Just some small corrections / actualisations: 1.) Germany' population is 83,2 million by now. 3.) To try and break free isn't justiciable, but any damage to people or property done in the process will be punished. 6.) It's an irregularity (not a criminal offense) to run out of fuel on highways *because of negligence*. 7.) It exactly the other way around by now: more kids have grown up and more teachers are needed. 8.) The origin of the name "Hamburger" is actually a matter of debate. 10.) For some months, a lot of videos were blocked because of a copyright dispute going on. It was resolved years ago. 18.) Renewable energy is far above 50% by now when it comes to electricity and about 17% for the overall energy use. 19.) Germany isn't one of the Top 10 countries with the lowest birth rate at the moment. 21.) Nazi uniforms weren't designed by Hugo Boss. By then, the company wasn't even a mentionable fashion designer, it just produced clothing. 24.) Paul McCartney and Pete Best were deported for arson, not for specifically burning a condom. The German authorities may have overreacted a little, though. 😆
yes, most of these "unknown facts" have some real base to them, but then are portrayed in a wrong way or exagerrated to make them more "catchy" for viewers, or simply are outdated. Marc already made a pretty good short list of updates/corrections, and more details could be given that show how wrong the statements in the video are. eg in point 6 the "running out of fuel" itself is not directly punishable (just like the jailbreak is not, as long as you don't break anything) since there is no such law, BUT there is a law that prohibits stopping on the Autobahn without a valid reason. Such reason can be an accident or other unavoidable and unforseeable problems, but "running out of fuel" is no such reason because every car either has a fuelmeter or has to be checked extra carefully if it doesn't, and there are lots of fuel stations at the Autobahn or nearby which are open 24/7. Because of all of this, you can get a fine for illegally stopping (and it only might become criminal if your stop causes an accident with fatalities), which is at most indirectly a fine for "running out of fuel". point 13: Fanta was a "german" invention by some german who worked at the coca cola company in germany, and the recipe was completely different from today. the current recipe (or a recipe very similar to today's) was later (a while after the war) created by an italian. point 16: not only the salute, but every other symbol, book, song, etc which is used to publicly glorify that ideology is forbidden, just as denying the holocauset is illegal. the general reasoning for that law is that it is impractical and inhumane and also may become impossible over time, to get witnesses for atrocities and subject them to repeat over and over what they have witnessed. therefore, it is not necessary to have someone go to court and prove each and every time again who did what and how that impacted himself or might impact others also in the future. instead there is a law that forbids it, and courts can rule on the basis of that law to punish people for this kind of speech that is seen as some special hate speech.
Bomb findings are really a every day thing in germany. In my hometown dortmund we had 54 bombs findings last year. So about one every week. And the bombs become more dangerous over time because of corrosion. When a bomb is found the people living in that area have immediatly to be evacuated for the bomb disposal
Only a few years ago at christmas the area where I live was evacuated because of a really large WWII bomb, which had been found during nearby construction work. We had to leave the house for hours and wait for the all clear signal.
Same throughout the rest of the neighbouring cities in the Ruhr area. Almost every new bigger excavation site does hold the risk of discovering at least one dud if not more. I think in Essen some years ago they unearthed up to 5 from one construction site over a few weeks.
@@axelschweiss9925 If I had to guess, I'd think the US was the most capitalist - at he least it's a lot further along that line than Germany. And I do mean *a lot.* In fact, I've heard Americans paint Germany as socialist or even communist. Also, remember Germany invented the welfare state. (And it was the same conservative politician behind the German unification wars - Bismarck.)
4:50 there are a lot of findings. In my city alone, there were 5 findings this year. And everytime a huge area needs to get evacuated until it's safely defused.
and it is rare, that it is multiple at once. Usually these are duds ("Blindgänger") from bombing runs, so they are spread out over a large area by default.
5 in one year? Laughes in Ruhrgebiet, we had days of 3 at once. It is a near weekly occurence in cities like Dortmund. If there is a construction site, chances are high they find at least one bomb. Only reason I use Twitter is because local Police is very good in communication findings, evacuation and blockage for bombs. :)
Another fun fact since it is such a current topic 😛 The BARBIE doll is actually an updated version of the German Bild-Lilli, which looked like a more adult version of Barbie, and Mattel bought the rights in 60, and from then on no more Lilli, just Barbie in the world.
The story is actually really sad for the inventor... Mattel was at some point just such a big unscrupulous company, he had no chance to fight and win the lawsuit and was technically forced to sign and loose everything. The worst thing is that up to this day, Mattel don't give credit to the actual origin of Barbie... Ruth Handler basically just bought a doll on vacation in Europe and copied it back home.
No, the bombs all are randomly spread out and found on two ways: One, there are still photos taken from the allied after air attacks and after war, showing craters, of those who ave exploded, and those who have not. We named them "Blindgänger" ( like gone blind) , and those old photos from spy planes are still compared today with new and actual overlays of the same parts. Sometimes there are buildings today over defintly discovered Blindgänger -bombs. Two- they are randomly found in construction at work for streets or buildings. all that happens about 15 times a day all over the country. Then you hear it on the radio, that certain areas have to be evacuated. I myself had this two times during my University times in Hannover and Götiingen, where i also whitnessed a spontaneous explosion, an just recently one was discovered there on a most populated fair ground and exploded during the attempt to make it harmless, killing several people. Oftentimes i have stood right there decades ago. Those bombs are never found in huge clusters they all are single failed examples.
