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5:08 It is actually incorrect that the birthrates are low around the world. Fact is that the human population is increasing faster than ever before. India alone experienced a population growth of more than 400 million people in the last 25 years (just for reference: The population of the entire USA is 336 million). Only the most developed countries suffer a pupulation decline, most countries in Africa, Asia and South America however make more than up for it with staggering population growth. Here's another number to think about: At the end of World War 2 in 1945 the world's population was about 2 billion people. On November 15 2022 however the world's population officially passed 8 billion people. 6:09 It was actually the name of one of the first "germanic" tribes the Romans encountered. And in true Roman fashion of using overarching terms for groups of people that had little in common in actual life they decided to call all of the peoples east of the Rhine by that name....just like they used the term Celts for a huge variety of peoples and the term Skyths for all the peoples living in what is modern day Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. Many of the names for Deutschland in other languages originate from specific tribes - the Finish Saksa for example goes back to the ancient tribe of the Saxons (which later conquered England and had a huge impact of what is now called English people). The Saxons settled in what is now Northern Germany and where therefore more familiar to the peoples living further North. The Alemanni are another tribe that settled in the area that is now Southern Germany - and to no surprise the Southern Europeans had more contact with them. 9:43 Well - as long as you realize that nothing about the so-called "reality" TV is real at all. It's all scripted and the people get roles assigned. 22:20 No you will not be arrested. You will be fined and have your license revoked though.
@Hauke-ph5ui Yep ... Syria for example QUINTUPLED its population over the last 60 years ... from 4,5 million to 22 million ... and then silly people in the West claim "global warming caused them problems".
For the US viewers: college isn’t equal to German University! In Germany we have 4 kinds of school after elementary school, where pupils are sorted into their academic achievement level. Hauptschule is geared towards a vocational training like plumber, carpenter, the like. Realschule is geared more towards the merchant adjacent jobs. Both of those are finished after 10th grade, some even leave school after 9th grade. Gymnasium is SUPPOSED to be for the more academically gifted children, that will go on to study at university, so it finishes after 13-12 years (depends on the year) and you can apply directly to studies like medicine, psychology, vet-med and so on….depending on your grade average which is calculated by state/divided by the number of applicants. Tends to result in long waiting times if you don‘t have a 4,0 GDA College in the US is a kind of intermediate step, where you are still required to take mandatory classes…this isn‘t the fact in Germany. When we leave after 12 years with a passed ABITUR, we apply directly to Uni, not College. College is basically the two to three years of school we have to spend starting tenth grade.
Austrian here: Sorry to correct you, but "College" is best translated to "Fakultät". Nothing you explained about the German educational system has anything to do with the topic you aimed.
@@kurteibensteiner2736 You are sadly misinformed. American College is the first 4 years after High School, and then people move on towards what we call University, or end with a College degree which is akin to an Abitur.
@@kurteibensteiner2736 directly from Google: One of the significant differences between colleges and universities is the types of programs offered. Generally, colleges focus on undergraduate programs only, while universities provide a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and Ph. D.21.02.2024
@@lynnm6413 What to "they" (= the Americans) call it when they "move on towards what we call University" and get their bachelor degree? Do they call it "University" or do they call it "College"?
@@kurteibensteiner2736 depends on their study. For a doctor, they do college for 4 years, then go to medical school for 4 years. We just go to Uni or Medizinische Hochschule after school
Germany also invented computers, bikes, helicopters, the phone, pocket cam, a working printing press ecosystem (not just the adaptable printing machine but also fitting paper and ink) - and something very important => the Knopfloch (button hole) in the 13. century! ´(which changed the entire clothing of the medieval age of Europe and more and more the world)
Not being punishable for breaking out of prison does not mean the police is not chasing you or that you don't have to go back when caught. It just means you don't get extra prison time for the act of breaking out. Bu you do in most cases get additional time for damaging things, harming people or/and if you didn't break out naked for stealing at least the prison clothing.
Fun fact: even you currency the Dollar comes from the "niederdeutschen" (a german dialekt) Daler which is the short form for the Joachimstaler a silver coin in the 16th century used in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
Always surprised when Americans are surprised that in Germany you are not punished if you escape from prison. USA, look at your neighbors, in Mexico you are not punished if you escape from prison either. OK, in the USA prison is not rehabilitation but a business, 90% of all prisons are private companies. More people are in prison in the USA than in Russia and China combined. Of all third world countries, the USA is the worst. The USA used to be the hope for free people, now the USA is the nightmare, I hope the USA can one day muster the strength to free itself from this, but the last election seems to have buried my wishes for the USA.
@@irgendan "Ignorance is bliss" and creates the delusion that "the USA is the greatest nation in the world" ... without any real proof for that, because "the ability to beat up every other country in the world" does not make anyone great ... just a bully.
If a culture is over 2000 years old, it happens that people gets several names from the other cultures. As a German, it's just annoying to me that our culture and history is limited to WWI and WWII. The centuries in which the Germans spread writing (printing), language and inventions across the world and more are simply forgotten. For example, the English language emerged from Germanic, as the Angel Saxons were the first settlers in England. That's why there are a lot of similarities and Germans usually have no problem learning English.
Sorry, that’s BS. It has nothing to do with „getting names“. It’s just the same in different languages. A fruit grown on a tree is only in english called „apple“. In french, german, italian whatever it is called different. Different languages have different words for the same thing.
The main Volkswagen facility in Wolfsburg produces more currywurst than cars. The VW currywurst has a partnumber and can be ordered by VW dealers in Germany through the spare part system.
german is actually quite easy to learn for natural english speakers, since we share alot of words. the different names for germany from other countries comes due to the different kingdoms that merged together as germany
The naming rules are implemented to protect the child and the child's rights as a human being - so naming your kid after brand names, random items,, swear words, religious names like "christ" or "God" , bad people from history or in some cases really bad given name/surname combinations is prohibited. For parents a weird name might sound cool , funny or unique, but imagine the kid being constantly ridiculed in school.
Reaction suggestion: Dinner for one. The version from Germany, not the Swiss one or any of the newer ones. Many Americans have already reacted to it, it's so much fun. No need for subtitles there, since the few words spoken are all in English.
Don't confuse being rich with being smart. Education was just limited to the elites because they had the money to sit in a room all day and educate themselves, not because they where smarter. Public education is the main reason for our rapid technological advancements, because now we have a lot more heads to think about problems and potential solutions to these problems.
About this "College thing": Now we see very clearly how extremely important good education is. For everybody. Not just for those who want to achieve higher academic goals. That's why Germany has free education for all. The whole country benefits from well educated people on many levels, no matter what kind of job they'll do. Well educated are taught to ask questions, critical thinking and also how to find answers/solutions. Rheydt are taught to not just shrug their shoulders and say: I don't know, but how to find the needed information. They are taught to not simply follow orders, but to ask, if something is reasonable. The better educated people are, the less likely they will also be racists or fall for people who claim to have simple solutions for very complex problems, many studies showed. So, for example, if somebody tells you, another country will pay for your tariffs, you either know that won't happen or you know how to educate yourself on that topic.
If you want to start learning german ... start with the A B C ... which is quite different from the "eyyy bee see", but if you master it the pronounciation of words will become easier.
different names for Germany are due to historical and geographical reasons that have to do with the many different German tribes throughout history (Germany was first unified as ONE nation in 1870-71! Before, it was a conglomeration of independent Dukedoms and small states). Take the Finnish „Saksa“ which refers to what the English would call „Saxons,“ a northern tribe that eventually migrated to England…. „Deutsche Mark“ was the pre-Euro German currency from 1945 on. Like Italy had the Lira, England had the Pound, the French had the Francs etc.
18:32 why do we switch the capital all the time? What he just explained were about 1500 years of history. In this 1500 years of history our "capital" moved many times. First it can be considered Aachen, than it moved to Frankfurt for a short time, than it was wien (vienna) and after "the brother war" (the war between the northgerman conferderation, lead by prusssia and the south german states lead by austria) the capital moved to berlin. After ww2 germany was divided into two parts. Tge west adopted Bonn as its capital because Berlin aas divided aswell into west-germany controlled west Berlin and east-germany controlled east Berlin. After unification it became Berlin again. I have shurly missed several citys that had the honour but this are the major ones.
To make things a little easier for you... There are actually 2 units of measurement in the imperial system that can be easily converted using the metric values. One is yards and the other is pounds. A yard is about 0.9 meters. So for a distance in meters, you only need to take yards and then add 10%. 100 meters are then 110 yards. The pound is a very common unit of weight in Europe. For example, when you buy meat from the butcher. However, our pound is half a kilogram, so 500g. An American pound, however, only weighs about 450 grams. And here, 2 pounds for a kilogram and then add 10% again. And again the example... 100 kilograms is 220 pounds. So if you think in yards instead of feet, you can easily compare sizes and heights. And 40 inches are also about 1 meter...
