American reacts to 25 UNKNOWN FACTS About Germany
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Make no mistake, they can still punish you for any additional crimes committed during your attempt to break free, as it were - like willfull destruction of property, bodily harm, etc.
and most importantly: stealing prison clothes
@@buciallstar in Germany there is NO prison clothes....
You have your own clothes
Right. The jailbreak is not punishible, but you might think of breaking the steel in front of the prison window in order to do it. That is destruction of property which *_IS_* punishible. In order to commit a jailbreak, you would have to commit another crime or at least to misfollow the jail's rules.
@@young19boy Not necessarily. Don't forget that prisoners in Germany are often allowed to leave the prison for some reason or another. If they don't come back (which is true for less than 1% mind you), it is a jail break. If they apprehend you, you won't get prison vacations anymore (since you misused the trust put in you), but otherwise there won't be further punishments.
@@swanpride Yes, that's what I meant by "misfollow the jail's rules". The jail in my town has this allowness and trust for most of the prisoners. (Ausgang) It also had the discrimination for non-vaccinated prisoners whose time of Ausgang was reduced, vaccinated prisoners were allowed to more time of Ausgang than non-vaccinated. I knew it because I worked as a postman and the jail belonged to my area, I once read that hint when bringing a letter there.
6:28 These videos arent blocked anymore. There was a copyright dispute with the "GEMA" here in germany. Which is responsible for checking if every bar, disco, etc. is paying their loan when they are using music from artists. Now this is all settled and every video of VEVO is playable in Germany.
It's even worse, it wasn't an actual "fight". RUclips just pretended they couldn't pull stats how often certain videos were viewed and how much money RUclips generated with them, since GEMA is the German tool to give Artists and Creators their crumb of the cake build from using their stuff. It's typical for corporations Like RUclips or Facebook to pretend they don't understand the problem in order to gain privileges or just outright not having to pay money to anyone. 😄
@@edwardherzrec get a vpn or for hearing spotify... nothing blocked then
omg i totally forgot gema existed, it was so fucking annoying
@@radiosilence289 lol for real, so glad its gone, but barely noticed when it was gone
Also, SNL is blocked in Germany for some reason - we only get the skits after 9-12 months. Which sucks, because I don't want to pay for a VPN just to watch SNL.
Another thing you didn't know: The name "America" was invented by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Freiburg i. Br. Named after the navigator Amerigo Vespucci, who Waldseemüller mistakenly thought had discovered America.
Oh, thanks, just yesterday I asked myself where the name America might come from. :D
Im related to that Dude 😅
Not so mistakenly. Amerigo Vespucci worked first for the Medici bank. In this function he founded in Sevilla (1492) together with Columbus and a Giannotto Berardi a financing company for Columbus' first journey. Columbus discovered the Antilles, but not the American continent. In 1497 Vespucci made his first journey and disembarked on the mainland, which Columbus did not before 1498. Vespucci was also the first to describe the "New World" as a new continent and did not call its inhabitants "indians" like Columbus did (whose knowledge of geography was rather pathetic and who till his death still believed to have discovered a new route to India and Asia, not to a "new world"). His reports were printed in Florence and Paris, and he was considered (by Waldseemüller as well as by most others) as the explorer who had the most contributed to the discovery of the new continents.
@@MichaEl-rh1kv thanks for the clarification
Waldseemüller said, that he assumed the Name came from Vespucci (without explaining why it isn't Vespuccia), but the Name has been going around before that.
One Explaniation is, that Kolumbus asked the Aboriginals on the Karibik Isleands, where they got the Gold from, that he got from them. They answered something like "Amerigg", with was a name for a Mountainrange in southern Mexico. Kolumbus went back to Spain and told everyone about the Gold from "Amerik". He still thought he was a short way from Asia, so he didn't try to name a Continent, just passed along the Name he got told.
Vespuccio was the First to assume, that (South) America is it's own Continent, so the already known Name was linked to him after the Fact.
Hi Ryan,
it is illegal to run out of fuel on the Autobahn since every unnecessary stop on there is very dangerous due to the high speeds driven there. And you are well able to prevent to run out of fuel.
Since Americ ablew up the Pipelines...yes, very likely to run out of fuel today.
@@germaniatv1870 What are you talking about?
I second that. I had to stop on the Autobahn (just on the side, but still) to check the cooling system as I got a warning on my display. Getting onto 80 km/h to at least drive as fast as the trucks was a stunt I do not want to pull on the side lane ever again.
@@germaniatv1870 that was a natural gas pipeline, not a gasoline pipeline. Totally different stuff. If you don't know such a simple fact, keep quite.
@@tboi112 The Baltic Sea ones, I suppose...what has basically nothing to do with running out of gas, while driving.
The thing with escaping from prison is, that you can however be punished for other things you do while escaping.
If you destroy the bars for example, you could be fined for that.
Also, "no punishment" doesnt mean that your jail sentence end, just means it wont be extended for trying to escape
exactly. if u destroy something u get punished for that. if u injure someone.... and so one...
and yes u are not "free" like freedome in total
Actually it's simple. If you commit a crime you can't be forced to help the system to put you in jail and you can't be forced to help the system to keep you in jail. So, if they give you the chance to walk away, you can do that. Of course you still have to finish the full time if they get you and you lose the possibility for an early release.