Eine dritte Möglichkeit Bomben zu finden ist die gezielte Kampfmittelsuche mit geophysikalischen Methoden. Die wird meistens im Vorfeld von z.B. Bohrungen oder Pfahlgründungen gemacht.
Last year during a public construction in Hamburg - Harburg there were a total of four bombs found in the same construction site in one week. That was exceptionally many even for massively bombed Hamburg. Note: nobody is blaming the Allies for it, neither in the past nor currently. It's just such a regular occurrence that nobody really bats an eye at it anymore.
In my country, you can see any music video, that does pay their "duty" to the creators and artists, wich is to be payed to an organisation, named GEMA. . They prevent creators for beeing robbed by spreading their work and creation for free, and only earning own, ( but robbed) money. Maybe, you think about that.@@anita_R
Fact 3 is true. It is basically only applicable if the door is open and you just walk out. It is still illegal to destroy or damage something during your breakout for example. An you will get charged with destruction of property. Just the act to flee is not punishable though.
@@m.h.6470 yes, no extra time for the escape itself, but also making it more difficult or impossible to get an early release on probation, maybe losing other perks of being "well behaved" too (like specific jobs, etc), and of course all illegal acts during the escape give new additional jailtime. and most of this also would apply if someone walks out through an open door.
@@Anson_AKB To add to all the correct facts above: ASSISTING a jailbreak IS a crime in Germany, one of the few things were the crime itself is not punished, but the assistance (as with suicide).
The blocked music videos are because of GEMA fees (the GEMA collects the money you have to pay for artistic license) which is a pretty tough agency in Germany. So, it's not about privacy laws but about property rights laws in this case.
My great grandpa died in WWI. My great grandma was left as a widow with 13 children. Emigrated from Katowice to Dortmund for work, lived to both world wars, hated Hitler, died one month prior to the moon landing. Great woman, inspiring.
Hugo Boss designing the Nazi-uniform is a myth. They didn’t design, but tailored the uniform. Like other clothes manufacturers in Germany at the time. The blocking of content was due to copyright issues. No censorship. The problem was solved some years ago.
I am an archeologist and depending on where I had a dig, I had to have the ground scanned with a metal detector so I wouldn't end up blowing up excarvating. I remember one of my excavations where I had to call the explosive ordnance disposal service several times, who were then allowed to take a dozen grenades. A forest ranger in this area told me that many of the trees in this forest are unusable because they are riddled with metal splinters from the wars and cannot be sawn. In France there are still places where nothing has grown since the First World War. The consequences of the world wars will probably be with us for another hundred years.
@@am1156 The First World War was a trench warfare between France and Germany without gaining ground. There were heavily fortified trenches on both sides, and for years both sides fired shells at each other, as well as poison gas and other substances. You can imagine that in some places there is so much sh*t in the ground that even nature needs time to get over it again.
The condom story is twisted around to sound like it was something odd and sensational. One of the Beatles lit one up in a hotel room and they were kicked out for breaching security rules, that's all.
2) ...true, but Venice is not really big and doesn't have that many bridges (around 400)... So Berlin does have more bridges, but Hamburg has even more. It's the city with most bridges in Europe (almost 2500) and it's sometimes called "Venice of the North".
Wow Joel, what an amazing video, I learnt so much from it, a very interesting watch. I have always fancied visiting Germany, as I find it rather intriguing, but after your visit and this video, it has become even more of a quest. Keep doing what you're doing Joel. Lyd x
In my neighbourhood 2 bombs from WW2 have been disarmed some time ago. They have only been found because of the renewal of that area. In that area was originally an american military base. It was decomissioned 15 years ago. So essentially, american soldiers lived and worked directly above their own bombs for nearly 40 years.
4:09 This needs some clarification. Public colleges and universities are administered by the states. Therefore each individual state decides on tuition fees. From 2005 to 2007 half of German states (those with a conservative state government) introduced tuition fees of about 500 Euros per semester. By 2014 the last German state abolished tuition fees again. However, in 2017 the state government of Baden-Württemberg introduced tuition fees for Non-EU citizens. So students from China, Switzerland, the US, or the UK at a university in Baden-Württemberg will have to pay 1,500 Euro per semester, while Italian, French or German citizens will not have to pay tuition fees (however, administrative fees and student service fees must be paid: roughly 150 Euros per semester. And in some states it is mandatory to buy a student ticket for public transport).
They do find bombs every day. Only last week, they found a huge American bomb from WWII in the city nearby, they had to evacuate thousands of people. This place of worship for all religions exists now in Berlin (the video must be older). The Nazi uniforms were NOT designed by Hugo Boss, but he manufactured them in his plants. From Wikipedia: "By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform was designed by SS members Karl Diebitsch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer). The Hugo Boss company was one of the companies that produced these black uniforms for the SS." Burning condoms has never been illegal. McCartney and Harrison did burn a condom, and their landlord reported them for attempted arson. The very first calculating machine was invented by the French man Blaise Pascal in 1642, when he was 16 years old. The German Philip Matthäus Hahn together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz developed their machine in 1672, 30 years later. The author of the video got a few things wrong. He forgot to mention the mp3 player, which was invented by a German (among other things).
why would they find a bunch of bombs together? They only find the ones that did not detonate when being dropped. So, indeed, they find and defuse around 15 each day all over Germany… Often, you hear of entire neighborhoods being evacuated because on some building site, a bomb has been found and they must all retire to some far away gym until it has been defused and building can go on…
theres no additional punishment for jailbreak. you will be brought back to serve the rest of your sentence, and you will receive punishment if you damaged something or harmed someone during the breakout, but not for the breakout itself
It is very sad that so many women could not get a man at the end of WWI. But at the end of WWII many women were also widows and alone with their children, because their husbands died in the war and never come back. The hearts of many mothers and women were broken by the grief. My grandfather is only 27 years old fallen in Stalingrad /Russia.🙏😔💜
It's not sad for the women. They were in a position of privilege by not going to war. It's sad for the men (on all sides of the conflict) who died fighting such a pointless war.