20) The "galloping inflation" after the Mark was not longer backed by gold (since the central bank had no gold any more after WW I). The absolute sums were not the real problem, but the _daily_ inflation rate. If you sold something in the morning you had to run to buy something else before your money lost all its worth. Since the central bank could not print new bills fast enough, municipalities started to issue their own "emergency money" with bills which had face values of half a million, one million Mark or more. Some toilets were wallpapered with such bills as base wallpaper because that was cheaper than buying a real base wallpaper. In the end they solved it with a currency reform, switching to the Rentenmark (backed by obligatory mortgages on all commercially used real estate) at a exchange rate of trillion Mark for one Rentenmark. The gold backed Mark had been introduced in 1871 as currency. In 1924 the Reichsmark (Imperial Mark) was reintroduced at a exchange rate of 1:1 to the Rentenmark. In 1948 it was after another currency reform in West Germany replaced by the DM (Deutsche Mark), which became the strongest currency within Europe until it was itself replaced by the Euro. 21) That is an internet myth. Most younger Germans never heard of Hasselhoff; older ones knew him from TV series like Knight Rider or Baywatch. In 1988/1989 he had a short hype as singer in Austria. The mother-in-law of German music producer Jack White aka Horst Nußbaum saw Hasselhoff in a TV show and recommended him to White, who had in 1978 written a song "Looking for Freedom", first sung by a singer named Marc Seaberg aka Franz Seeberger. White and Hasselhoff produced a new record of this song, which became a hit in Germany in 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The public broadcasting company ZDF invited Hasselhoff to sing it at their Open Air New Years' party at the Brandenburg Gate 1989/1990. His fame ended however soon after. (And the participants of "celebrity big brother" are mostly former small celebrities who hope for some revival.) 23) Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in the Kingdom of Württemberg (as descendant of Jewish families from nearby Buchau). He went to Zurich to study and refused to come back for the obligatory military service in 1896, by which he lost his citizenship in Württemberg and the German Empire. In 1901 he gained the Swiss citizenship. 1911/12 he had additionally the Austrian citizenship since he worked as university professor in Prague. In 1914 he got a professorship at Berlin university which included the Prussian and later German citizenship; he renounced it in 1993 after Hitler came in power. He worked then in Princeton and got in 1940 the US citizenship - but he always thought of himself as a Swiss citizen and of Zurich as his hometown. So, no, he was Swiss! 25) Only half true. The brand Fanta was invented by Coca-Cola Germany as sanctions prevented the import of the original Coca-Cola syrup, but it was not made from oranges, but from apple peels and other waste products. The orange based drink was invented some years later in Italy and inherited only the name.
6:13 Been a few years since i did my latinum but if i recall correctly something the lines of ' large & germania just refered to how they called the land ', but generly the romans feared the german tribes and saw them as mad man living in forrests, somewhat between animals and humans and yet very skilled at war fare and the romans activly tryd and recruit them for there own military in command postions. It was a wierd a relationship you could say.
when he mentioned 'Wetterstein' your reaction 'it sounds really hard' is typical for one who has the WRONG VIEW on German. general rule: native (or other) English-speaker who are aware about their own language and also know about that German, English, Dutch etc. are related West Germanic languages for a reason have LESS difficulties than people (Germans or English) who lack of this knowledge. People without much awareness think its a totally different language while people with awareness know that they not only have a lot in common but also share a lot of even more (due to the influx of academic) greek/latin. This means in this case: with awareness it should be obvious that 'Wetter' is exactly the same word as 'Weather' with the same roots (cognates) and 'Stone/Stein' are also cognates (Wetterstein = Weather Stone). Totally easy if you have the right perspective (which means you are able to look for similar patterns), difficult if you have not (superficially thinking everything is different without much focus on the reality in front of the nose)
the population of Germany is not shrinking but raising (due to migration, just like in the US or UK - which btw. has a similar population to France. Germany is usually ahead (already at the medieval era when it was the Holy Roman Empire this part of Central Europe was the most populated) while UK/France came behind within the classic Western countries. The schools closed not due to a shrinking population but due to a further urbanization which you also have in all Western countries (and others even more)
41:20 Incorrect ... the rule is "minutes to the next hour" differentiated by "to / after" ... with the special case of "half", which is "halfway to the next hour".
You dont get arrested if you run out of full, but you get a fine. But to be honest, its not so hard to check your fuel level if you want to drive on the autobahn. There is no reason to run out of fuel. If you are to lazy to check your cars full, oil , water or air, dont drive. Btw, in Germany it is very hard to get arrestet. Its not like in the US. As a german, I have never heard somthing like "rend a jaw". This sound odd. 99 and 100 are currently not true anymore. We can watch all videos and the longest word is not anymore in the Duden book anymore (its a old world).
A fine and the cops are often still very helpful, my car broke down 200m before an exit on the Autobahn and they pulled my car out there, because it was a hot summer day they gave me cold water and because i didn't have my phone with me, one cop called the automobile club for me, because it was not the gas but as i later found out an broken alternator, i did not get a fine, just help.
I really like your reactions. You are a sweet and intelligent young woman. I wish your channel the very best. PS this guy doesn’t know how to pronounce German, it sounds much better with a native speaker.
Had to be evacuated twice because of unexploded bombs since I moved to a big city in Germany 10 years ago- those bomb findings happen at such a regular base that it is almost "normal" - apart from the part where you have to spend the night together with hundreds of strangers in a school gym. ;-)
36:50 we only hit the gas and didnt stop between 1939 and 1945 oh and squared pillows are only decorations for like couches and stuff, we have regular pillows lol
Germanys population isn't even declining. it's just going up for the last 3 years or so. mostly because of immigration i think. it's around 84-85 million curently
Germany needs about 500,000 immigrants every year to maintain our pension/welfare system. In the last 10 years, immigrants have founded over 25,000 companies and employ over 2,000,000 people (more than the auto industry).
According to the population projection based on the census before 2011, we would have a population of 84,079,811 in 2022. However, the 2022 census reports 82,719,540. The Federal Statistical Office also reports a population of 82.7 million on its homepage.
There are many more inventions from Germany, for example. Everything that has an engine and moves is a German invention and so is the engine, whether diesel, electric, petrol, jet engine, even rocket engines, the only exception are steam engines, that's British... By the way, the wheelchair and bicycle are also German inventions With electronics this is also quite a bit, for example. Ohm's law, X-rays, electron microscope, nuclear fission, laser, electric refrigerator, radar, microphones, MP3 and much more My favorites to shock Americans are the car, the Easter bunny, Christmas tree, jeans, hot dogs and hamburgers ...
You / The English or back then the Romans named us "Germany". As mentioned, we call ourselves "Deutschland" and only use the German* root for the historic Germanic Tribes. "Deutschland", land of those who are "deutsch". "Deutsch" as an adjective goes back to ur-German *þeudisk or theodiscus which basically just means "of the people" going back to the German/deutsche language which was the language of the people as opposed to Latin or French, the language of the clerics or nobles. The noun belonging to "deutsch" was lost in history.
Wow, thank you for your interest in Germany and this entertaining video❤. Yes, we invented a few things, the car, the computer, the microscope, the bicycle, the motorcycle, and, among other things, the microchip from the Zeiss company. President Trump has banned Germany from passing on the information about it to China. The jet plane, the combustion engine, the tram, the periodic table, micro bacteriology, the clock, the refrigerator, the camera and so on... but what really made me sad is you really don't get sugarcoins when you go to school? comes😢....🤘❤you are cool!😊
We had the German Mark or Deutsche Mark before the €uro came to life back in the EU in 1999. Before that, the €uro was not a thing. The name thing: Stein is German for stone and Berg is German for mountain ;) There are a lot of German names in the US, and even words like Kindergarden (Kindergarten) are used over there, as you might know. xD BTW, the continent of America (Amerika in GER) was given its name by a German cartographer. ;) Nobody gets arrested for running out of fuel on the Autobahn. This ain't the US where you get arrested for almost anything.
If you want to react to something "unusual" ... look up "In Extremo" and their song "Villeman Og Magnhild" (a norwegian song) or "Poc Vecem" (another older song). Make sure to get a live version ... [They sing in all kinds of languages from latin, old germanic, german and a bunch more ... and are vastly better than Rammstein.]
No, Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is 1 Word. We Germans love long compound words because they are very efficient.
You should read about operation paperclip. Germans brought you to the moon too. The college thing is mostly an American problem. Vocational training is important and doesn’t have a bad reputation like in the US
Thank you. This one is fun. In that spirit, none of the 'German' words the narrator pronounces sound even remotely German. That may be the reason why (based on this video) German sounds so difficult. Since this is meant to entertain more than educate and most of what was is fact adjacent, this a good way to hear stuff about Germany.👍
The Romans got the name from the Celts who lived in what is today France. They were speaking of "ger mani", which means "near men". Or simply "neighbours". There are so many names for us because most of our neighbours called us by whatever germanic tribe they happened to come into contact with. When will people finally stop doing the "has more bridges than Venice" line??? This is getting so old! Yes, Venice is on the water! But guess what: it's also not very big! Pretty much any sizeable city on this planet will have more bridges than Venice! Wether little baby Jesus or our version of Santa Claus brings christmas gifts actually comes down to if your family is religious or not. For me it has always been the "Weihnachtsmann", literally "christmas man". Of course at some point you realise that both of these figures are pure fiction. 😉 There were some other things that are somewhat misleading or misinterpreted but I didn't feel like this comment getting even longer... 😅
And again they ignore Hamburg with the bridges. Figures.... Hamburg ahs more bridges than this upstart of a city. At least our foundation date is only three digits. And yes, I know, Colonge and Trier are even older.