In Germany, you get a lot of improvements if you get close to the end of the jail time and behave correctly. This includes "Freigang" which means you can get out over the day to search for a job and prepare for the time after. So running away and not returning to the prison is pretty easy but also pretty stupid.
Yeah that highlights again the differences between those prison systems.. In germany they want you to get back on feet in America they want you vanished
Same thing is: the prison clothes aren't yours, so it's theft if you keep them on
I googled it because I couldn't believe the condom on fire story, and I was right to do so:
The beatles attached condoms to their van walls and set so many of them on fire that they got in trouble for (allegedly) trying to burn their van down.
Lighting condoms on fire was never illegal in Germany, even though the video claims that.
Which makes me wanna fact check all the other ones because I also don't really believe that Berlin is bigger than Paris pr has that many bridges in comparison to other places.
I checked the Paris fact it's kind of true (Berlin 891 km², Paris 105 km² so it is bigger but more like 8,4 times)
Berlin is much bigger then france by area, but Berlin is a city state and it includes a lot of forrests and lakes around the city. Thats also why they have so many bridges, there are a lot of small rivers and creeks and therefore a lot of very small pedestrian bridges.
As far as I know the bridges include any kind of bridge, not just river/water crossing ones. Venice mostly has bridges to cross the water, but Berlin has many bridges to just cross land and also bridges for pedestrians to cross wide and busy streets.
@@Katie93tree Wow, thats 7 times bigger as Paris.
@@AnniePetit And Venice is also much smaller
this jail thing. however, if you injure people or destroy property while escaping, you will be punished for it.
Indeed if you manage to simply walk out without violating any other law, you can not be punished for that. But any property damage, theft, assault, bribery or other violation of the law will be acted on.
You can lose some privileges in jail for escaping though.
Also you steel the jail clothes if you escape with them.
The easiest way is not to return after Freigang
@@suessigkeitenlp You don't have to wear jail clothes in german prisons
@@suessigkeitenlp German prisoners wear their own clothes
The thing with blocked youtube videos is incredibly outdated. That issue was resolved in 2015 or 2016, I think.
Yet many people appear to still believe that it is that way.
But yes, it was due to the strict german copyright laws.
So many things in that video arent fact checked and inaccurate.
@@ChrisGrump The video is from 2015 though, so some of the thing that are outdated now, where probably true 8 years ago.
What is true is that many steam adult games are not available im Germany.
@@LovisPlatz except the Paris thing bc neither Paris nor Berlin grew in those years
The video he watched is from 2015.
Number of bridges in european cities:
1. Hamburg 2.500 🇩🇪
2. Wien 1.716 🇦🇹
3. Amsterdam 1.281 🇳🇱
4. Berlin 960 🇩🇪
5. Venedig 400 🇮🇹
The Worldwide biggest number is as far as i know in America with new York but the second biggest is Hamburg
@@hucky89 sorry New york just has 2072 bridges, Hamburg has 2500. The most in the WORLD.
And Hamburg usually only counts bridges you can go on in a vehicle.
@@larswesterhausen7262 i think also pedestrian bridges do count. there are a lot in some parts.
@@larswesterhausen7262 what counts is "bridges" wich signs on the Autobahn. SO its not a clear difenition hat a bridge is, and no offizal counts of real bridges. is complicated. but still a lot
Yeah, the guys of the Kampfmittelräumdienst (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service) do outstanding jobs, risking their lives every time. Bombs are not like Wine, which gets better over time.
Yeah, but to be fair: The probabiltiy of one of these bombs to go off after all this time is nearly zero. All the evacuations and stuff are, for the most part, to be on the safe side while they first check if the bomb is still under pressure. And usually they are not. And then they still have to deactivate it (or whatever it's called) as if it could blow up any time, again for safety reasons and protocoll.
I mean, let's be honest: they usually find them on very active contruction sites (in my city, just one month ago at the construction site of the university hospital). They didn't detonate under that construction, they won't detonate after.
@@olgahein4384 that highly depends on how they are supposed to detonate, some delayed fuses can still be aktive because the bomb hit dirt and turned upside down in the dirt, might not go off instantly when constructions begin but I personally wouldn't want to risk it.
@@olgahein4384 Depends on what kind of detonator those bombs have. Back then those so called "Säurezünder" ( de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemisch-mechanischer_Langzeitz%C3%BCnder ) were popular. And those are getting really nasty with age. That is something you don't want to encounter, ever.
Yeah, but they usually don't fall victims to those bombs. The ones really in danger are the construction workers, since it has already happened a few time that one went off due to the digging in the ground.
@@olgahein4384
About 15 years ago, a worker died 3 kilometers from my house when he drove his construction machine over a hidden bomb during construction work.
Quote from wikipedia:" On July 1, 1979, Sony released its first Walkman called the TPS-L2. As early as 1977, the German Andreas Pavel had applied for a patent for a similar device, the "body-bound small system for high-quality reproduction of auditory events". In 2004, Sony recognized this after a long legal battle."
The Germans traded Patents with the Japanese, obviously. Many "American" claimed inventions are also German Patents stripped after 1945. For example, the USA now holds over 2.000 Paint Patents from Germany.
But nobody could pronounce bbssfhqroae correctly when they tried to order one, so they went with the easier to pronounce Walkman. 😉
@@ichbinbluna3504 Das wusste ich nicht, aber vermutlich war es dann sogar eine Urheberrechtsverletzung oä.
@@Al69BfR It's not his name for the device, but the explanation/description for his invention.