The women were perhaps privileged , because they didn`t have to fight in this murderos war. So they were all alone with their children and had to do all the heavy work alone without their husbands in a agriculture . One has to remember that in the past there were no maschines as there are today who could support the women. And it`s a shame that the young men and fathers had to die so needlessly for a dictator, although they would have much preferred to have stayed at home and worked at their jobs and stayed with their families . But it was up them no other choice otherwise they would have been shot.@@listey
don't forget many million soldiers became prisoners of war and in the case of Russian territory send to camps in Siberia or alike and often had to stay there up to 10 years. This certainly also caused a "shortage" of men, although they did not die in the war.
That youtube blocking thing was dueto a lack of an agreement between Google (UA-cam) and a German organization (GEMA) for managing label revenue. Gema asked for more money then Google was willing to pay. So Gema sued, and Google locked the videos. It is resolved by now.
My mother was 18 when World War 2 started, and she told me that every man from her generation was gone. She could only marry men, who were at least 5 years or younger than she was. And my parents lived in the Netherlands. It was not just Germany that lost an entire generation of men. This happened in many European countries, who were involved in the war.
It hurts my heart how many young men from Europe had die in this senseless war for this nazi- regime. I am a determined opponent of the nazi and against right- wing parties.🙏💙
@@blondkatze3547 Except, the video was talking about WW 1, where millions died in the trench war. They just poured more and more soldiers in a war that moved a line at most a mile forward, then a mile back - pointless in the extreme. WW 2 had its horrors, too - but by then at least most militaries had learned not to put all men from a village into the same unit, meaning when the unit was destroyed, every man from that village was dead. And it was *every* nation involved in trench warfare, not just Germany.
That is correct that the video was about WWI and different countries had fought together with Germany a d that the loss of dead men was very high. But if you make a comparison with WWII in almost every family in our community alone with the various villages young men have died or gone missing. My grandfather`s sister in -law had three son aged 20-31 and her son - in-law in the lost WWII. She died at the age of only 54 with a broken heart, because she couldn`t get over the loss of her children. There were so many tragic fates in the families of the killed or missing soldiers.@@KaiHenningsen
regarding a more in depth look into german prisons, i can really recommend the documentary 'behind bars - germanys most dangerous jail'. it might be a bit long for a reaction but its incredibly insightful while also entertaining
Here at Hamburg 10 to 20 WWII bombs are defused every year. Hamburg Firefighters estimate that there are still about 2,900 bombs buried beneath Hamburg's soil. As noone knows the exact location* of the bombs the last one will probably be defused in 170 years. That will be 248 years after the end of the war... *The bombs are searched with the help of old aerial photographs depicting the impact craters of the bombs.
Hugo Boss did not design Nazi Uniforms, they were one of the producers only. The Designers are the german art painter Karl Diebitsch and the graphic designer Walter Heck.
I thoroughly enjoy your channel, Joel, and your coverage of your recent trip to Germany and the UK was both amusing and informative. Please try to avoid the common tendency to hype, though. If these were truly "unknown" facts about Germany, neither you nor anyone else could comment on them. 😂
01:30 Berlin being larger than Paris is technically true but meaningless. The entire conurbation of Berlin comprises about 4.5 million inhabitants, Paris far more than 10 million. It's just that Berlin has incorporated the bulk of its conurbation into the municipality called "Berlin", whereas in Paris the municipality of that name takes only a small section of the entire conurbation, and all the suburbs remain separate administrative units. Any realistic statistics of city sizes counts conurbations, ignoring city boundaries, and in such lists Berlin ranks far below Paris.
Actually there are often Bombs and the Deutsche Bahn comes to late sometimes because they have to defuse a bomb. Thats pretty shocking for many People in US, but for us its normal
To your information. When in WW II came the time, that Coca-Cola could not be imported, the german seller would be ruined, without a good ideal. So he made himself "Fanta", in the first time a lemonade with Apples only. The name is the short of "fantastischer Geschmack", which means "fantastic taste". Hope I could help you, best regards - jo
ww2 bombs are discovered in my city almost every week. Then the area is evaluated until it is defuse. Sometimes the news says it but sometimes it doesn't because it's nothing new here.
08:00 No single country can claim the invention of television. It was invented step by step by numerous inventors working in several countries, among which are UK, USA, Germany, Italy, Russia, Hungary and Japan. However Germany can rightfully claim the car.
Hamburgers not only have the name of Hamburg, it was also invented in Hamburg. This was then taken to the USA by an immigrant. Back then, the meat was made between two slices of bread.
