"weird berlin dudes" are basically just weird city dudes you might find in every metropolis, and they will usually dance to anything once high enough. Just look at technoviking. My idea is much more specific, and has better zounds.

[@lillylauterbach244]

Great video, but the anthem isn’t called deutschland lied it is called Nationalhymne (national anthem) an the currency before the euro wasn’t the deutsch mark it was the Deutsche Mark (I no that is only one letter but it would be completely wrong grammar in Germany), and at the beginning you were great with separating Bavarian culture but the food that you said is traditionally German is mostly common in bavaria like the Bretzel. But to find food that is completely tradiotnally German is really hard because it differs a lot depending on in which Bundesland (state) or city you are. For example in Hamburg are Franzbrötchen a big thing and you can get them on any corner, there are even shops that only sell different types of Franzbrötchen. But when you are out of Hamburg and the rest of the north and north west like Schleswig-holstein and Niedersachsen it is really hard to buy them. Also I wouldn’t really say that Berlin ist like the town popular for art in general. I think from Berlin is mostly more modern art, while you have a lot of theaters and musicals in Hamburg. But great video

[@jakekoppe2111]

Very nice

[@CountriesExplained]

🙏😁

[@ynk1611]

Nice geographic breakdown, but culturally calling everything Lederhosen, Schnitzel and pretzels is wrong as that is mostly Bavarian. It's like calling "American culture" consisting of gunslinging cowboys. Southern German culture is mostly like you described, east German culture is more community centered with coffee culture and bakery, as well as heavy consumption of spirits. West German culture is quite diluted today because of the many immigrants from former German territories, but beer and carnaval seems to rank supreme there. North Germany is comparable to Danish and English culture in some sense because of the seafaring and herding culture, as well as tea and some weirdass food they have there.

[@KitsuneHB]

Okay, Labskaus is looking really weird but it's tasty! :D

[@quallejellyfish7413]

thanks for explaining my own country :D

[@BlackKyurem14]

All in all a great video, but there is something I would like to correct: Germany reunited before the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Also an interesting fact about the reunification: While the country fully and officially reunited in 1990, the reunification process actually began in 1989, the fall of the Berlin Wall being one of the most important, if not the most important event of that process.

[@dean.9731]

Germany was a big part of WW1 yes but it was definetly not the Aggresor that started it

[@Ainiria]

Fun fact: You can greatly confuse a German by saying "upwards" and "downwards" instead of north or south. Germans use these words, too, and some of us say "upwards" and mean "north" while others say the same and mean "south" - because you actually have to go up by going south because the terrain rises^^ This makes winters in south Germany also much colder and snowier than in the north.

[@niklasmorningstar4301]

Can you do New Zealand next?

[@Aero-]

Please do Switzerland or Australia

[@amisingh2366]

As a German, I have to say that this video presents a rather cartoonish version of Germany. I'd say that this video was not worth it. Great video editing skills though. Please put them to good use! Cheers.

[@titustaddhaustaddltentakel9987]

Great video enjoyed it, but the first world war was not started by Germany. in fact after the assassination of Sarajevo Germany had to back up their Alliance-partner Austria-Hungary against Serbia and actually predicted the first world war as a consequenz if the russian Zarr would interfere instead of calming France. Which, as we know didn't happen and thus it grew from a local crisis to a world war. Germany didn't start the first world war. They just had to stick to their alliance contract with Austria-Hungary. In fact the part that pushed it further was the ultimatum made by the austrian-hungarien council of ministers, which was impossible for serbia to fulfill. (I know that this is not in detail and lacks a lot of information. But it is enough for you all to get my point. Have a nice day everyone! ^^) (Edit: typo)

[@MrFreemanPolish]

And in Cold War there was West and East Germany from about 1950 West Germany and later was created East Germany

[@julonkrutor4649]

Just remamber: Bielefeld dose not exist.

[@crazymelon02]

me at 5:28 : uuh thats not germany. This is in Swizerland.

[@Nordanatolier55]

I‘m from South West Germany and I think here it is the most beautiful part of Germany.

[@Fabii2000]

I’m from South East Germany and I think here it is the most beautiful part of Germany.

[@henningbartels6245]

well, that just happens if you don't know any better and any other part.

[@era8840]

Danke ☺️

[@bastim1772]

5:26, 5:29 and 8:28 are not in Germany. The Ruinaulta, the Rhinefall and the Berner Oberland are in Switerland.