Yeah the name for the device was stereobelt
Fun Fact: Nearly every city in the world has more bridges than Venice. Venice is relatively small and there are no mayor roads in the Old Town of Venice. There are these Chanels, so the main way of transport is by Boat. With a Boat you don't need Bridges.
7:35 The Windsors original name was Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha. They changed it during WWI because of political pressure in GB. The king from Belgium comes from the same house.
The German nobles were/are in nearly every royalty in Europe.
The Nazi Uniforms weren’t designed by Boss, he only ran a factory that produced them. It’s just a myth that comes from them looking stylish and people trying to make a (not so) fun fact out of it.
Its called German Uniform.
The whole video is just full of myths and misinformation. The Beatles story, the Hugo Boss story, the Statistics, the world largest zoo, really everything in this video is false
Who was the designer then? Would’ve made sense to be Boss or one of his employees, when they manufactured them
@@vomm Americans are not really good with Euro-History. Its a American channel that did the video, right?
@@viciousyeen6644 People, its a German Uniform... not a "Nazi" uniform. There should be a video on how the word Nazi was cultivated as obviously it was never used by the Germans themselves, only by the US and the British.
Thats why you may seem to think the German Uniforms today still look "Nazi". Yet, they look like a German Uniform.
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Thats the problem with the by the Allied cultivated word "Nazi"...they make everything "Nazi"... yet, what does it really mean? Nobody knows...its a new definition post 1945. Yet, there is already a definition for Racism.
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So actually, those are simply German Uniforms.
11:45 there was never a law specifically outlawing setting condoms on fire.
These two guys nailed a condom on the wall and let it burn down, which left some traces of the fire. The owner of the house reported them for allegedly wanting to burn the building down. Their action was obviously not enough to prosecute them for attempted arson, but the trouble they had caused was still enough to have them deported.
*Hamburger* was called back than *Hamburger Beef*
• The Hamburger original had a *Weizen Brötchen* as bun, which has a soft crust.
• The Hamburger orginal meat is to this day german *Frikadelle:*
_>> A frikadelle is a rounded, flat-bottomed, pan-fried meatball of minced meat, often likened to the German version of meatballs._
Yeah so basically a Mettbrötchen, but the raw meat part cooked instead... still way off from a hamburger, so who "invented" it is hard to say ^^
a mince meat "steak" is to this day called "Steak Hamburger Art" (steak hamburg style).
@@m.h.6470 In the 1960s and 1970s in South-Germany restaurants still served "Deutsches Beefsteak". Many Germans did emigrate via Hamburg and they brought their recipes, and to make the long story very short, these "Hamburgers" did not invent minced meat in the US but made it famous.
I wouldn´t call Frikadelle auf Brötchen Burger and if meat in bread is the definition, Roujiamo is conciderd the first burger like food first served in China about 2200 years ago. All records of first time calling it "Hamburg/er" all leads to the US where several places and people claim it their invention. Also "Sun-Tsu - Art of War" was the first printed book in history.
@@gedeuchnixan3830 the definition of burger is "fried minced meat in bun". just meat in bread is to general to be called burger.
#7 and then the birthrate increased by about 15% between 2013 and 2016 ... you can guess what this means for the schools now, about 6 to 10 years later. (in addition to another increase by some hundred thousand school students who had been born in Ukraine, Syria and other countries and are now living in Germany) ... so now there's rather the complete opposite of scarcity of school children- rather a scarcity of teachers.
Schools are rebuilt or reopened. i live next to a GDR style school that had to be reactivated. The outside is still original 1970s not a single new paint on it.
pls...the real problem is not the scarcity of school buildings, but the lack of school teachers...
And the few we have getting basically fired, and re-hired after the summer break.
That would be inacceptable for every other field... except maybe subcontracted work (Leiharbeit)...
@Askan
Let's agree on that we have two problems. Missing teachers and too few buildings.
9:32 last time someone told us to have ''more German kids'' it didnt end well. I guess were done with that lmaoooo
The charges that put you into prison don't disappear when you break out, you just don't get an additional sentence on top of the original one.
7:27 it should be pointed out that what is today known as "Fanta" has little to do with the original recipe.
In fact, even today, the "Fanta" recipe varies greatly by region. The "Fanta" sold in the US tastes and even looks very different from that being sold in Germany.
germany fanta is the best, i tried a couple and they do not taste anything like orange or are too sweet, too artificial, just garbage.
The actual Fanta in Germany has nothing to do with the Fanta from the 40ies. A few years ago Coca Cola Germany made a Fanta Classic. Made from the original recipe. It tasted very good in my opinion, but completely different from the "normal" Fanta. I mean, there could be something about this on Wikipedia.
@@Dirk-Ulowetz Yes. In the US there is always a tendency they try to "improve" something and make it worse. They tried it also with Coke and they had to reverse it. The german word "verschlimmbessern" was invented for that.
The joke is, Fanta today in Germany still looks the same, but now tastes almost like the Italian Fanta we loved back in the 70s and 80s when we were there. It just had an extremely orange color.
Of course, it tasted fruitier simply because the oranges were riper during production than they are here.
Fanta, the name, comes even from the german word Fantasie which means... You guessed it: Fantasy.
The beverge was invented because of supply issues in Germany during the war (who would have guessed?!) for Coke and they then experimented.
Original Fanta has a bit of whey in it (yeah, the same stuff as in protein shakes!), apple fibres and a unique taste.