I'm surprised how little an American girl your age actually knows. Don't you learn anything at all in your schools? Is the general knowledge of American students under 18 so bad? Besides, Germans have invented even more things, such as the computer, television, the car, the bicycle, the rocket, the pocket calculator, the telephone, the MP3 format, the airbag in the car, x-rays, the electron microscope, the computer chip, ketchup, jeans, and much more...
The American education is actually rated the worst of all western countries. Friends whose children went to school there for an exchange year or who moved to America for a few years, work related, confirmed that. They all said, the level of the school education is far behind european standards, about two years behind and all topics are just scratched at the surface, never dug as deep as we do here. Add homeschooling to it, I have watched Moms on TH-cam who taught their children all subjects, no matter if they had a clue about it or not. One even taught her son Latin, although she never had a single latin lesson herself. Others skip science since they claim to be christians. No information about the age of the earth, evolution and such. In Germany you need years of University and, depending on the school form, a Bachelor or Master's degree to even teach two, maybe three subjects. In my opinion that explains a lot.
The thing you are forbitten to run out of gas on the Autobahn is, when you run out of gas you will (probably) stop on the Autobahn. You really won´t like when you stop on a street where the cars drive 125 miles/h and more. Might be a little bit dangerous......
I don't think german words are hard to learn (being german, hehe). they make sense. They mean what they say. Kinda like Latin. The really hard part is the grammar. Like a fork being female and a spoon male. Stuff like that. The different names come from the ancient tribes. i am from the black forrest f.e., which was habitated by the "allemannen". Since the area where i live borders france, that is where first contact was made. That's why the french called everything right from the rhine river "allmand". Same with "Saksa", which are the "Sachsen" tribe, which was north... "-stein" and "-berg" ending names were mainly german jewish last names. i think most of the german names were just transferred into english or pronounced english. Müller became Miller, Schmid became Smith and so on, while names like Wagner oder Mayer can easily be pronounced english.
If thr prisoners escape and get caught they have of course fullfill their original sentence. Also will get convicted for any new crime (including crimes conmitted to escape prison)
Your chair must renewed and have to respawn. maybe with addional leder for the Cat ;) I think u have to watch german invention thats change the world. and maybe our healhcare system and our landscape and school system... u will be suprised
"Going to University" and "Going to the University" is used to differentiate between studying at that institution and walking to a building/place of the university. In the German language you can use different articles to distinguish what you want to say. English lost most articles while it evolved from German to the English we have today. That's why the English language makes use of using or leaving the article in front of "University". Unfortunately, not everyone applies this rule correctly ;)
Why are people always asking why there are so many names for Germany around the world? It's called "languages"... The USA are called "Vereinigte Staaten" in Germany, "États Unis" in France and "Estados Unidos" in Spain 😁... Some folks met our Western tribes first, some were invadet by our Northern/Eastern people...
the names you list are merely different translation of “United States.“ What the video and she was referring to is the different names themselves: “Germania“ (as opposed to tedesco/deutsch), “Saksa,“ “Deutschland,“ or the Dutch “Duitsland,“ which all have different historical roots and are distinctly different words, not merely different translations…
Primarily the Romans called the Celts, Iberians, Helvetii, Thracians, Illyrians, and Sarmatians as Barbarians while the word Germany and the other similar-sounding names are all derived from the Latin Germania, of the 3rd century BC, a word simply describing fertile land behind the limes (frontier). It was likely the Gauls who first called the people who crossed east of the Rhine Germani (which the Romans adopted) as the original Germanic tribes did not refer to themselves as Germanus (singular) or Germani (plural). The german expression Deutschland and the other similar-sounding names derived from the Old High German diutisc, or similar variants from Proto-Germanic *Þeudiskaz (Old English þeod), which originally meant "of the people". But none of these roots had a similar meaning as Barbarian. Thats kinda Hollywood 😂 Oh BTW: Before the Bello Gallico, the the germanic tribes and „Germany“ were called Tungri by the Romans 😉
oh my god.... college or university should never be alone for ppl you descriped. every ppl of every circumstances should have the possibility to get a higher education. some will for sure fail this way. some will do good and some will be the future genies like einstein. but if you dont let all have access to such education the outcome of that is lower .... and so on . to put proper education behind a paywall ..... answer that to yourself please. greetings
The names of Germany are based of the local tribes. the tribe near frech was the Allemannen, so the Land is in frech named alemania,... Exept poland, this must somthing translate to "they dont understand" Ww2 was Germany Not Germany, they called self "3rd Reich" A legend says, the world language is english, but Did one giy votet for German, so the most comon learnd 2. language were German, is this true, i dont know American, which say they are German, because the grad grad gramdparents are German born. But this are American Not German (spain, frech,...) Because, we dont want that Trump say he is German 😂 We got more the 6 political parties, its difocult but in theory we can joce the Best combination... But lik the big 2 US Parties, all sucks and actual are New elections... And the AFD with Bad program but get with propaganda that get easy points of most German (Gas price to high? We low the price. U dont like Wind energy, we will put down this engins. U scare of rising crime by islamic, wie will sent they beck. U afraid of Gettin no Jobs, we send Not German back. We got no workers, no Problem we... Get no people that collect strawberrys... 🤔 Hm, is trump German? ) and if this Party get the call for Undeskanzler... It will tast like 1942
Your background music, - before the video, - is more related to BAVARIA, the US Americans' stereotypical idea of Germany, which is why this folk music is just annoying! Bavaria is NOT ALL of Germany, it is only one of 16 federal states! You might as well say that ONLY country music exists in the USA! “Mark” was the German currency! From the "German Empire" (1871-1918) to the “Weimar Republic” (1918-1933) to the “Third Reich” (1933-1945) it was called “Reichsmark”! From 1923-1948, parallel to the "Reichsmark" was the "Rentenmark" (pension mark), which was introduced because of hyperinflation 1923! Since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949) it was called the “Deutsche Mark” (D-Mark/DM) - at the same time the DDR (GDR), since 1949 the socialist East Germany, had the “DDR-Mark"! With reunification in 1990, there was once again a common German "Deutsche Mark" (D-Mark/DM), which was slowly replaced with the introduction of the European "Euro" on January 1st, 2002! "Stein" (German for stone), "Berg" (German for mountain)! Ski has nothing to do with winter sports, many Slavic (including Polish) names END with "-ski" (Kowalski, Petrowski, Podolski, Tscheikowski, Selenski...)! Although the swan became the king's trademark (inspired by a Wagner opera), King Ludwig II of Bavaria is referred to as the "Fairytale King" (because of his "fairytale castles", - yes, there are several!) "Schwanensee" (Swan Lake) has nothing to do with King Ludwig II - besides, it's NOT an OPERA, it's a BALLETT! "Richtgeschwindigkeit" (Recommended speed) 130km/h or ≈ 80,78 miles/h! Not entirely correct, - there are also names in Germany that are used for both genders (Toni, Kim, Maxi, Niki, Ulli, Luka, Mika, Daniele...)! The name "Maria" is definitely a common male middle name, e.g. Klaus Maria Brandauer (Austrian actor), Christoph Maria Herbst (German actor), Guido Maria Kretschmer (German fashion designer)! There is no penalty for escaping from prison itself (e.g. a sentence extension), only if they commit crimes while escaping will they be charged again for those crimes! The question is what trouble the prison and the responsible judicial authority will get into, because without the outbreak these crimes could not have been committed! The privilege of the “elite” to study at universities was not necessarily that they were smarter than others, but simply that they had more connections, influence and, above all, money at their disposal! WRONG! There are NOT 300 types of bread and rolls - there are OVER 3,200 types!!! The cathedral "Sagrada Família" in Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain), by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, was started in 1882! “Christkind” (Christ Child) is NOT an alternative name for “Santa Claus” - it has the same function! Although the “Christ Child” stands for the baby Jesus, it more closely resembles a small angel, depicted in a white robe and with white wings (sometimes with a halo or crown)! Originally Protestant, for Catholics it brings gifts on “Christmas Eve” (In Germany, gifts are given on the evening of December 24th); for Protestants, the bearer of gifts is “Weihnachtsmann” (literally translated as “Christmas Man)/”Santa Claus”! "Half 3" means half an hour before 3 o'clock! 15 minutes BEFORE 4 o'clock can be called "15 minutes before 4" or "quarter to 4", 15 minutes AFTER 4 o'clock can be called "15 minutes after 4" or "quarter past 4"! If you want to find out more about Germany, then I recommend the miniseries “Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 1-4”! In each of these four episodes, the different regions of Germany, their peculiarities and diversity are presented (landscapes, regional cuisine, dialects, traditions, folk festivals, etc.) - have fun! Part 1: Northern Germany th-cam.com/video/K-AbtBU3WzE/w-d-xo.html Part 2: Southern Germany th-cam.com/video/Td8yxkH5XzE/w-d-xo.html Part 3: Eastern Germany th-cam.com/video/jZtJdtXnOf4/w-d-xo.html Part 4: Western Germany th-cam.com/video/zJBf9cTa_eI/w-d-xo.html
The reason for the many names for Germany is, that Germany is a relatively new country, and it consisted of many tribes etc. before. The Saxonons, the Germanen ans so on. So the country is mostly named after the tribe the other country had the most contact with.