To explain the bomb finding thing a little further: It's not stashes of bombs that are being found. Its mostly aircraft bombs that didn't explode on impact. Since they have been buried for so long, they have degraded a lot. A friend of mine build a house on an area that was empty. He needed to get clearance to build his house there, from the federal equivalent of the bomb squad (Kampfmittelräumdienst - yes, of cause we have a federal department for that) And regarding all the videos blocked in Germany. Nearly all of them if because of copyright strikes of the European divisions of the music studios which successfully claimed that the fair use license wouldn't apply outside of the US. The negotiations between youtube and the studios about any form of compensation have been stuck for years and are leading nowhere.
Typically bombs are found during excavation for new constructions. They are often found one by one. Not in a kind of stash. Because, you know, they where dropped on towns in the thousands.
"Zone rouge" is the term used in France to refer to approximately 296,526 acres of battlefield where, due to significant physical damage to the environment during World War I and the presence of thousands of corpses and millions of unexploded munitions, certain activities have been temporarily or permanently prohibited by law.
A WWII bomb in Frankfurt caused the largest evacuation in post-WWII history with ca. 100.000 people (alongside a police station, hospitals, elderly residential homes and the Goethe-University). And prison break itself is legal, but only if no crimes are commited in the process like bribing or physically harming the personel.
5:25 „Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1940 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients.“ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta
In the district of Wilhelmsburg in the south of Hamburg you hear of bombs being found what feels like every other week And the prison escape thing is also true as long as there are no other offences commitetd e.g Property damage
Yes, I can confirm this about Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. British and American bombers dropped around 107,000 high-explosive bombs on Hamburg during 242 air raids during World War II. Up to 20 percent were duds. Before any housing construction today expensive bomb search has to take place.
Hugo Boss did not design the Third Reich uniforms, but made them. The design came from 2 different persons. Hugo Boss was merely one of many makers of military and party uniforms. The company became a fashion label long after WWII.
The Hugo Boss claim is nonsense. The Nazi-party uniforms have been designed by the party itself and the military uniforms have been designed by a special department of the military (Reichszeugmacherei - RZM). The Hugo Boss factory was just a production contractor among other and developed no own designs. Hugo Boss joined the Nazi party but was no active member, he said that he oly joined the party to get the production contracts. The allieds investigated him later and confirmed this, he had therefore only to pay a fine of 25.000 Reichsmarks. The company itself investigated their past and financed a book about it, they also donated to many organisations of victims of the Nazi eara.
If you want to get deeper into the topic "german prisonsystem", i highly recommend you: "Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool". It's a bit longer, but in my opinion one of the agurates videos about german prisonssystem compare to the us-prisonsystem.
About the remaining WW2 Bombs, we had one defused again in our town a couple of weeks ago. You can say its part of erveryday life, sad but true. If you read about it on social media or hear about it on the radio, you look up the list of streets that have to be evacuated for the time of the defusion if you live in the area. Also the firefighters will go around when its time to check if everone has gone. You can go to relatives for the time beeing or there are puplic places to go. Even hospitals or retiirement homes will be evacuated if need be. If you want to build anything in Germany you have to let the ground always be checked first before building
Point 3 on the list has a condition. If you break any laws while attempted jailbreak you get judged for these, but for the attempted jailbreak you cannot be judged.
They in fact find dud bombs every day in Germany when they do excavating for house building or road construction works. Then whole parts of cities get evacuated until the bomb is defused. Most of them weigh 250-500 kilograms. That is a lot of explosive stuff.
Technically Berlin might be bigger than Paris, but only a small part of the populated area perceived as Paris is actually officially the city of Paris. The overall populated area of Paris is much larger than Berlin and its surroundings.
I find it interesting how in american reaction videos the video that is reacted upon is a small part of the video and the one reacting is the biggest part of the screen, and then at the top also the room the person is in. In the reaction videos I know from germany, the person reacting is just a small screen in the video reacted upon.
The break in jailbreak is misleading. Of course, when the inmate destroys a lock or harms a person while trying to get free, it is a crime. The crime of hurting someone or the crime of destroying property. But if the door is open, and no one looks, the inmate can simply walk out. That is a problem of the staff, not the inmate. If he/she is caught, (s)he will be brought back to the jail. But there will be no additional punishment.
Hi Joel, I don’t know if you considered driving next time you’re on this side of the pond, but I just looked up minimum age for renting a car in Germany, it looks like SOME companies allow you to drive a hire car at 18 ( though some companies stipulate 21) I might be worth considering if you’re thinking of visiting mainland Europe next time. You shouldn’t have too much trouble driving there as it’s the same side of the Road as the US. Britain is a whole different kettle of fish. Minimum age is 21 & can be daunting to drive on the opposite side of the road, though I have seen other UA-camrs drone the States do it and they hey adapted fairly quickly. Just remember, MOST rental cars in Europe are stick shift .. Autos are usually a premium cost and are not generally compact cars but medium size cars.