Also you got a milky color to it. A reason for it to be stored in tainted glass bottles because it else could spoil quickly.
Another point is that they did a limited run of the original recipe back for the anniversary but the marketing was rough to say the least.
As you can imagine advertising something that was made because of World War 2 shortages and then trying to envoke nostalgia and stuff just didn't work out.
The uniforms were not designed by Hugo Boss. He was just one of many manufacturers
Bro Parrafin is now common candle wax and it replaced bee wax.
running out of gas on the highway is illegal because it's super dangerous, imagine everyone going like 180km/h or faster and someone suddenly runs out of fuel
There is no law that explicit forbids to run out of full. There is only a law that it is forbidden to stop without no unpredictable (emergency) reason.
- Your car brokes down, a tire explodes - You are allowed to stop because you couldn't know that this would happen.
- You suddenly feel ill, your stomage hurts you have a heart attack - Legal to stop (medical emergency)
- You see nice flowers, you stop, walk over the Highway lanes to watch the flowers - not legal.
- You ignored the full gauge, the warning sound, the warning light while passing three Gasstations - predictable and therefore not legal.
Incidentally, the German Fraunhofer Institute invented the mp3.
Walkman: As early as 1977, the German Andreas Pavel had applied for a patent for a similar device, the "body-bound small system for high-quality reproduction of audio events". In 2004, Sony recognized this after a long legal dispute.
The by far more relevant invention by Germans: MP3 by Fraunhofer in Erlangen
It's not that they don't try to catch the escapist after. It's just it has no additional consequences for him.
Ever heard about Gutenberg? What does your intuition say about where he originated?
The uniforms were designed by Karl Diebitsch, an SS designer. Boss only stitched them together.
Thank you! It’s incredible how sticky that myth is.
6:01 State colleges and universities do not charge tuition fees, but they do charge a semester fee of around 300 € (for train tickets, etc.). However, there are also some private universities that charge tuition fees, some of which are very high.
6:38 I live in an area that was bombed a lot at the end of WWII as there is a bridge here that carries the main north-south rail axis. We still have bomb clearance alarms once or twice a year, for which we always have to leave our houses for a few hours.
For a short time period before that video was made, there were small tuition fees. It was like 500 EUR per semester in NRW.
Even though berlin has more bridges than Venice it's not even close to the city with the most bridges. The German city Hamburg has over 2.500 bridges. With this Hamburg is the city with the most bridges in Europe. In comparison Berlin has a little over 900 Bridges and Venice only 400.
And only New York has a few more bridges than Hamburg in the world. 😀
@@peterhartmann2460 that is funny. not even close :) they may have more hamburgers, though
The most viewed videos are not blocked anymore. There was a legal issue between RUclips and a german Institution "GEMA" who are in charge of music rights in Germany. But its mostly settled. So we can watch them again
some of the facts in this video are a bit outdated
@@tobyk.4911 Maybe because the video is from 2015? He even says that in the video.
10:15 You can definitely say that. It's common for many people to find the long guard uniforms appealing and they are that way today for a special regiment. It's called the "Wachbataillon" or in full "Wachbataillon beim Bundesministerium der Verteidigung"
5:58 If I recall the story correctly it was "invented" by sailors who wanted a snack to go so similar to the einvention of the sandwich they just jammed meat into a bun.
The myth says that at first they sold the patty / Frikadelle without the bread, but since the meat was hot and the sailors often didn't have enough time, they added the bread so they can eat it on the go. I like this story, whether it is true or not.
It was a harbor snack called Frikadellensemmel which the american sailors then replicated and called the „Hamburger Sandwich/Snack/etc“. Over time only the Hamburger part stuck.
@@Epik-hm8ws And the Frikadelle in bread is still way better than any Hamburger.
07:50 on the matter of "If Queen Victoria was still alive, would WW1 have happened" Emperor Wilhelm II allegedly said "Oh.. she would not have allowed that..."
Which she probably would not have been able to prevent... but still shows how much their common grandmother meant to them.
Btw... look at pictures of Kaiser Wilhelm, Tzar Nikolaus and King George.... the resemblance is astonishing!
Tzar Nikolaus and King George could have been passed as identical twins, no wonder with so many common ancestors!
8:23 3 years is the maximum possible sentence for "Volksverhetzung". Doubtful merely showing the Hitler salute would get you there. At any rate, the first offense would certainly not get you to jail; you would get away with a fine. To go to jail for that, it would most certainly have to be a repeat offense.
Either way, intent matters and there is no such thing as negligent Volksverhetzung. So you can't get punished just for raising your right arm in an unfortunate angle.
Not sure if the RUclips blocked thing applies anymore if the video is from 2015… we still had GEMA back then I guess blocking every video with music
It has been RUclips who blocked the videos. They didn't want to pay GEMA.
I was about to add the point with the prison break, but I see that more than enough people have already done that. The tuition fees were also quite low in international comparison. The study is nevertheless not free, that is a wrong information. We at least pay administrative fees, for me it was EUR 250 to EUR 350 per semester during my studies and in addition there were 500 free printouts for lecture materials. However, that was six years ago. 😂
the administrative fees are still the same. I am studying right now and pay 300-400€ per semester. I also have to buy stuff that i need for my studies like equipment or books for example.
I pay 90€ per semester but I don’t have a semesterticket so maybe that’s why it’s so low
The administrative fees are WAY lower than what you're saying.