OMG soo many false information in there, but what ever. Mark = Deutsche Mark was the currency before there was a EURO. TBh, what annoys me a lot is, that the narrator mispronounciates A LOT ! He totally massacres my language. Grrrr. Fact about Hamburger: My city Hamburg has nothing to do with Hamburgers, and the name does NOT originate from there. So and last but not least about the longest registered german compound word: Donau-Dampfschiff-Fahrt-Elektrizität-Hauptbetrieb-Werkbau-Unter-Beamten-Gesellschaft is not even proven that a company ever existed with that name!
How the name came about in detail is unclear, but all - absolutely all - hypotheses revolve around the city of Hamburg. Especially since there is a centuries-old snack bar there that sells "warm round pieces", which are de facto hamburgers. Whether the word "Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft" was used in this way is irrelevant. It is the longest known German word that makes sense in itself. But if it fails because of the usage, we would also have: "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" and "Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung".
The division of Germany into Western Europe is correct if you think about it in the times of the Cold War. Today you would rather say Central Europe. The division of Europe into regions is political in nature. Most "Eastern Europeans" do not want to be Eastern Europeans because they do not want to be under the influence of Russia. The area between Germany and Russia was fought over between the two and most of the states there want to belong to Western Europe. That is why today people tend to say Central Europe to include the states east of Germany. The predicted decline in population does not have to happen like this. Many foreigners have come to the country because of the strong economy and wars. In the long term, Germany could compensate for its population losses if it accepted immigration. The majority of immigrants are Europeans. The term Germania existed before Caesar, who then described it more precisely (and incorrectly). The Romans themselves could not later explain the origin of the term. We do not know what the name means. The different names for Germany are explained here: Why Germany Has So Many Names (Exonyms Explained) (Deutsche) Mark was the national currency before the introduction of the pan-European currency Euro. The Austrians had Schilling, the French Franc,... Hasselhof is more successful in Austria than in Germany and also successful in Switzerland. His music sounds a lot like German pop music and thus like a German singer. He has a German producer. In the Middle Ages there was no capital because the emperor was elected. The capital was where the emperor was and under him there were still kings. Germany was never a centralized state like France or the UK. It's more like the USA. It only got a "real" capital in 1871 with Berlin. Berlin is the largest city, but not the largest metropolitan region. The name means something like "place in the swamp". The swamp doesn't exist anymore, but the water does. Expensive universities are not made for super-smart people, but for the rich. When the first universities were founded in Europe, the children of the rich went there, not the children of the poor. Their children could try to get into church institutions. Today's entrance tests are tailored to the children of the elite and their education, which is why they are more likely to be accepted, regardless of their intelligence. The streets in the historic city centers are all more or less narrow because people wanted to live behind the city walls. But 31 cm is extremely narrow. The legalization of prostitution enables prostitutes to assert their rights and collect taxes from the state. This was intended to protect prostitutes from customers and forced prostitution. The result is controversial.
This is is fact a very Polish centric perspective. Germans do not consider Central Europe to be a thing any more, that notion died in the 20th century. Germans see the East starting at the old border to the GDR, and every state that used to belong to the USSR is definitely EaST EurOPe!
2:00 The Germans with the driest humor are not Germans at all, but Masurians or their descendants (the Masovians were a West Slavic people living in the Polish Duchy of Masovia as well as in parts of the state of the Teutonic order in Poland; most of them became Lutheran as the Teutonic Order in Poland choose Protestantism and their state became the Polish Duchy of Prussia. Around 1526 Catholic counter-reformation arrived in Masovia, and many Masovians migrated to nearby Prussia, mixing with other settlers and thereby becoming the ethnic group known as Masurians. Like the Germans in Prussia most of them fled after WW II to West Germany or were expelled to East Germany.) 2:30 Deutsch is old German for "of the people"; originally it was used for the language in contrast to Latin, the language of scholars, priests and aristocrats. The designation "German" was invented by the Romans - it is unclear, on which basis, because there was never a tribe calling themselves "Germanic" ("germanus" in Latin would mean fraternal or genuine, therefore the origin was probably a Celtic word - either something like Old Gaelic 'gair' - neighbor or 'gairm' - (war) cry). 3:50 His pronunciation of German words is an English one, not a German one. A 'z' for example is pronounced more like 'ts' in German. And most Germans will pronounce a "st" far more soft, more like 'sht'. "Wetterstein" is literally "weather stone", less literally 'thunderstorm mountains'. ad 7) currently 85 million. ad 8) outdated. Population in East Germany started to decline even before reunification; after reunification many migrated to West Germans or to foreign countries. But in total population grew slowly, but steady 1990 - 2005, then declined until about 2011/2012 (80.3 million), since then grew again slightly every year. The current prediction for 2060 is a population of ~83 million. The main problem is however the ageing population - people live longer, but get less children. According to economists Germany needs therefore a yearly immigration rate of about 300,000 to 500,000 young people. ad 9) Those schools were mostly closed in East Germany, because younger people often migrated to the western states, where more job opportunities were available and wages were higher, and because state governments (in East and West) were searching for ways to cut expenses. Nowadays the problem is not to few children, but to few teachers, which is why schools are often merged together and smaller schools closed. The lowest birth rate in the EU has Italy, followed by Spain and Greece; Germany's birthrate is exactly at average in the EU. ad 13) As said above, the correct name is Deutschland. Nobody really knows where "Germany" comes from; most probably a Roman misunderstanding of some Celtic expression (Gaul / France as well as the now German, Swiss and Austrian regions south of river Danube were inhabited by Celtic people at the time and conquered by Rome between 125 BC and 15 BC). Later the Germanic tribe of the Franks (originally settling in the Lower Rhine region respectively the Netherlands and Belgium) conquered Gaul and founded the Frankish Empire, which also conquered the Alemannic (a federation of tribes whose name means "all together") kingdom (roughly east of river Rhine, south of river Main and north of the High Alps), defeated the Saxons (named after their preferred weapon, a short sword called sax) and annexed Bavaria (which is named after the Celtic Boii who gave also Bohemia its name). The Franks had the custom to divide their empire into kingdoms for each son, and in East Francia, consisting of the Alemannic, Saxon, (East) Frankish and Bavarian duchies, the Duchy of Alemannia (later renamed as Duchy of Swabia) was the wealthiest and therefore most important one. The Finnish came mostly in contact with Saxon Germans, so they named the country after them, and many Slavic people had difficulties communicating with the Germans, so they called them "mutes" (niemcy). ad 16) seems a bit biased. 1871 was more of a reunification than a first unification. The German Kingdom (and nation, but that expression meant not the same then as today) existed since around 950 AD (in 919 for the first time a Saxon noble was elected as king by the Frankish and Saxon nobles of East Francia; under his son Otto I the Great the denomination "Roman and German king" started to replace the title of King of East Francia; he became also King of Italy and Roman Emperor after marrying Adelaide of Burgundy, widow of the last Frankish king of Italy) until 1806 as the Holy Roman Empire (then already reduced to the kingdoms of Germany and Bohemia) was dissolved on order by Napoleon. After his defeat the German states could only agree on a loose federation (which eastern border followed the border of the former empire, so excluding most of Prussia as well as the Hungarian and Croatian parts of the Austrian Empire) under the presidency of Austria; Prussia left that federation in 1866, allied with Italy and defeated the federation, afterwards annexing most opposing states in northern Germany and forcing the southern states except Austria into mutual assistance pacts. This forced alliance then defeated France in 1871 and founded the new German Empire, a federation under the presidency of the Prussian king, adopting the title of "German Emperor" (but not "Emperor of Germany" because he was only first among equals among the other kingdoms and grand duchies).
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5:08 It is actually incorrect that the birthrates are low around the world. Fact is that the human population is increasing faster than ever before. India alone experienced a population growth of more than 400 million people in the last 25 years (just for reference: The population of the entire USA is 336 million).
Only the most developed countries suffer a pupulation decline, most countries in Africa, Asia and South America however make more than up for it with staggering population growth.
Here's another number to think about: At the end of World War 2 in 1945 the world's population was about 2 billion people.
On November 15 2022 however the world's population officially passed 8 billion people.
6:09 It was actually the name of one of the first "germanic" tribes the Romans encountered. And in true Roman fashion of using overarching terms for groups of people that had little in common in actual life they decided to call all of the peoples east of the Rhine by that name....just like they used the term Celts for a huge variety of peoples and the term Skyths for all the peoples living in what is modern day Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Many of the names for Deutschland in other languages originate from specific tribes - the Finish Saksa for example goes back to the ancient tribe of the Saxons (which later conquered England and had a huge impact of what is now called English people). The Saxons settled in what is now Northern Germany and where therefore more familiar to the peoples living further North.
The Alemanni are another tribe that settled in the area that is now Southern Germany - and to no surprise the Southern Europeans had more contact with them.
9:43 Well - as long as you realize that nothing about the so-called "reality" TV is real at all. It's all scripted and the people get roles assigned.
22:20 No you will not be arrested. You will be fined and have your license revoked though.
@Hauke-ph5ui Yep ... Syria for example QUINTUPLED its population over the last 60 years ... from 4,5 million to 22 million ... and then silly people in the West claim "global warming caused them problems".
For the US viewers: college isn’t equal to German University!
In Germany we have 4 kinds of school after elementary school, where pupils are sorted into their academic achievement level.
Hauptschule is geared towards a vocational training like plumber, carpenter, the like.
Realschule is geared more towards the merchant adjacent jobs.
Both of those are finished after 10th grade, some even leave school after 9th grade.