[@MetalGuitarTimo]

germany wasnt the aggressor in world war 1 ...

[@hyenalaughingmatter8103]

you will be shocked to hear it but also not in ww2

[@fabianmcgrane3238]

@@hyenalaughingmatter8103 WWI i could accept the fact that germany was helping his friend austria, but in WWII it were the Germans who Started invading other countrys, its not easy to accept that, but that was our fault^^

[@balazsszebeni9929]

Make a video of Hungary please!

[@nicolasblume1046]

Great video, but not entirely accurate: -Berlin is only the center of Germanys nightlife culture (especially Techno), not culture in general - the southwest near Freiburg actually gets the most sunlight

[@josepablitoaurar7051]

What they do in nightlife ?

[@Arcaryon]

@@josepablitoaurar7051 Dancing, drugs and depravity. I hear it’s pretty great if one is into all that. But to say that there is a specific German nightlife culture - I mean, for example the 5am morning Döner is certainly pretty German for a lot of our youth on the weekends but every country does something like that so I wouldn’t argue for a highly specific local culture in this regard. Case in point, drinking games are not exactly nationalised and borrow heavily from all sorts of places.

[@TheTpointer]

Are your numbers on the religious affilitations really up to date? I heard years ago that numbers of people leaving the church are rising and that the number of unaffiliated are the largest of the groups. Another important point: The german state collects church tax for the christian churches (rom. catholic and national protestant). So you might not be really religious but stay a payer of taxes and thus be counted into the christian group, because it gives different benefits like better job opportunities or other cultural benefits.

[@TheTpointer]

I looked it up: 51% are christian (26,7% catholic, 24,3% protestant), 3,5% are muslim and 4,8 are in other religious groups. The biggest group with 40,7% are non-affiliated. Still the majority is religious namly christian.

[@Fabii2000]

@@TheTpointer majority is Christian but the question is are they religious? I would say maybe 50% of these Christian’s are actually religious and not just Easter, Christmas and holiday celebraters.

[@rimazu3418]

Schwerin, the Capital from Mecklenburg Vorpommern 2:28

[@duckdeity9450]

4:19 Ah yes. I live in Food, Germany

[@indrinita]

“Cold and snowy winters” - uh, maybe a long time ago, but not for as long as I’ve been living here for the past decade.

[@paulus1828]

A video about Austria would be nice.

[@honkytonk4465]

that is fake information

[@paulus1828]

@@honkytonk4465 No, Austria is the beautifullest country from all around the world

[@honkytonk4465]

@@paulus1828 don't shout at me I need my safe space,now!!!!Just kidding,you've got a wildly underrated joke there

[@paulus1828]

@@honkytonk4465 I haven't done anything, I just said that a video about Austria would be nice, so you have no reason to be annoying

[@honkytonk4465]

@@paulus1828 das ist zum Glück nicht ernst gemeint

[@matthiasfranz4470]

The Swiss people will not appreciate that footage of their country is included in a video about Germany. The "Rheinfall" in Schaffhausen (5:30) and the mountains "Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau" (8:28, view from First) are Swiss and not German.

[@sepphero9639]

Did i hear correctly that you say 139 rain days per year in Berlin? Because if you do I'd really question your sources

[@CountriesExplained]

Weather-atlas.com 🌧🌂

[@saschahamburg8406]

for 8 minutes straight you just gave me the least amount of information possible

[@paul9151]

But in terms of population turkey Is located in Asia so I wouldn’t count turkey for the 2nd place in terms of population just because turkey has a relatively small landmass in Europe

[@zeeolifant77]

Wow. What a video!❤️

[@CountriesExplained]

Glad you liked it! 🙏😄

[@tharmashmeric1068]

You should have mentioned Bach before Bethoven.....but apart from that a good video.

[@moritzmuller4363]

Isn't the border with Austria also 817 kilometers long?

[@revoltingpeasantry8796]

Reasons for WW1 are too simplified.

[@jusen6761]

8:10 noone says deutsch Mark. We only call it D-Mark

[@DasNetzwerk]

LUL for putting Turkey on the map for europe and 30 seconds later excluding it from europe.

[@michelderechtemetternich5618]

Do Austria next oida

[@shahlabadel8628]

thanks, but you should do regions. this is too general.