The prices are so high because most universities are charging the "Semester Ticket" with the tuition fee which costs something between 200-300€ based on where you're studying.
Highly recommand you take a look on your tuition fees and then the section where the costs for every thing are listed.
Like Semester Ticket and stuff.
When I was studying the administrative fee was below 100€. I even think it was just something between 30-50€. But was about 10 years ago. ;)
5:22 With regard to school closures, it would make more sense to look at the birth rates between 1989-2009 than just the development of the total population.
In East Germany in particular, birth rates fell by about half between 1989 and 1995 compared to the time before the Wall came down in 1989, due to the social upheaval in a completely different economic system.
Love your videos, it's really fun watching you and you're really sympathetic
Keep up the good work!
Paraffin is the stuff candles are made of these days. It is the substitute for beeswax and is made from petroleum
Even though you don’t have to pay tuition fees at college, it’s not completely free. You have to pay 200-300€ per semester as an administrative fee (Semesterbeitrag).
The administrative fee is usually less than 50€. the rest is for the "Semesterticket" (free public transport in the region around the university).
Of course, 200-300€ per semester is basically "free", by American standards.
One should of course add that you still have to pay for your accommodation, if you don't live with your parents. And of course all the materials you need to study. Although unlike at American unis, you won't usually have to spend hundreds of Euros per semester on books beacuse you can't pass the courses otherwise.
I pay 180 as "Semesterbeitrag", put we only get free public transport on weekends, holidays and everyday after 7pm
@@miridroge6043 well, in other cities it's different, you have free public transport around the clock.
Restricting it to the times indicated by you would make little sense anyway. I mean, how are you supposed to get to the campus when you can't use public transport when the courses take place? It's not like in Germany most students live there
I think the title should be 25 things most Germans don't know about Germany! 😄
More appreciate title is "things about Germany that are most likely not true"
Many of them are partly true, I think
There is almost no Google Street View in Germany. You can see that by clicking on the little yellow man (then blue roads appear), and de-zooming the map.
4 - we also invented printing. so its not far fetched that we also were the first to print a magazine or newpspaper
German Fanta tastes different from US Fanta. But still German Fanta isn't the original Fanta from the past.
The original Fanta tastes extremely better, than today's Fanta.
So basically the same as coke with the last statement xD
In fact, Belgian fanta is much better than German fanta. Cross the border and try it! 😉
@@christopherschmitt1801 Maybe it is the original recipe with whey?
Every softdrink tastes slight different in various countries as the recipes are changed ever so slightly to accomodate the specific taste of that culture.
@@CerberusTenshi although only a small difference, also the water can make a difference, depending eg on the "hardness" and natural minerals from different local sources in the same country.
The fuel thing is for safety reasons. They just don't want people to get off cars and jaywalk the autobahn, or even worse: become an obstacle during rush hours in a crowded city, only because they ran out of fuel. There could be numerous potentially dangerous situations. The fine acts as an additional motivation to make sure that it doesn't happen, as if the embarrassment wasn't enough punishment allready. And hey, it seems to be working! Never seen anyone who didn't at least make it to the next gas station so far!
Yes. It is basically impossible to run out of fuel in germany except for neglicence. Like running a red-light because you were distracted or driving too fast because you did not notice the last speed-limit-sign ... same neglicence, but also illegal.
Paraffin is the wax your candles are usually made of, it is lightweight tough, but its not super technologically advanced stuff. So basically it is just refined mineral oil. :D
Thank you so much for your videos, so nice to watch while rendering my Streams!
BTW which mic are you are using?
Greetings from Germany ^^
8:14 I was in a WW2 museum with some people from work in December and one dude in my group (whe split up into 2 groups) decided to make this symbol and I got freakingly upset at him. His only response was "we are in a WW2 museum and there is a photo of Hitler" -.- bruh when I told our boss who was with us she got super pissed and said he can be lucky that she did not tell the owner of the museum or else this guy would be in deep problems. The dude did not even think twice when he did the symbol with his hand, not even when I said it was dissrespecting to our coworkers since we were with a Polish woman and a Turkish man ... He even said days later that he was just doing it cause of the "we were in a WW2 museum" and he didn't saw being scolded for doing it as a lesson to learn from ...
Was the guy a german?Then he's lucky that it wasn't in austria.Here there is the paragraph of "re-activation" imprisonment or high fines are the result.
@@Salige150 Same in Germany tbh! ;)
Regarding the blocked RUclips Videos - that was related to a dispute between GEMA and RUclips (GEMA is a organization which collect license fees for all music media which made accessible to the public, including radio, TV, Internet, Movies, public performance (e.g. club)... and will distribute the collected fees to the artists - at least in theories). Because RUclips declined to spend any extra money on this, GEMA enforced by the judiciary that all RUclips videos containing copyright music, needs to be blocked - that was the case until 2016. In 2016 GEMA and RUclips made a contract, so that's not the case anymore.
Berlin Zoo is not the lagest in the world by size, but presents the largest collection of species in the world. They show 1500 species with 17000 animals.
Love your reactions on german stuff! Keep going! :D
Donut is German too.
>> *Lochkrapfen*
Orginated from German *Berliner/Krapfen,* which were 1st mentioned 14th century in the 1st ever printed cook book.