Gymnasium is SUPPOSED to be for the more academically gifted children, that will go on to study at university, so it finishes after 13-12 years (depends on the year) and you can apply directly to studies like medicine, psychology, vet-med and so on….depending on your grade average which is calculated by state/divided by the number of applicants. Tends to result in long waiting times if you don‘t have a 4,0 GDA
College in the US is a kind of intermediate step, where you are still required to take mandatory classes…this isn‘t the fact in Germany.
When we leave after 12 years with a passed ABITUR, we apply directly to Uni, not College.
College is basically the two to three years of school we have to spend starting tenth grade.
Austrian here: Sorry to correct you, but "College" is best translated to "Fakultät". Nothing you explained about the German educational system has anything to do with the topic you aimed.
@@kurteibensteiner2736 You are sadly misinformed.
American College is the first 4 years after High School, and then people move on towards what we call University, or end with a College degree which is akin to an Abitur.
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One of the significant differences between colleges and universities is the types of programs offered. Generally, colleges focus on undergraduate programs only, while universities provide a wide range of undergraduate, graduate and Ph. D.21.02.2024
@@lynnm6413 What to "they" (= the Americans) call it when they "move on towards what we call University" and get their bachelor degree? Do they call it "University" or do they call it "College"?
@@kurteibensteiner2736 depends on their study.
For a doctor, they do college for 4 years, then go to medical school for 4 years.
We just go to Uni or Medizinische Hochschule after school
Germany also invented computers, bikes, helicopters, the phone, pocket cam, a working printing press ecosystem (not just the adaptable printing machine but also fitting paper and ink) - and something very important => the Knopfloch (button hole) in the 13. century! ´(which changed the entire clothing of the medieval age of Europe and more and more the world)
There is a video called This is Germany by Dr. Ludwig. We have around 25,000 castles, palaces and churches.
Not being punishable for breaking out of prison does not mean the police is not chasing you or that you don't have to go back when caught. It just means you don't get extra prison time for the act of breaking out. Bu you do in most cases get additional time for damaging things, harming people or/and if you didn't break out naked for stealing at least the prison clothing.
You lose any privileges you might have achieved as well.
Thanks for this video, enjoyed it a lot. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany. 🙂
Fun fact: even you currency the Dollar comes from the "niederdeutschen" (a german dialekt) Daler which is the short form for the Joachimstaler a silver coin in the 16th century used in the Holy Roman Empire of German Nation.
Always surprised when Americans are surprised that in Germany you are not punished if you escape from prison.
USA, look at your neighbors, in Mexico you are not punished if you escape from prison either.
OK, in the USA prison is not rehabilitation but a business, 90% of all prisons are private companies.
More people are in prison in the USA than in Russia and China combined.
Of all third world countries, the USA is the worst.
The USA used to be the hope for free people, now the USA is the nightmare, I hope the USA can one day muster the strength to free itself from this, but the last election seems to have buried my wishes for the USA.
@alexanderblume5377 I'm sure US Americans give a sh.t about your "wishes for the USA".
We europeans are sending you thoughts and prayers, you'll need it lol.@GrouchoEngels
@@irgendan "Ignorance is bliss" and creates the delusion that "the USA is the greatest nation in the world" ... without any real proof for that, because "the ability to beat up every other country in the world" does not make anyone great ... just a bully.
The mark was the currency before the euro. But the name of the currency had had a number of changes over its time
I look forward to seeing more of Germany on your channel, best regards from Berlin 😊💓
A Gutenberg bibel costs arround 4,6 million €
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If a culture is over 2000 years old, it happens that people gets several names from the other cultures. As a German, it's just annoying to me that our culture and history is limited to WWI and WWII. The centuries in which the Germans spread writing (printing), language and inventions across the world and more are simply forgotten. For example, the English language emerged from Germanic, as the Angel Saxons were the first settlers in England. That's why there are a lot of similarities and Germans usually have no problem learning English.
Sorry, that’s BS. It has nothing to do with „getting names“. It’s just the same in different languages.
A fruit grown on a tree is only in english called „apple“. In french, german, italian whatever it is called different. Different languages have different words for the same thing.
The main Volkswagen facility in Wolfsburg produces more currywurst than cars. The VW currywurst has a partnumber and can be ordered by VW dealers in Germany through the spare part system.
german is actually quite easy to learn for natural english speakers, since we share alot of words. the different names for germany from other countries comes due to the different kingdoms that merged together as germany
The naming rules are implemented to protect the child and the child's rights as a human being - so naming your kid after brand names, random items,, swear words, religious names like "christ" or "God" , bad people from history or in some cases really bad given name/surname combinations is prohibited. For parents a weird name might sound cool , funny or unique, but imagine the kid being constantly ridiculed in school.
A "Mark" is a weight messurement like pounds an kilo. One Mark eventualy bekame the name of the curency. One Mark was around 234gr of Silver
Reaction suggestion: Dinner for one. The version from Germany, not the Swiss one or any of the newer ones. Many Americans have already reacted to it, it's so much fun. No need for subtitles there, since the few words spoken are all in English.
Nice reaction and more important i will check out your JFK Newspaper Video! Greetings
Don't confuse being rich with being smart. Education was just limited to the elites because they had the money to sit in a room all day and educate themselves, not because they where smarter. Public education is the main reason for our rapid technological advancements, because now we have a lot more heads to think about problems and potential solutions to these problems.
About this "College thing": Now we see very clearly how extremely important good education is. For everybody. Not just for those who want to achieve higher academic goals. That's why Germany has free education for all. The whole country benefits from well educated people on many levels, no matter what kind of job they'll do. Well educated are taught to ask questions, critical thinking and also how to find answers/solutions. Rheydt are taught to not just shrug their shoulders and say: I don't know, but how to find the needed information. They are taught to not simply follow orders, but to ask, if something is reasonable. The better educated people are, the less likely they will also be racists or fall for people who claim to have simple solutions for very complex problems, many studies showed. So, for example, if somebody tells you, another country will pay for your tariffs, you either know that won't happen or you know how to educate yourself on that topic.
was funny to watch it with you, greetings from Bavaria
Love your reaction videos.
I am a The Warning fan from Germany.
Best regards from Regensburg.
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If you want to start learning german ... start with the A B C ... which is quite different from the "eyyy bee see", but if you master it the pronounciation of words will become easier.
different names for Germany are due to historical and geographical reasons that have to do with the many different German tribes throughout history (Germany was first unified as ONE nation in 1870-71! Before, it was a conglomeration of independent Dukedoms and small states). Take the Finnish „Saksa“ which refers to what the English would call „Saxons,“ a northern tribe that eventually migrated to England…. „Deutsche Mark“ was the pre-Euro German currency from 1945 on. Like Italy had the Lira, England had the Pound, the French had the Francs etc.
To the Romans back then, "Germania" meant something like "Barbarian".
Germany - Ger man, . A Ger is a wapon, man means, of course, man. other countrys name Deutschland after different german Tribes.
A spear, to be exact...
18:32 why do we switch the capital all the time? What he just explained were about 1500 years of history. In this 1500 years of history our "capital" moved many times. First it can be considered Aachen, than it moved to Frankfurt for a short time, than it was wien (vienna) and after "the brother war" (the war between the northgerman conferderation, lead by prusssia and the south german states lead by austria) the capital moved to berlin. After ww2 germany was divided into two parts. Tge west adopted Bonn as its capital because Berlin aas divided aswell into west-germany controlled west Berlin and east-germany controlled east Berlin. After unification it became Berlin again. I have shurly missed several citys that had the honour but this are the major ones.
Prices went in a span of 9 months from 1 Mark(the standard unit like Dollar or Euro)to almost a trillion.that's inflation.
To make things a little easier for you... There are actually 2 units of measurement in the imperial system that can be easily converted using the metric values. One is yards and the other is pounds. A yard is about 0.9 meters. So for a distance in meters, you only need to take yards and then add 10%. 100 meters are then 110 yards. The pound is a very common unit of weight in Europe. For example, when you buy meat from the butcher. However, our pound is half a kilogram, so 500g. An American pound, however, only weighs about 450 grams. And here, 2 pounds for a kilogram and then add 10% again. And again the example... 100 kilograms is 220 pounds. So if you think in yards instead of feet, you can easily compare sizes and heights. And 40 inches are also about 1 meter...
20) The "galloping inflation" after the Mark was not longer backed by gold (since the central bank had no gold any more after WW I). The absolute sums were not the real problem, but the _daily_ inflation rate. If you sold something in the morning you had to run to buy something else before your money lost all its worth. Since the central bank could not print new bills fast enough, municipalities started to issue their own "emergency money" with bills which had face values of half a million, one million Mark or more. Some toilets were wallpapered with such bills as base wallpaper because that was cheaper than buying a real base wallpaper. In the end they solved it with a currency reform, switching to the Rentenmark (backed by obligatory mortgages on all commercially used real estate) at a exchange rate of trillion Mark for one Rentenmark. The gold backed Mark had been introduced in 1871 as currency. In 1924 the Reichsmark (Imperial Mark) was reintroduced at a exchange rate of 1:1 to the Rentenmark. In 1948 it was after another currency reform in West Germany replaced by the DM (Deutsche Mark), which became the strongest currency within Europe until it was itself replaced by the Euro.