[@derbe8647]

Gotta say this video ia pretty well done. (Still disagree with Germany being the aggressor in ww1. (Tho i guess thats how it officially is))

[@antonfuchs6525]

We were not the aggressor in the Great War

[@EzKrunchyPz]

You forgot the "Nord ostser Kanal", the biggest canal built by human hand😉

[@julianengels1352]

well we dutch people don't call germany deutshcland / deutschland or something we kan it duitsland wich is stil similar but not really the same

[@Arcaryon]

I mean, we call you Niederländer ( people who live in the low lands ) which is ultimately like calling Austrians Südländer (people who live in the southern lands ) or perhaps Hochländer ( people who in the highlands) - and the point is that we ultimately were so closely related for such a long time that, despite the significant eventually forming cultural and political differences, that you still call us by our own name using your local language to get a pretty close equivalent ( which is rare in Europe ) and we call you “people who live in a specific place ) which is noteworthy because we do not do that for any other country, Frankreich originates from Francia and literally means land of the Francs, Spanien from Hispania etc. - you are to us the people ( kind of like being part of the family ) who live in the low lands, despite the false notion of referring to you as Holländer.

[@julianengels1352]

@@Arcaryon precisely. You guys call us in a very similiar way as we call ourselves. We call our country nederland =niederland, netherland, low land And we call our people nederlanders. I don't think any other nation has a similiar way of naming our nation. Maybe the scandinavians or people from former dutch colonies

[@Arcaryon]

@@julianengels1352 #exHREmembermoment (holy Roman empire) :P

[@staigermann]

Great video, but as a German I habe to say we didn't started the first ww😂

[@nein236]

Technically speaking, we didnt even start the second world war, yes, we started a war with Poland, but a war with the west was chosen by the west. Hitler was devastated after hearing the western allies declared on him. (Not defending anyone)

[@thorstenweber9619]

5:30 the Rheinfall, which is Switzerland, just saying.

[@TheVaryox]

There's an error at 5:55. I don't know where you got this information, but actually in 2022 was the first time when the share of Christians dropped under 50%. Though this number is most likely still inflated, because many people are formal members of one of the two large Christian sects (Catholics or Protestants) due to tradition, while never practicing or even believing in their teachings.

[@Alpha-1-Operative-Ares-1]

Hey that was a picture from Heidelberg! Les goooo

[@OrkarIsberEstar]

2 things id like to correct 1) you wrote "Deutschland" wrong - not a big mistake but...im german. Also you might mention why the languages name germany different - allemagne is based on the tribe of the Allemanni that bordered france. Meanwily germany is based on protogermanic "spear men" which is what the romans heard germanic leaders shout on the battlefield and thus called the place germania. Tyskaland and Deutschland have the exact same origin (Tiuskland) and means simply "land of the people" 2) germany was NOT the aggressor in both world wars. It was in ww2. ww1 began as austrian civil war within their own borders, then russia illegally attacked austria to aid the revolution faction, and THEN germany followed its alliance with austria and attacked russia in turn, then the french attacked germany as they saw an opening and...you get the idea. But i need to stress that germany was NOT the aggressor in ww1 that is just wrong from every possible angle.

[@htpau]

7:06 Dutch is a People from Netherlands, not from Germany

[@annikastonefieldt7941]

hats off to your german pronounciation of Düsseldorf :))

[@umalunatica]

So, for who lives on North,how is the North part? It looks interesting

[@Palontras]

Just a sidefact: Germany wasn't the aggressor on World War I, Austria-Hungary was, and germany was called in as an ally.

[@wertsdsf1162]

I mean… when you promise your allies, that you will support them in anything they‘re doing, then you’re definitely more of an active aggressor than just complicit.

[@wertsdsf1162]

@pegamini It most certainly wasn't and I really hope that you are just saying this for the sake of intentionally missunderstanding me. Because if you really believe this, there is no way I will be able to convince you of the opposite.

[@ketapeter67]

5:57 Speyer 😻

[@mymegafan]

Warum hört das Video mittendrinn auf?

[@guikgfzjr7]

We might get more sun in the east but it's always warmer in the west.

[@menschensindkomig128]

But the anthem of germany is not the “Deutschlandlied“ it is only the third verse. Because there is talked about borders from 1913.

[@menschensindkomig128]

And the verse “Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt“ is very very controvers. In english it says “Germany germany above all above all in the world“.

[@poke_dab9081]

Best geography content, nothing else to add

[@CountriesExplained]

Thanks a lot for that nice comment! 🙌😄

[@atlantis2313]

Ein Volk ein Reich ein Kommentarbereich Wichtig als Deutscher jeden Kommentarbereich zu annekteret

[@The_real_Lord_X]

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