The first mention after Krapfen was Pfannkuchen, so I dont know where the Berliner comes from
@@anthemsofeurope2408 yes Krapfen! Sry Berliner stands there bc it is _"also called, in other region Berliner"._
I did write it a bit to mixed, but for the audiance _"not knowing Krapfen, bc they know (only) Berliner as its name"._
You are absolut right!! No question ask!
@@aw3s0me12 Well, but I said is, the first mention says "Krapfen", the second says "Pfannkuchen". Has nothing to do with Berlin. The word "Berliner" dont exist that long
@@anthemsofeurope2408 true!
@@anthemsofeurope2408 side question, you know the reason, why we germans to this day, bind _"multi"_ words together to create a new one?
>> The answer is realy fascinating!
7:47 It‘s not exactly corruption but monarchy. But one can argue how much of an overlap there is. 😉
10:03 Like others already mentioned that Hugo Boss probably didn‘t design the uniforms during the Nazi era, but Ferdinand Porsche designed the first Beetle called Volkswagen on the order of the Nazi regime. And the Nazis built a factory to produce the Volkswagen. After WW2 the factory then became the company VW aka Volkswagen.
11:11 apropos Beetles. Before The Beatles became a world famous band, they not only played in the Cavern club in Liverpool but also had an engagement at the Star Club in Hamburg/Germany which was an important stage of their career and helped them form the band we all know today.
11:50 Another imho important „invention“ was the first 35mm photo camera built by Oskar Barnack which uses 35mm film rolls normally used for movies to make pictures with the format 24x36mm. It was so small that it reinvented photography and made it possible to easily carry the camera in your pocket. That lead to a more widespread availability for everyone.
And as it is with any invention, it‘s always a race about who came out first or got the patent granted before anyone else. So you probably know Alexander Graham Bell as the inventor of the telephone while Germans prefer their phone from Philipp Reis, even he didn’t exactly invented the telephone as a device like we know it today but was the first person who transmitted sound via electricity form one place to another.
So in most part the question of who invented it, is a negotiation between patent lawyers, their customer, the bureau for patents and a civil court. 😉
I usually switch on english subtitles, just in case someone is speaking not so clearly. At 6:45 the speaker (speaking about WW II bombs) said "around 5500 bombs are discovered in Germany everyday and defused..." The subtitel said " are diffused". To diffuse a bomb would mean to blow it up and so diffuse its material in the surrounding. HILARIOUS!!
Fun fact: breaking out of jail isn't illegal here in germany. However, you still get put back in to serve the rest of your time and get charged for everything you did to break out accordingly. But if you manage to leave while there are no wardens you'd need to resist on post, without stealing any vehicles, there is no additional time added...
regarding #14: More or less every monarchy in Europe is kinda rooted in German ancestry. The Habsburg knew their playbook, man!
one could say they also knew their family inside and out * wink wink *
Hey Ryan, check out the movie "the corporation". You will learn a bit more about how Fanta came about and also what IBM had to do with Germany at that time. It is well worth watching
Germany also invented the MP3/MPEG-3 audio format.
#12 yes, the US at that time also thought that this was "rude" - and declared war on Germany.
You could react to a video about the differences in German and American prisons, because there is a lot more to say
Oh yeah! We in Germany actually treat prisoners as humans! Seems to be a shocker to most Americans!
Reaction idea: German Math & Engineering: “Are Our American Kids Getting a Better Math Education Here?” by My Merry Messy German Life. I just finished watching this and thought it was interesting. I noticed the difference when my kids were going through school here in Germany.
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Btw, your channel has a brief cameo in NALF’s recent video, “I Learned How to Fit in With Germans”.🙂
2:58 Digging out with a spoon would cause property damage, which is illegal. If you hurt someone, damage something, etc. that's still an offense and will be punished, just the escaping itself isn't illegal, so for example if you can run away while transported without hurting someone or damaging something.
The illegal to run out of fuel on highways thing: you are obliged to get enough fuel for your jurney before you get on the highway in the first place and not become a motionless obstacle in the process...
This video feels badly researched. I'm pretty sure we are not considered the most capitalist country (I think that'd be US or South Korea). Tuition is free at public unis, not private ones. You still have to pay a semester fee. The blocked video thing was a long time ago because our music industry didn't agree with what the labels received per click. It's been long ago resolved.
9:43 Nope we don´t, with the mass imigration we have enough.
Living space is scarce here and we do not have a half continent to settle.
We sustain our poulation level and need to invest more in them. Quality above quantity and that means education.
So we are in deep shit right now because our education system needs a big reform, funds and a lot more teachers ... we don´t have...😬
Just looked it up and in 2021 41% of all energy sources where deemed renewable. This is about 233.9 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
You are a funny Guy and well interested in Germany! Thank you for that
yo parafin is more a wax like substance u would make candles out of for example. on the other hand some of those "facts" seem very strange to me as a german
Germany is definitely not the most capitalistic. Lol. We call it social market economy for a reason. There are socialistic traits. And also, the 83 Million people we have in Germany now are not all Germans. there are roughly (Just guessing) around 10-30 million non-Germans with German citizenship that were brought here to keep the economy functioning (At least that's what it was intended for). It started in the 50s with Italians, late 50s/early60s the turks and late 00s until today Africans andpeople from the middle east. So in reality, there are still less and less Germans here. The missing ones are just filled up by migrants.