21) That is an internet myth. Most younger Germans never heard of Hasselhoff; older ones knew him from TV series like Knight Rider or Baywatch. In 1988/1989 he had a short hype as singer in Austria. The mother-in-law of German music producer Jack White aka Horst Nußbaum saw Hasselhoff in a TV show and recommended him to White, who had in 1978 written a song "Looking for Freedom", first sung by a singer named Marc Seaberg aka Franz Seeberger. White and Hasselhoff produced a new record of this song, which became a hit in Germany in 1989 shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The public broadcasting company ZDF invited Hasselhoff to sing it at their Open Air New Years' party at the Brandenburg Gate 1989/1990. His fame ended however soon after. (And the participants of "celebrity big brother" are mostly former small celebrities who hope for some revival.)
23) Albert Einstein was born in Ulm in the Kingdom of Württemberg (as descendant of Jewish families from nearby Buchau). He went to Zurich to study and refused to come back for the obligatory military service in 1896, by which he lost his citizenship in Württemberg and the German Empire. In 1901 he gained the Swiss citizenship. 1911/12 he had additionally the Austrian citizenship since he worked as university professor in Prague. In 1914 he got a professorship at Berlin university which included the Prussian and later German citizenship; he renounced it in 1993 after Hitler came in power. He worked then in Princeton and got in 1940 the US citizenship - but he always thought of himself as a Swiss citizen and of Zurich as his hometown. So, no, he was Swiss!
25) Only half true. The brand Fanta was invented by Coca-Cola Germany as sanctions prevented the import of the original Coca-Cola syrup, but it was not made from oranges, but from apple peels and other waste products. The orange based drink was invented some years later in Italy and inherited only the name.
Number 46 is wrong. Berlin has 2 zoos (Zoo+Tierpark), the Tierpark is the largest zoo in Europe.
6:13 Been a few years since i did my latinum but if i recall correctly something the lines of ' large & germania just refered to how they called the land ', but generly the romans feared the german tribes and saw them as mad man living in forrests, somewhat between animals and humans and yet very skilled at war fare and the romans activly tryd and recruit them for there own military in command postions. It was a wierd a relationship you could say.
when he mentioned 'Wetterstein' your reaction 'it sounds really hard' is typical for one who has the WRONG VIEW on German. general rule: native (or other) English-speaker who are aware about their own language and also know about that German, English, Dutch etc. are related West Germanic languages for a reason have LESS difficulties than people (Germans or English) who lack of this knowledge. People without much awareness think its a totally different language while people with awareness know that they not only have a lot in common but also share a lot of even more (due to the influx of academic) greek/latin. This means in this case: with awareness it should be obvious that 'Wetter' is exactly the same word as 'Weather' with the same roots (cognates) and 'Stone/Stein' are also cognates (Wetterstein = Weather Stone). Totally easy if you have the right perspective (which means you are able to look for similar patterns), difficult if you have not (superficially thinking everything is different without much focus on the reality in front of the nose)
the population of Germany is not shrinking but raising (due to migration, just like in the US or UK - which btw. has a similar population to France. Germany is usually ahead (already at the medieval era when it was the Holy Roman Empire this part of Central Europe was the most populated) while UK/France came behind within the classic Western countries. The schools closed not due to a shrinking population but due to a further urbanization which you also have in all Western countries (and others even more)
41:20 Incorrect ... the rule is "minutes to the next hour" differentiated by "to / after" ... with the special case of "half", which is "halfway to the next hour".
You don't F with the McRib!!!😅
This is just the beginning of your journey to learn more about Germany. So, a warm welcome to you!
MP 3 standard for digital musik
You dont get arrested if you run out of full, but you get a fine. But to be honest, its not so hard to check your fuel level if you want to drive on the autobahn. There is no reason to run out of fuel. If you are to lazy to check your cars full, oil , water or air, dont drive.
Btw, in Germany it is very hard to get arrestet. Its not like in the US.
As a german, I have never heard somthing like "rend a jaw". This sound odd.
99 and 100 are currently not true anymore. We can watch all videos and the longest word is not anymore in the Duden book anymore (its a old world).
A fine and the cops are often still very helpful, my car broke down 200m before an exit on the Autobahn and they pulled my car out there, because it was a hot summer day they gave me cold water and because i didn't have my phone with me, one cop called the automobile club for me, because it was not the gas but as i later found out an broken alternator, i did not get a fine, just help.
There are some Videos about german inventions, too... just a new reaction tip =) greetings from Germany
Yes😊 Hi from Germany 😊
I really like your reactions. You are a sweet and intelligent young woman. I wish your channel the very best.
PS this guy doesn’t know how to pronounce German, it sounds much better with a native speaker.
Had to be evacuated twice because of unexploded bombs since I moved to a big city in Germany 10 years ago- those bomb findings happen at such a regular base that it is almost "normal" - apart from the part where you have to spend the night together with hundreds of strangers in a school gym. ;-)
In regards to escaping, the prior convition does not vanish.
36:50 we only hit the gas and didnt stop between 1939 and 1945
oh and squared pillows are only decorations for like couches and stuff, we have regular pillows lol
Germanys population isn't even declining. it's just going up for the last 3 years or so. mostly because of immigration i think. it's around 84-85 million curently
Germany needs about 500,000 immigrants every year to maintain our pension/welfare system.
In the last 10 years, immigrants have founded over 25,000 companies and employ over 2,000,000 people (more than the auto industry).
@@alexanderblume5377thx for digging up some stats
According to the population projection based on the census before 2011, we would have a population of 84,079,811 in 2022. However, the 2022 census reports 82,719,540. The Federal Statistical Office also reports a population of 82.7 million on its homepage.
@@SlimNesbitt-p6s for me that page says 83,5 but that isn‘t even completely up to date. Somewhere on there, there are even newer numbers
@minecraftprovie To dig up some more stats: "immigration" cost in 2023 were 48,200,000,000 euros (48,2 billion).
There are many more inventions from Germany, for example. Everything that has an engine and moves is a German invention and so is the engine, whether diesel, electric, petrol, jet engine, even rocket engines, the only exception are steam engines, that's British...
By the way, the wheelchair and bicycle are also German inventions
With electronics this is also quite a bit, for example. Ohm's law, X-rays, electron microscope, nuclear fission, laser, electric refrigerator, radar, microphones, MP3 and much more
My favorites to shock Americans are the car, the Easter bunny, Christmas tree, jeans, hot dogs and hamburgers ...
Ofc one shouldn't forget the modern Computer too.
The European Mc Rip, Fanta Sprite and Dr. Pepper also taste completely different than the American one
You / The English or back then the Romans named us "Germany". As mentioned, we call ourselves "Deutschland" and only use the German* root for the historic Germanic Tribes. "Deutschland", land of those who are "deutsch". "Deutsch" as an adjective goes back to ur-German *þeudisk or theodiscus which basically just means "of the people" going back to the German/deutsche language which was the language of the people as opposed to Latin or French, the language of the clerics or nobles. The noun belonging to "deutsch" was lost in history.
Wow, thank you for your interest in Germany and this entertaining video❤. Yes, we invented a few things, the car, the computer, the microscope, the bicycle, the motorcycle, and, among other things, the microchip from the Zeiss company. President Trump has banned Germany from passing on the information about it to China. The jet plane, the combustion engine, the tram, the periodic table, micro bacteriology, the clock, the refrigerator, the camera and so on... but what really made me sad is you really don't get sugarcoins when you go to school? comes😢....🤘❤you are cool!😊
We had the German Mark or Deutsche Mark before the €uro came to life back in the EU in 1999.
Before that, the €uro was not a thing.
The name thing: Stein is German for stone and Berg is German for mountain ;)
There are a lot of German names in the US, and even words like Kindergarden (Kindergarten) are used over there, as you might know. xD
BTW, the continent of America (Amerika in GER) was given its name by a German cartographer. ;)
Nobody gets arrested for running out of fuel on the Autobahn. This ain't the US where you get arrested for almost anything.
If you want to react to something "unusual" ... look up "In Extremo" and their song "Villeman Og Magnhild" (a norwegian song) or "Poc Vecem" (another older song). Make sure to get a live version ...
[They sing in all kinds of languages from latin, old germanic, german and a bunch more ... and are vastly better than Rammstein.]
Nice and funny vigeo , from berlin
28:31 the McRib differs between the US and Germany.
28:00 MacRib - come to Germany, get a try on a german MacRib; it's so much better than what you get in the USA.
No, Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is 1 Word. We Germans love long compound words because they are very efficient.
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What German meant to the Romans: Spear men
You should read about operation paperclip. Germans brought you to the moon too.
The college thing is mostly an American problem. Vocational training is important and doesn’t have a bad reputation like in the US
Venice is tiny compared to Berlin ... maybe you should look at a map of Berlin and you'll understand.
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Thank you. This one is fun. In that spirit, none of the 'German' words the narrator pronounces sound even remotely German. That may be the reason why (based on this video) German sounds so difficult. Since this is meant to entertain more than educate and most of what was is fact adjacent, this a good way to hear stuff about Germany.👍
having not enough kids, in germany actually no problem, u dont have to sell a house to give birth, unlike in the USA
The Romans got the name from the Celts who lived in what is today France. They were speaking of "ger mani", which means "near men". Or simply "neighbours".
There are so many names for us because most of our neighbours called us by whatever germanic tribe they happened to come into contact with.