That video is from 2015 - Much - especially statistics - is outdated, not true anymore or were never true and other things are incomplete. For example videos were not blocked by Germany, but by youtube to avoid to get sued for copyright infringements. And it is only against the law to run out of fuel on highways if it's avoidable. If your fuel gauge is stuck or defect it's no problem. But if you are to lazy to fill her up - you have a problem. 4:51 - there is a group of people that does nothing else than checking old aerial photos from war times for not exploded bombs and ammo and sending a bombsquad with detectors to find those. Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from their homes. In Berlin alone, 1.8 million pieces of ordnance have been defused between 1947 and 2018. Buried bombs, as well as mortars, land mines and grenades, are often found during construction work or other excavations, or by farmers tilling the land. I live in an area with water dams, a preferred target in wartime. You can still find ammo and bombs around in the woods and a few years ago they had to repair a dam and pumped the water down until the lake was dry. They found tons of bombs, ammo etc. in the lake bed they had to remove before they could start to repair the dam. Nazi Uniforms were designed by party members of the NSDAP (Hitlers party) special forces SS named Karl Diebitsch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer) with no affilation to Hugo Boss. Hugo Boss was only one of many companies that produced the clothes.
On the bomb finds in Germany. The bombs are mostly found during construction work. For example when building a new house. In most cases they are found individually. In Germany, it is mandatory for a specialized company to search the property for bombs before construction begins. If one is found, all nearby buildings will be evacuated. Then an attempt is made to defuse the bomb so that it can be transported to a detonation site. If this does not succeed, then the bomb must be detonated on site in a controlled manner. This sometimes goes wrong, see video ua-cam.com/video/ldob72UrBgA/v-deo.html
The blocked videos were due to GEMA (German collecting society for music) who could not get an agreement with youtube regarding adequat fees for artists' music being used on the platform. Resulting in total blocking of many artists which even voluntarily uploaded their music on YT themselves. But this got resolved some years ago, so is not a thing anymore...
The jailbreak one, I am from The Netherlands and it is the exact same thing here. The Netherlands and Germany has very similar things and our people originate from same and similar tribes, and I am half Dutch half German🤝🏻
wait till you hear the reason why we have to fasten our seatbelts and its illegal to not do so...In germany we have this law that you have to help others in need. Not financially, more like if someone looks like hes dying or getting robbet whatever. if your seatbelt is not fastened and you die in a carcrash you wont be able to help the other person involved in the crash. Thats why we have to fasten our seatbelts.
They keep finding WWII bombs all the time, and piecemeal, sadly. Most turn up when a new constructing site is opened, either (if they already know that the area is problematic) by probing the ground, or because an excavator actually dug one of those up. They collect the duds, if possible, and detonate them in a remote place, beneath a thick layer of soil. If that is impossible, they have to evacuate all people in a radius of at least 500 yards, close all shops within the area, and try to defuse it in situ, sometimes by use of a remotely controlled robot. It doesn't always work out well. Munich experienced this when a controlled detonation failed in 2012, and set roofs ablaze.
My old boss lives in Mainz, one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany. And so a non detonated bomb was found while constructing the neighbour house. My boss and his wife wanted to leave their house due to evacuation when suddenly the bell rang. It was the man who had to dispose the bomb looking for the best access for his machinery. He was pretty cool and asked my boss and his wife 'Wanna Take a look on the bomb with me? It's completely safe!' So they all went to the neighbouring site and looked at the bomb sticking in the ground. The bomb disposal expert was silent for a long time and said: 'Wow! I've never seen that before! At this moment the wife of my boss turned white as a piece of chalk, because she thought that her house would bei ruined in a massive explosion. The bomb disposal expert saw her face and started laughing: "Don't worry! I know this type of bomb and I do know how it can be neutralized! But I never expected to see this here, because it's a bomb of the Royal Navy and not of the Royal Air Force. We are 400 miles away from the see, no idea how this came to Mainz.' Obviously this man was well prepared...
There is already a Building with a Mosque, Church and Synagog in one Builiding in Bern, Switzerland, It has even more, also a tempel for hindus, dergah and buddism, and rooms for alevites, bahaitum, sikh, ..... No issues at all there. It's called "Haus der Religionen" or "House of Religion"
Nope, unexploded bombs aren't usually found bunched together. They do have this designed intentional explosion, you know? A bomb failing to explode is like a car not driving. 😂 Having that occur with multiple bombs from the same load dropped from the same bomber was highly unlikely. Even back then quality controls, even for bombs, or maybe especially for bombs, was fairly high. You didn't want them to go off unintentionally, but with as much regularity when used in their intended way. So multiple bombs NOT going off at the same time was rare. When multiple undetonated bombs are found in close proximity, THOSE are the cases that make national headlines. Simply a bomb defused/safely detonated rarely goes above the local small newspaper or news agency. There's just far too many found throughout Germany on a daily basis. One such case of four unexploded bombs found on the same construction site happened last year here in Hamburg Harburg. Not all at once but within one week, and in very close proximity to each other. THAT was rate and noteworthy. The Kampfmittelräumdienst, officially the combat munitions removal service, or the bomb squads, here are probably anong the most experienced ones on the planet. Cause they get called out so often. They have to be, cause they want to go home at the end of the day.😅 Edit: 15. A combined multi-confessional (Christian, Muslim, Jewish) building was already finished in the Hamburg Hafencity long before the plans in Berlin had been approved. 😂
About the jail break: It doesn't mean you are let off the hook and just get away. You will still be put back into prison to complete your original sentence and you will also be ounished and held accountable for any damage or harm or othe law breaking you do, while traying to escape. It is just that the attempt and act of escaping itsself won't add an additional charge. So technically, if a prison were to mitakenly leave its doors open and a prisoner jist walked out, without stealing or manioulating or breaking stuff, it would be free of charge. But he would still be pit back into prison. And if he refused or showed resistsmce, that could be punished. So, even in that scenarion, where a prisoner was able to just walk out, in order to stay completely free of additional charges, he would habt just walk back in as soon as they tell him to. Its like "Nice try, nothing happened!"^^
The tradition to decorate your Christmas tree isn’t from Germany, ist first done in Elsass (france) in the 16th century, but Elsass is on the border to Germany.