To the Beatles, I have to tell you something! I met Hans Meister in 2005! He was the construction manager for the "Dialogue in the dark" in Frankfurt (Main) Germany! In February 2006 we went to Turin (Italy) to build an exhibition from the dialogue. We had a shared accommodation and he told me about the band he mixed on August 17, 1960 in Hamburg!
😳.... What?!
.... so cool!!!
Best regards from Germany
Joe Dirt
They planned on turning two classes per grade into one per grade in our local elementary school. At the same time, the kindergarten was overflowing and opened another group.
So, sometimes it's just dumb burocracy.
Regarding student fees: no direct tuition fees, but you have to pay the "Semesterbeitrag" to cover the bus/train ticket, the university's upkeep and so on (for me around 300€/semester).
Don't know about renewable energy, but considering it takes 6 years to get wind turbines approved...
Ryan, If you read this could you react to "David Deery: Fan of Mitfahrgelegenheiten" - a american Comedian talking about his experience in Germany ^^
Der ist gut!
Its only illegal to set a condom on fire if someone is still wearing it.... :)
This mutation was actually already used to heal HIV. There are about 4 patients worldwide that had leukamia and got a stem cell donation from a person with this specific mutation and it did work. Those patient were virus free in the after checkups. And thus they are the only ones in this very selected club of people who were healed of HIV.
Many Videos where "Banned" in germany because of Copy Right Laws, but there have been deals and law changes and they are available for a while now.
Speaking of Fanta and Coke, you should try mixing them. They called the inventor of it a madman. Told him he cannot just combine two drinks as sugary and as sweet as Coke and Fanta. They called him insane. They called it madness. He called it Spezi.
I didn't know Germany was the most capitalist country in the world lol I always thought it was the US. Not that I know much about the topic
EDIT: I just looked it up, Germany isn't even in the top 10 💀
Tbh that just seems wrong to me. Don’t know which parameters they used to determine that, but I don’t think germany is actually more capitalistic than the us or china
@@lulaa123 it's gotta be that you have to pay for public bathrooms 😂
Yeah, that's BS. In fact, if you look how much we spend on social things, Germany is way more socialistic than capitalistic.
2:30 as of watching this video only now, as a german person, I wanted to add something to the "you won't be punished for escaping prison". The only hinderance is, you gotta be able to not break any law during your escape, which makes "digging a hole to escape through" punishable, as you are 'destroying others property'. You also can't just knock out a guard to escape as this is considered 'assaulting an officer' and 'causing harm to others'. So the only lawful way to exit is through the front door, because you can't climb a fence without you accessing private property unlawfully.
No 6 It's illegal to run out of oil in highway means also, you're responsible of all the consequences including the financial consequences what happens if you stop at the highway.
So many of these „facts“ are misleading or even false.
Nope, they are all true, checked them, or knew It, im from Germany...
Which are wrong? I'll proof U wrong
@@assolutogamer9418 So many misleading „facts“:
- SS-Uniforms were NOT designed by Hugo Boss. That’s a myth that was repeated so often that people take it as fact. We know who designed them: Karl Diebitsch and Walter Heck. Hugo Boss‘s company was one of many producers. He was not involved in any design work.
- Hamburgers don’t come from Hamburg. They were created in America by German immigrants. Similar to the Döner Sandwich beeing created by Turkish immigrants in Berlin. The patties used to be called Hamburger meat.
- Berlin is only bigger than Paris if you compare the biggest definition of Berlin to the smallest definition of Paris. Very misleading.
- College tuition fees were first abolished in the 60s then reintroduced in the 2010s in some states and quickly abolished again. It’s not illegal for private Colleges to take fees. Again very misleading.
- No reason given why those videos were blocked. It’s mostly music licensing and they are unblocked by now.
It’s just a shitty video.
@@assolutogamer9418 Apparently you have checked shit. Beeing German doesn’t make you an expert on anything (I‘m German too, btw). That’s a very cringy thing to say.
@@asmodon U Said Most... Its alright, big informing Essay, I was clear about Hugo, Hamburger, idc. I eat them thats enough, Berlin is actually pretty big, In geography lesson and ON Cars Berlin seems Way bigger, larger scale Yk...
And the Music Videos are unblocked by now but Not Back then, so the fact is true.
A few remarks here from a German:
- Germany is certainly not the most capitalist country in the world, given the social security standards we have, the strength of our trade unions and the co-determination rights of the works councils, not to mention the strict employment protection rights
- Only music videos were banned on RUclips in Germany due to copyright protection laws, in the meantime this dispute was solved
- Hugo Boss (famous men's fashion brand nowadays) did not design all Nazi uniforms, the Hugo Boss company only designed and produced the SS uniforms
- The Walkman was not invented in Germany, however, the MP3 format was invented in Germany by the Fraunhofer Institute
So the guy who created this video should do his homework next time.
Mit dem Walkman kannste dich prügeln, offiziell hat Sony zwar den ersten auf dem Markt gebracht, die Patentanmeldung für das Gerät erfolgte aber 2 Jahre früher von einem Deutschen. Da gabs irgendwann 2003/2004 die Ecke auch das Ende eines ewigen Rechtsstreits, soweit ich noch weiss wurde sich aber aussergerichtlich geeinigt am Ende
As many videos include the fact about blocked (music-)videos in germany, I want to clarify, that since 2015 the are basically no local blocks anymore, after google won a legal fight against the GEMA (a german music copyright organisation). It is true that back in the days there were many RUclips-Videos - especially music videos - that could not be played in germany, but I haven't seen a blocked video in years.