When will people finally stop doing the "has more bridges than Venice" line??? This is getting so old! Yes, Venice is on the water! But guess what: it's also not very big! Pretty much any sizeable city on this planet will have more bridges than Venice!
Wether little baby Jesus or our version of Santa Claus brings christmas gifts actually comes down to if your family is religious or not. For me it has always been the "Weihnachtsmann", literally "christmas man". Of course at some point you realise that both of these figures are pure fiction. 😉
There were some other things that are somewhat misleading or misinterpreted but I didn't feel like this comment getting even longer... 😅
Germany is called by different names in other countries Allemagne , Germania ,Nemecko, Tyskland,Alemania etc etc.
And again they ignore Hamburg with the bridges. Figures.... Hamburg ahs more bridges than this upstart of a city. At least our foundation date is only three digits. And yes, I know, Colonge and Trier are even older.
I'm surprised how little an American girl your age actually knows. Don't you learn anything at all in your schools? Is the general knowledge of American students under 18 so bad? Besides, Germans have invented even more things, such as the computer, television, the car, the bicycle, the rocket, the pocket calculator, the telephone, the MP3 format, the airbag in the car, x-rays, the electron microscope, the computer chip, ketchup, jeans, and much more...
The American education is actually rated the worst of all western countries. Friends whose children went to school there for an exchange year or who moved to America for a few years, work related, confirmed that. They all said, the level of the school education is far behind european standards, about two years behind and all topics are just scratched at the surface, never dug as deep as we do here. Add homeschooling to it, I have watched Moms on TH-cam who taught their children all subjects, no matter if they had a clue about it or not. One even taught her son Latin, although she never had a single latin lesson herself. Others skip science since they claim to be christians. No information about the age of the earth, evolution and such. In Germany you need years of University and, depending on the school form, a Bachelor or Master's degree to even teach two, maybe three subjects. In my opinion that explains a lot.
Long Time ago... As soon i have Money i think of leaving my beloved Country! Even Cuba is on my list, guess why!
And not the "climate change"
The thing you are forbitten to run out of gas on the Autobahn is, when you run out of gas you will (probably) stop on the Autobahn. You really won´t like when you stop on a street where the cars drive 125 miles/h and more. Might be a little bit dangerous......
I don't think german words are hard to learn (being german, hehe). they make sense. They mean what they say. Kinda like Latin. The really hard part is the grammar. Like a fork being female and a spoon male. Stuff like that. The different names come from the ancient tribes. i am from the black forrest f.e., which was habitated by the "allemannen". Since the area where i live borders france, that is where first contact was made. That's why the french called everything right from the rhine river "allmand". Same with "Saksa", which are the "Sachsen" tribe, which was north... "-stein" and "-berg" ending names were mainly german jewish last names. i think most of the german names were just transferred into english or pronounced english. Müller became Miller, Schmid became Smith and so on, while names like Wagner oder Mayer can easily be pronounced english.
fake pronounced and so on...for klikbait 🤣... and all no germans think this is germany 🤣🤣🤣
If thr prisoners escape and get caught they have of course fullfill their original sentence. Also will get convicted for any new crime (including crimes conmitted to escape prison)
Hasselhoff is / always has been "a cringey meme" (even before memes existed ... in the late 80s).
Deutsche Mark the Money in Germany
Your chair must renewed and have to respawn. maybe with addional leder for the Cat ;) I think u have to watch german invention thats change the world. and maybe our healhcare system and our landscape and school system... u will be suprised
"Going to University" and "Going to the University" is used to differentiate between studying at that institution and walking to a building/place of the university.
In the German language you can use different articles to distinguish what you want to say. English lost most articles while it evolved from German to the English we have today. That's why the English language makes use of using or leaving the article in front of "University". Unfortunately, not everyone applies this rule correctly ;)
I would advise you to make a taste test ... american Fanta vs. european Fanta ... you'll be surprised and might start living healthier.
Why are people always asking why there are so many names for Germany around the world? It's called "languages"... The USA are called "Vereinigte Staaten" in Germany, "États Unis" in France and "Estados Unidos" in Spain 😁... Some folks met our Western tribes first, some were invadet by our Northern/Eastern people...
the names you list are merely different translation of “United States.“ What the video and she was referring to is the different names themselves: “Germania“ (as opposed to tedesco/deutsch), “Saksa,“ “Deutschland,“ or the Dutch “Duitsland,“ which all have different historical roots and are distinctly different words, not merely different translations…
The german of the speaker is so bad, i cant unterstand it.
The Romans called all Tribes Germanen, what means Barbarians in their language. So germany is the Land of the barbarians.
Primarily the Romans called the
Celts, Iberians, Helvetii, Thracians, Illyrians, and Sarmatians as Barbarians while the word Germany and the other similar-sounding names are all derived from the Latin Germania, of the 3rd century BC, a word simply describing fertile land behind the limes (frontier). It was likely the Gauls who first called the people who crossed east of the Rhine Germani (which the Romans adopted) as the original Germanic tribes did not refer to themselves as Germanus (singular) or Germani (plural).
The german expression Deutschland and the other similar-sounding names derived from the Old High German diutisc, or similar variants from Proto-Germanic *Þeudiskaz (Old English þeod), which originally meant "of the people".
But none of these roots had a similar meaning as Barbarian. Thats kinda Hollywood 😂
Oh BTW: Before the Bello Gallico, the the germanic tribes and „Germany“ were called Tungri by the Romans 😉
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oh my god.... college or university should never be alone for ppl you descriped. every ppl of every circumstances should have the possibility to get a higher education. some will for sure fail this way. some will do good and some will be the future genies like einstein. but if you dont let all have access to such education the outcome of that is lower .... and so on . to put proper education behind a paywall ..... answer that to yourself please.
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He doesnt really speak german ... only "anglified german".
3000 not 300 different breads.
English people correctly say German🤣😂🤣😂
Erkältung = Cold 🤔 so?
The names of Germany are based of the local tribes. the tribe near frech was the Allemannen, so the Land is in frech named alemania,... Exept poland, this must somthing translate to "they dont understand"
Ww2 was Germany Not Germany, they called self "3rd Reich"
A legend says, the world language is english, but Did one giy votet for German, so the most comon learnd 2. language were German, is this true, i dont know
American, which say they are German, because the grad grad gramdparents are German born. But this are American Not German (spain, frech,...)
Because, we dont want that Trump say he is German 😂
We got more the 6 political parties, its difocult but in theory we can joce the Best combination... But lik the big 2 US Parties, all sucks and actual are New elections... And the AFD with Bad program but get with propaganda that get easy points of most German (Gas price to high? We low the price. U dont like Wind energy, we will put down this engins. U scare of rising crime by islamic, wie will sent they beck. U afraid of Gettin no Jobs, we send Not German back. We got no workers, no Problem we... Get no people that collect strawberrys... 🤔 Hm, is trump German? ) and if this Party get the call for Undeskanzler... It will tast like 1942
21 ( 9:05 ) is still not true ;)
Almost nobody here loves or even likes "The Hoff"
2000 + years of history "explained" in less than 10 minutes... time to leave this nonsens
Your background music, - before the video, - is more related to BAVARIA, the US Americans' stereotypical idea of Germany, which is why this folk music is just annoying! Bavaria is NOT ALL of Germany, it is only one of 16 federal states! You might as well say that ONLY country music exists in the USA!
“Mark” was the German currency! From the "German Empire" (1871-1918) to the “Weimar Republic” (1918-1933) to the “Third Reich” (1933-1945) it was called “Reichsmark”! From 1923-1948, parallel to the "Reichsmark" was the "Rentenmark" (pension mark), which was introduced because of hyperinflation 1923! Since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949) it was called the “Deutsche Mark” (D-Mark/DM) - at the same time the DDR (GDR), since 1949 the socialist East Germany, had the “DDR-Mark"! With reunification in 1990, there was once again a common German "Deutsche Mark" (D-Mark/DM), which was slowly replaced with the introduction of the European "Euro" on January 1st, 2002!
"Stein" (German for stone), "Berg" (German for mountain)! Ski has nothing to do with winter sports, many Slavic (including Polish) names END with "-ski" (Kowalski, Petrowski, Podolski, Tscheikowski, Selenski...)!
Although the swan became the king's trademark (inspired by a Wagner opera), King Ludwig II of Bavaria is referred to as the "Fairytale King" (because of his "fairytale castles", - yes, there are several!)
"Schwanensee" (Swan Lake) has nothing to do with King Ludwig II - besides, it's NOT an OPERA, it's a BALLETT!
"Richtgeschwindigkeit" (Recommended speed) 130km/h or ≈ 80,78 miles/h!
Not entirely correct, - there are also names in Germany that are used for both genders (Toni, Kim, Maxi, Niki, Ulli, Luka, Mika, Daniele...)! The name "Maria" is definitely a common male middle name, e.g. Klaus Maria Brandauer (Austrian actor), Christoph Maria Herbst (German actor), Guido Maria Kretschmer (German fashion designer)!
There is no penalty for escaping from prison itself (e.g. a sentence extension), only if they commit crimes while escaping will they be charged again for those crimes! The question is what trouble the prison and the responsible judicial authority will get into, because without the outbreak these crimes could not have been committed!
The privilege of the “elite” to study at universities was not necessarily that they were smarter than others, but simply that they had more connections, influence and, above all, money at their disposal!