It triggers me so much that when they talk about Berlin having the world largest zoo that they show the entrance of the one that is not it. Entrance shown is from the zoo in the western part of Berlin. But the world largest zoo is in the eastern part of Berlin most tourist probably don’t even know about. 😄
5:00 no usually you dont find them together. Yes sometimes you find multiple bombs after another on one large construction site but like 99% of the time they arent found directly next to each other. Also if you think about it, this wouldnt make sense at all. Im not sure if you actually understood what kind of bombs we find here.😅 Those are actually large bombs that you drop out of planes in war. You cant compare it to some old grenades someone threw into a lake or river in the states😂
In Berlin usually once a week a whole street block of people have to leave their apartments for hours because a bomb is found in the ground during construction work. So, yup, bomb findings are common in about every bigger city.
The blocking of UA-cam content was actually initiated by Google when they assumed that GEMA was the owner of the copyright of the music played in the video. Google wasn't willing to pay a fair share of the revenue they made with placing advertisements in the video. Therefore Google showed instead of the Video a Blocked by GEMA notificatio . Later on Google had to remove it and the videos were just blocked. Today Google and GEMA have reached an agreement and the videos aren't blocked anymore.
They should make it easier to have children for the native population instead they fund migration of people who live off welfare and have many children while Germans have to work two jobs to afford just one child. For University graduates it’s increasingly difficult to fund a family before 35y of age in Europe in general. Yet many migrants from countries that are not used to our system don’t care whether they can afford a child or not and have plenty. The population in Europe is only growing due to migration, the native population is in fact decreasing because they have less than 2.1 children pee couple.
Just some small corrections / actualisations:
1.) Germany' population is 83,2 million by now.
3.) To try and break free isn't justiciable, but any damage to people or property done in the process will be punished.
6.) It's an irregularity (not a criminal offense) to run out of fuel on highways *because of negligence*.
7.) It exactly the other way around by now: more kids have grown up and more teachers are needed.
8.) The origin of the name "Hamburger" is actually a matter of debate.
10.) For some months, a lot of videos were blocked because of a copyright dispute going on. It was resolved years ago.
18.) Renewable energy is far above 50% by now when it comes to electricity and about 17% for the overall energy use.
19.) Germany isn't one of the Top 10 countries with the lowest birth rate at the moment.
21.) Nazi uniforms weren't designed by Hugo Boss. By then, the company wasn't even a mentionable fashion designer, it just produced clothing.
24.) Paul McCartney and Pete Best were deported for arson, not for specifically burning a condom. The German authorities may have overreacted a little, though. 😆
yes, most of these "unknown facts" have some real base to them, but then are portrayed in a wrong way or exagerrated to make them more "catchy" for viewers, or simply are outdated.
Marc already made a pretty good short list of updates/corrections, and more details could be given that show how wrong the statements in the video are.
eg in point 6 the "running out of fuel" itself is not directly punishable (just like the jailbreak is not, as long as you don't break anything) since there is no such law, BUT there is a law that prohibits stopping on the Autobahn without a valid reason. Such reason can be an accident or other unavoidable and unforseeable problems, but "running out of fuel" is no such reason because every car either has a fuelmeter or has to be checked extra carefully if it doesn't, and there are lots of fuel stations at the Autobahn or nearby which are open 24/7. Because of all of this, you can get a fine for illegally stopping (and it only might become criminal if your stop causes an accident with fatalities), which is at most indirectly a fine for "running out of fuel".
point 13: Fanta was a "german" invention by some german who worked at the coca cola company in germany, and the recipe was completely different from today. the current recipe (or a recipe very similar to today's) was later (a while after the war) created by an italian.
point 16: not only the salute, but every other symbol, book, song, etc which is used to publicly glorify that ideology is forbidden, just as denying the holocauset is illegal. the general reasoning for that law is that it is impractical and inhumane and also may become impossible over time, to get witnesses for atrocities and subject them to repeat over and over what they have witnessed. therefore, it is not necessary to have someone go to court and prove each and every time again who did what and how that impacted himself or might impact others also in the future. instead there is a law that forbids it, and courts can rule on the basis of that law to punish people for this kind of speech that is seen as some special hate speech.
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Correct and I would also add we are not the most capitalistic country, thats also way too much.
Also wrong in the meantime about 84.4 million as of Dec. 31, 2022.
@@norbertkuhn4072 Or 84.433 million estimated as of March 31, 2023.
My point was the general increase, though.
Bomb findings are really a every day thing in germany. In my hometown dortmund we had 54 bombs findings last year. So about one every week. And the bombs become more dangerous over time because of corrosion. When a bomb is found the people living in that area have immediatly to be evacuated for the bomb disposal
Can confirm that. In Bremen on probably every new construction site they find these things.
Even in my relatively small town, we've had a few bombs found. It is an everyday thing.
Only a few years ago at christmas the area where I live was evacuated because of a really large WWII bomb, which had been found during nearby construction work. We had to leave the house for hours and wait for the all clear signal.
We still have the bomb thing in the UK, just not publicised now but we still find bombs. Unfortunately it is a price of war.