I general you can feel, that the video is 7 years old, as some facts already are completely obsolete.
There still are some blocked videos on german RUclips bit they have very specific topics I guess
Geographically, Berlin has an area of 892.00 km², while Paris only has 105.40 km². Berlin has a population of 3.45 million, Paris 2.22 million.
However, if you add the suburbs, the agglomeration (metropolitan area) Paris with 12.4 million inhabitants and an area of 17,174 km² is to Berlin with an agglomeration of 4.5 million inhabitants and an area of 3,743.21 km² But, it is well known that Berlin, with almost a thousand bridges, has more water crossings than Venice.
The uniforms were produced but not designed by Hugo Boss.
You can't really do the salute by accident because it includes holding your hand face down
it also depends on the intent. If you didn't do it intentionally - meant as the salute - you wont get punished.
Remember we are the 2nd biggest immigration country after USA. That's why we keep the population steady but have less small children.
Also it makes me even more facepalm all the racists hating on immigration here while without it we just fall apart xD be need to fill up so we have young people paying into the social net
Hugo Boss didn't design Nazi uniforms.
Hugo Boss undoubtedly benefited from the Nazis. The company owner was himself a member of the NSDAP, the factory also employed forced laborers under inhumane conditions, for which Boss also had to pay a fine of 25,000 Reichsmarks after the war.
Like other tailors, the company made uniforms for the Nazis, but the design was given to them.
6:33
Because these videos are all music videos and they all violate copyright law as in Germany you cannot upload music to RUclips unless you have a contractual agreement from the artist of the piece of music.
Only if the musician agrees with you contractually that you can upload the video, otherwise it will be automatically blocked. This also applies to background music in your own videos, even if you do not have proof that you are allowed to use the piece, this is considered theft and copyright infringement and will be automatically blocked
In regards of the Jailbreak the Cops do ofcourse try to capture the escaped Inmate and they ofcourse have to sit up the Rest of their Punishment
Another nice fact IMO is that not helping a person in danger can be a punishable crime (depending on the situation).
Yes, however, the hamburger in its original form is called Bulettenbrötchen here.
At that time, most of the other settlers didn't know what to do with "Bulettenbrötchen" or couldn't pronounce it?
So it was simply named after its origin.
If you google "Bulettenbrötchen" you can see what they looked like back then.
They look like the hamburger parody from Spongebob ;-)
There are private universities, where you obviously have to pay fees, but they are nowhere near the ones from Harvard, Stanford or Yale...
To clarify some things:
Breaking out of jail itself doesn't give you any additional jail time and itself is not a crime but it's not like you don't be able to get punished or it's that easy. Crimes you need to do along the way, like breaking locks, knocking out a guard or so, is still punishable. Also they can and will revoke any benefits. The easiest and dumbest way would be when you are allowed to leave the prison for the day. In Germany you can be released earlier, when you behave good and when it's time for you to leave, they may allow that you can leave the prison for the day, being it for work or just having a nice time with your family.
With the fuel is not directly that worded. In general you must do everything possible, that your car I'm doesn't break down. One avoidable thing is running out of fuel and because you aren't allowed to park on the Autobahn, you will get a fine. This applies to everything that can be easily avoided and it's not exclusive to the Autobahn but for every street where you can't park.
Also one quick fact: when you are in a accident and it can be prooven that you made a mistake, like running a read light, you can get a ticket right there.
With Fanta it's kinda true. It should be noted that it was very different back then and has not much to to with today's Fanta. The base was whey (the liquid you get when you make cheese), scraps from apples and different fruit concentrations.
And with inventions there is a lot Germany invented. The Walkman itself was not invented by a German and it's a trade name of Sony, which is not a German company but a German made a patent to a very similar device earlier and at some point Sony acknowledged that.
We also made the first computer. Also look at our atom program and our V2 rocket. We didn't made the first atom bomb, but this was due to the war and the lack of resources and with the V2, the Americans took German scientists and threw them into their space program and they used the V2 to do their first tests.
I don't know if certain in inventions would have seen the light without the war that early. But on the other hand what inventions we would have done without the war and the allies taking the good scientists and we struggling after the war.
Die Sache mit dem Ausbrechen ist die dass man dabei keine Sachbeschädigung oder Körperverletzung begehen darf
6:40
Three months ago, a World War II bomb was discovered during excavations near a train station in the German city of Karlsruhe.
Immediately, Deutsche Bahn interrupted nearby long-distance traffic.
Specialists from the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service assessed that 5000 Karlsruhe residents had to be evacuated within a one-kilometer radius.
The detonation was successful.
I think seeing Ryan react to german inventions would be so cool
In Hamburg its common for one part of it where people need to leave their homes sometimes for a short while until the bomb gets defused.
Love you reaction to jailbreak, indeed, it's a human desire to be free. I also find it does totally make sense.
PS Running out of fuel on the highway is a hazard to other people and increases the risks of accident, it's illegal in Switzerland too
My grandma lives in Pennsylvania.
Maybe I'll visit you next year when I come over.
Greetings
Sebastian
An excerpt from Wikipedia :
On July 1, 1979, Sony launched its first Walkman called the TPS-L2. As early as 1977, the German Andreas Pavel had applied for a patent for a similar device, the "body-bound small system for high-quality reproduction of audio events". In 2004, Sony recognized this after a long legal battle.