WRONG! There are NOT 300 types of bread and rolls - there are OVER 3,200 types!!!
The cathedral "Sagrada Família" in Barcelona (Catalonia/Spain), by the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, was started in 1882!
“Christkind” (Christ Child) is NOT an alternative name for “Santa Claus” - it has the same function! Although the “Christ Child” stands for the baby Jesus, it more closely resembles a small angel, depicted in a white robe and with white wings (sometimes with a halo or crown)! Originally Protestant, for Catholics it brings gifts on “Christmas Eve” (In Germany, gifts are given on the evening of December 24th); for Protestants, the bearer of gifts is “Weihnachtsmann” (literally translated as “Christmas Man)/”Santa Claus”!
"Half 3" means half an hour before 3 o'clock! 15 minutes BEFORE 4 o'clock can be called "15 minutes before 4" or "quarter to 4", 15 minutes AFTER 4 o'clock can be called "15 minutes after 4" or "quarter past 4"!
If you want to find out more about Germany, then I recommend the miniseries “Meet the Germans Road Trip Part 1-4”! In each of these four episodes, the different regions of Germany, their peculiarities and diversity are presented (landscapes, regional cuisine, dialects, traditions, folk festivals, etc.) - have fun!
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Lady... country names are diffrent in EVERY language. Wtf :D
The reason for the many names for Germany is, that Germany is a relatively new country, and it consisted of many tribes etc. before. The Saxonons, the Germanen ans so on. So the country is mostly named after the tribe the other country had the most contact with.
OMG soo many false information in there, but what ever. Mark = Deutsche Mark was the currency before there was a EURO. TBh, what annoys me a lot is, that the narrator mispronounciates A LOT ! He totally massacres my language. Grrrr. Fact about Hamburger: My city Hamburg has nothing to do with Hamburgers, and the name does NOT originate from there. So and last but not least about the longest registered german compound word: Donau-Dampfschiff-Fahrt-Elektrizität-Hauptbetrieb-Werkbau-Unter-Beamten-Gesellschaft is not even proven that a company ever existed with that name!
How the name came about in detail is unclear, but all - absolutely all - hypotheses revolve around the city of Hamburg.
Especially since there is a centuries-old snack bar there that sells "warm round pieces", which are de facto hamburgers.
Whether the word "Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft" was used in this way is irrelevant. It is the longest known German word that makes sense in itself.
But if it fails because of the usage, we would also have:
"Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz"
and
"Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung".
The division of Germany into Western Europe is correct if you think about it in the times of the Cold War. Today you would rather say Central Europe. The division of Europe into regions is political in nature. Most "Eastern Europeans" do not want to be Eastern Europeans because they do not want to be under the influence of Russia. The area between Germany and Russia was fought over between the two and most of the states there want to belong to Western Europe. That is why today people tend to say Central Europe to include the states east of Germany.
The predicted decline in population does not have to happen like this. Many foreigners have come to the country because of the strong economy and wars. In the long term, Germany could compensate for its population losses if it accepted immigration. The majority of immigrants are Europeans.
The term Germania existed before Caesar, who then described it more precisely (and incorrectly). The Romans themselves could not later explain the origin of the term. We do not know what the name means. The different names for Germany are explained here:
Why Germany Has So Many Names (Exonyms Explained)
(Deutsche) Mark was the national currency before the introduction of the pan-European currency Euro. The
Austrians had Schilling, the French Franc,...
Hasselhof is more successful in Austria than in Germany and also successful in Switzerland. His music sounds a lot like German pop music and thus like a German singer. He has a German producer.
In the Middle Ages there was no capital because the emperor was elected. The capital was where the emperor was and under him there were still kings. Germany was never a centralized state like France or the UK. It's more like the USA. It only got a "real" capital in 1871 with Berlin.
Berlin is the largest city, but not the largest metropolitan region. The name means something like "place in the swamp". The swamp doesn't exist anymore, but the water does.
Expensive universities are not made for super-smart people, but for the rich. When the first universities were founded in Europe, the children of the rich went there, not the children of the poor. Their children could try to get into church institutions. Today's entrance tests are tailored to the children of the elite and their education, which is why they are more likely to be accepted, regardless of their intelligence.
The streets in the historic city centers are all more or less narrow because people wanted to live behind the city walls. But 31 cm is extremely narrow.
The legalization of prostitution enables prostitutes to assert their rights and collect taxes from the state. This was intended to protect prostitutes from customers and forced prostitution. The result is controversial.
This is is fact a very Polish centric perspective.
Germans do not consider Central Europe to be a thing any more, that notion died in the 20th century.
Germans see the East starting at the old border to the GDR, and every state that used to belong to the USSR is definitely EaST EurOPe!
DeutschLAND
2:00 The Germans with the driest humor are not Germans at all, but Masurians or their descendants (the Masovians were a West Slavic people living in the Polish Duchy of Masovia as well as in parts of the state of the Teutonic order in Poland; most of them became Lutheran as the Teutonic Order in Poland choose Protestantism and their state became the Polish Duchy of Prussia. Around 1526 Catholic counter-reformation arrived in Masovia, and many Masovians migrated to nearby Prussia, mixing with other settlers and thereby becoming the ethnic group known as Masurians. Like the Germans in Prussia most of them fled after WW II to West Germany or were expelled to East Germany.)
2:30 Deutsch is old German for "of the people"; originally it was used for the language in contrast to Latin, the language of scholars, priests and aristocrats. The designation "German" was invented by the Romans - it is unclear, on which basis, because there was never a tribe calling themselves "Germanic" ("germanus" in Latin would mean fraternal or genuine, therefore the origin was probably a Celtic word - either something like Old Gaelic 'gair' - neighbor or 'gairm' - (war) cry).
3:50 His pronunciation of German words is an English one, not a German one. A 'z' for example is pronounced more like 'ts' in German. And most Germans will pronounce a "st" far more soft, more like 'sht'. "Wetterstein" is literally "weather stone", less literally 'thunderstorm mountains'.
ad 7) currently 85 million.
ad 8) outdated. Population in East Germany started to decline even before reunification; after reunification many migrated to West Germans or to foreign countries. But in total population grew slowly, but steady 1990 - 2005, then declined until about 2011/2012 (80.3 million), since then grew again slightly every year. The current prediction for 2060 is a population of ~83 million.
The main problem is however the ageing population - people live longer, but get less children. According to economists Germany needs therefore a yearly immigration rate of about 300,000 to 500,000 young people.
ad 9) Those schools were mostly closed in East Germany, because younger people often migrated to the western states, where more job opportunities were available and wages were higher, and because state governments (in East and West) were searching for ways to cut expenses. Nowadays the problem is not to few children, but to few teachers, which is why schools are often merged together and smaller schools closed. The lowest birth rate in the EU has Italy, followed by Spain and Greece; Germany's birthrate is exactly at average in the EU.
ad 13) As said above, the correct name is Deutschland. Nobody really knows where "Germany" comes from; most probably a Roman misunderstanding of some Celtic expression (Gaul / France as well as the now German, Swiss and Austrian regions south of river Danube were inhabited by Celtic people at the time and conquered by Rome between 125 BC and 15 BC). Later the Germanic tribe of the Franks (originally settling in the Lower Rhine region respectively the Netherlands and Belgium) conquered Gaul and founded the Frankish Empire, which also conquered the Alemannic (a federation of tribes whose name means "all together") kingdom (roughly east of river Rhine, south of river Main and north of the High Alps), defeated the Saxons (named after their preferred weapon, a short sword called sax) and annexed Bavaria (which is named after the Celtic Boii who gave also Bohemia its name). The Franks had the custom to divide their empire into kingdoms for each son, and in East Francia, consisting of the Alemannic, Saxon, (East) Frankish and Bavarian duchies, the Duchy of Alemannia (later renamed as Duchy of Swabia) was the wealthiest and therefore most important one. The Finnish came mostly in contact with Saxon Germans, so they named the country after them, and many Slavic people had difficulties communicating with the Germans, so they called them "mutes" (niemcy).
ad 16) seems a bit biased. 1871 was more of a reunification than a first unification. The German Kingdom (and nation, but that expression meant not the same then as today) existed since around 950 AD (in 919 for the first time a Saxon noble was elected as king by the Frankish and Saxon nobles of East Francia; under his son Otto I the Great the denomination "Roman and German king" started to replace the title of King of East Francia; he became also King of Italy and Roman Emperor after marrying Adelaide of Burgundy, widow of the last Frankish king of Italy) until 1806 as the Holy Roman Empire (then already reduced to the kingdoms of Germany and Bohemia) was dissolved on order by Napoleon. After his defeat the German states could only agree on a loose federation (which eastern border followed the border of the former empire, so excluding most of Prussia as well as the Hungarian and Croatian parts of the Austrian Empire) under the presidency of Austria; Prussia left that federation in 1866, allied with Italy and defeated the federation, afterwards annexing most opposing states in northern Germany and forcing the southern states except Austria into mutual assistance pacts. This forced alliance then defeated France in 1871 and founded the new German Empire, a federation under the presidency of the Prussian king, adopting the title of "German Emperor" (but not "Emperor of Germany" because he was only first among equals among the other kingdoms and grand duchies).
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-stein, -berg, -witz, -gold, etc. in almost all cases are ethnically Jewish, not German