Same throughout the rest of the neighbouring cities in the Ruhr area. Almost every new bigger excavation site does hold the risk of discovering at least one dud if not more. I think in Essen some years ago they unearthed up to 5 from one construction site over a few weeks.
"Considered the most capitalist ..." Wtf no
Just began watching the video, and had to pause and go to the comments, bc thats just wrong
Yes, that is definetely a WTF-moment.
Yeah, cant be true, America is more capitalist 100%
Yeah where did they get that from?
@@axelschweiss9925 If I had to guess, I'd think the US was the most capitalist - at he least it's a lot further along that line than Germany. And I do mean *a lot.* In fact, I've heard Americans paint Germany as socialist or even communist.
Also, remember Germany invented the welfare state. (And it was the same conservative politician behind the German unification wars - Bismarck.)
4:50 there are a lot of findings. In my city alone, there were 5 findings this year. And everytime a huge area needs to get evacuated until it's safely defused.
Its a usual thing in Cities in Germany, that they found bombs from WW2
In Berlin alone around 10 in every year.
and it is rare, that it is multiple at once. Usually these are duds ("Blindgänger") from bombing runs, so they are spread out over a large area by default.
5 in one year? Laughes in Ruhrgebiet, we had days of 3 at once. It is a near weekly occurence in cities like Dortmund.
If there is a construction site, chances are high they find at least one bomb. Only reason I use Twitter is because local Police is very good in communication findings, evacuation and blockage for bombs. :)
Another fun fact since it is such a current topic 😛 The BARBIE doll is actually an updated version of the German Bild-Lilli, which looked like a more adult version of Barbie, and Mattel bought the rights in 60, and from then on no more Lilli, just Barbie in the world.
The story is actually really sad for the inventor... Mattel was at some point just such a big unscrupulous company, he had no chance to fight and win the lawsuit and was technically forced to sign and loose everything. The worst thing is that up to this day, Mattel don't give credit to the actual origin of Barbie... Ruth Handler basically just bought a doll on vacation in Europe and copied it back home.
No, the bombs all are randomly spread out and found on two ways: One, there are still photos taken from the allied after air attacks and after war, showing craters, of those who ave exploded, and those who have not. We named them "Blindgänger" ( like gone blind) , and those old photos from spy planes are still compared today with new and actual overlays of the same parts. Sometimes there are buildings today over defintly discovered Blindgänger -bombs. Two- they are randomly found in construction at work for streets or buildings. all that happens about 15 times a day all over the country. Then you hear it on the radio, that certain areas have to be evacuated. I myself had this two times during my University times in Hannover and Götiingen, where i also whitnessed a spontaneous explosion, an just recently one was discovered there on a most populated fair ground and exploded during the attempt to make it harmless, killing several people. Oftentimes i have stood right there decades ago. Those bombs are never found in huge clusters they all are single failed examples.
Eine dritte Möglichkeit Bomben zu finden ist die gezielte Kampfmittelsuche mit geophysikalischen Methoden. Die wird meistens im Vorfeld von z.B. Bohrungen oder Pfahlgründungen gemacht.
Hier im Ruhrgebiet ist das finden von einzelnen bomben 'fast' alltäglich und das schon seit meiner kindheit ! Nichts ungewöhnliches... !
Last year during a public construction in Hamburg - Harburg there were a total of four bombs found in the same construction site in one week. That was exceptionally many even for massively bombed Hamburg. Note: nobody is blaming the Allies for it, neither in the past nor currently. It's just such a regular occurrence that nobody really bats an eye at it anymore.
The best town to me is called Essen..there's bombs found weekly. And when I try and watch a music video. It's 'not available in your country '
In my country, you can see any music video, that does pay their "duty" to the creators and artists, wich is to be payed to an organisation, named GEMA. . They prevent creators for beeing robbed by spreading their work and creation for free, and only earning own, ( but robbed) money. Maybe, you think about that.@@anita_R
Fact 3 is true. It is basically only applicable if the door is open and you just walk out. It is still illegal to destroy or damage something during your breakout for example. An you will get charged with destruction of property. Just the act to flee is not punishable though.
I think one of the building requirements for jails is that inmates must have a way to get out. Not going mad is a human right.
And you still have to go back to prison for the remainder of your "time" once they caught you. You just don't get MORE time for escaping.
@@m.h.6470 yes, no extra time for the escape itself, but also making it more difficult or impossible to get an early release on probation, maybe losing other perks of being "well behaved" too (like specific jobs, etc), and of course all illegal acts during the escape give new additional jailtime. and most of this also would apply if someone walks out through an open door.
@@Anson_AKB To add to all the correct facts above: ASSISTING a jailbreak IS a crime in Germany, one of the few things were the crime itself is not punished, but the assistance (as with suicide).
The blocked music videos are because of GEMA fees (the GEMA collects the money you have to pay for artistic license) which is a pretty tough agency in Germany. So, it's not about privacy laws but about property rights laws in this case.
But that has been solved nearly ten years ago. So the video is quite outdated by now
5:45 There's a project like this in Switzerland since 2014 👍🏻
My great grandpa died in WWI. My great grandma was left as a widow with 13 children. Emigrated from Katowice to Dortmund for work, lived to both world wars, hated Hitler, died one month prior to the moon landing. Great woman, inspiring.
Hugo Boss designing the Nazi-uniform is a myth. They didn’t design, but tailored the uniform. Like other clothes manufacturers in Germany at the time.
