Germany: 7 Fun Facts about German Traditions and Best Destinations

For most people Germany is associated with technological power and socio-economical advancements, which took place in the country over the past years but this country has a lot of things it can easily surprise you with – interesting travel destinations, traditions and cuisine, which make Germany truly unique.

In the video itself we managed to review such fun things:

- a list of the most popular travel attractions in the country;

- cities, which served as the capital of Germany over the course of history;

- unusual superstitions and cultural beliefs;

- rules to ordering a drink;

- tradition of diving school cones (Schultüte) to kids;

- who began the tradition of putting up Christmas trees?

- incredible inventions brought by the Germans.

[hardcorehardo]

In berlin nearly every old building has bullet holes in it

[MrsDeviliny]

I think the superstition with the two old ladies is a regional thing. I live in northern Hessen and have never heard of it.
My favorite thing about Germany is the many the different dialects and cultures in an areal small country.

[larchio]

Great list dude! I love the free education system in Germany.

[marcbuchheister]

wie gut das ich gerade nicht an meinen offenem fenster sterbe, da mir so viele ideen einfallen,

[Datacube]

What is your favorite thing about Germany?

[SirToby]

Where the hell did you oick up the open window thing?

[fmhummel]

The thing about open windows is also mostly wrong. The video most likely refers to the old wives tale of "Zugluft" - which could be translated as "air current" -, a constant flow of air which is supposed to give you a cold. Many Germans belief that sitting in something like that for some amount of time can give you a runny nose. Examples would be open car windows while driving, strong fans, air conditioning or the airflow through several open doors or windows. Since many Germans also are very strict about regularly letting fresh air into every room of the house, there are still some people who pay great care on just opening one window at a time to prevent "unhealthy" air currents.

[herrarne]

what, why d hould we have our windows closed? untrue. but the rest is true, i think.

[fmhummel]

Nobody will bring you a beer if you just raise your thumb or any fingers at all in a German pub. Unless you are a regular who never orders anything else or you already had some beers, so that the server might guess what you want. How should they tell what kind of beer you want or whether you don't want liqour or a glass of water instead. Contrary to popular belief German bartenders aren't psychic. The truth is: To order a beer in Germany, you order a beer. You can show with your fingers how many you want then, if you want to, but then it doesn't matter much which fingers you actually use.

[corverdoold]

printing was invented in the Netherlands, not Germany, by Laurens Janszoon Koster, in Haarlem city.

[soldaten-norbert]

The widow thing is not true. We German love Stosslüften

[PhilosophiPie]

Oh my God ! So much bullshit ^^ ( I am german so i do know better)

[rainbowshitter]

i thought Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb

[HouseOfNaturAl]

Actually, Poland is at the heart of Europe in the political way, but they say germany is because of the way people look at the map

[corverdoold]

Aken is the Dutch name for Aaachen...please pronounce the CH it's not hard can you say Lochness? do your home work before you do a youtube...