The blocking of content was due to copyright issues. No censorship. The problem was solved some years ago.
Never trust a suit, the worst shit in history is done by the best dressed people.😂😂
The Video is old. YT and GEMA (German Version of the BMI) has solved their dispute (how many cent per view) years ago.
You dont get punished just for the breakout. But if you hurt someone or damage something you get a punishment
And if they catch you later you get back in jail of course.
@@Papa_Asada and you most likely get punished according to the rules of the prison itself - like solitary confinement.
I am an archeologist and depending on where I had a dig, I had to have the ground scanned with a metal detector so I wouldn't end up blowing up excarvating. I remember one of my excavations where I had to call the explosive ordnance disposal service several times, who were then allowed to take a dozen grenades. A forest ranger in this area told me that many of the trees in this forest are unusable because they are riddled with metal splinters from the wars and cannot be sawn.
In France there are still places where nothing has grown since the First World War.
The consequences of the world wars will probably be with us for another hundred years.
In France; why does nothing grow there? Is the land polluted by the shelling?
@@am1156 The First World War was a trench warfare between France and Germany without gaining ground. There were heavily fortified trenches on both sides, and for years both sides fired shells at each other, as well as poison gas and other substances. You can imagine that in some places there is so much sh*t in the ground that even nature needs time to get over it again.
The condom story is twisted around to sound like it was something odd and sensational. One of the Beatles lit one up in a hotel room and they were kicked out for breaching security rules, that's all.
2) ...true, but Venice is not really big and doesn't have that many bridges (around 400)... So Berlin does have more bridges, but Hamburg has even more. It's the city with most bridges in Europe (almost 2500) and it's sometimes called "Venice of the North".
Was that true of pre war konigsberg?
@@pegamini7582 been there. A lot of bridges and as I recall, very hot. It was clear that most lived on the mainline, thanks to Musso.
Wow Joel, what an amazing video, I learnt so much from it, a very interesting watch. I have always fancied visiting Germany, as I find it rather intriguing, but after your visit and this video, it has become even more of a quest. Keep doing what you're doing Joel. Lyd x
In my neighbourhood 2 bombs from WW2 have been disarmed some time ago. They have only been found because of the renewal of that area. In that area was originally an american military base. It was decomissioned 15 years ago. So essentially, american soldiers lived and worked directly above their own bombs for nearly 40 years.
4:09 This needs some clarification. Public colleges and universities are administered by the states. Therefore each individual state decides on tuition fees. From 2005 to 2007 half of German states (those with a conservative state government) introduced tuition fees of about 500 Euros per semester. By 2014 the last German state abolished tuition fees again. However, in 2017 the state government of Baden-Württemberg introduced tuition fees for Non-EU citizens. So students from China, Switzerland, the US, or the UK at a university in Baden-Württemberg will have to pay 1,500 Euro per semester, while Italian, French or German citizens will not have to pay tuition fees (however, administrative fees and student service fees must be paid: roughly 150 Euros per semester. And in some states it is mandatory to buy a student ticket for public transport).
I didn't know about tuition fees in BW. But that's similar to the Netherlands: for EU Students around 2000 EU per year, rd 10.000 for non-EU students
They do find bombs every day. Only last week, they found a huge American bomb from WWII in the city nearby, they had to evacuate thousands of people.
This place of worship for all religions exists now in Berlin (the video must be older).
The Nazi uniforms were NOT designed by Hugo Boss, but he manufactured them in his plants. From Wikipedia: "By the third quarter of 1932, the all-black SS uniform was designed by SS members Karl Diebitsch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer). The Hugo Boss company was one of the companies that produced these black uniforms for the SS."
Burning condoms has never been illegal. McCartney and Harrison did burn a condom, and their landlord reported them for attempted arson.
The very first calculating machine was invented by the French man Blaise Pascal in 1642, when he was 16 years old. The German Philip Matthäus Hahn together with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz developed their machine in 1672, 30 years later. The author of the video got a few things wrong. He forgot to mention the mp3 player, which was invented by a German (among other things).
It's not about the first calculating machine but about the first automatical, programmable calculator called "Zuse Z3"
why would they find a bunch of bombs together? They only find the ones that did not detonate when being dropped. So, indeed, they find and defuse around 15 each day all over Germany… Often, you hear of entire neighborhoods being evacuated because on some building site, a bomb has been found and they must all retire to some far away gym until it has been defused and building can go on…
theres no additional punishment for jailbreak. you will be brought back to serve the rest of your sentence, and you will receive punishment if you damaged something or harmed someone during the breakout, but not for the breakout itself
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German textile entrepreneur. With his tailoring, he laid the foundation for the clothing manufacturer Hugo Boss AG.
It is very sad that so many women could not get a man at the end of WWI. But at the end of WWII many women were also widows and alone with their children, because their husbands died in the war and never come back. The hearts of many mothers and women were broken by the grief. My grandfather is only 27 years old fallen in Stalingrad /Russia.🙏😔💜
It's not sad for the women. They were in a position of privilege by not going to war.
It's sad for the men (on all sides of the conflict) who died fighting such a pointless war.
The women were perhaps privileged , because they didn`t have to fight in this murderos war. So they were all alone with their children and had to do all the heavy work alone without their husbands in a agriculture . One has to remember that in the past there were no maschines as there are today who could support the women. And it`s a shame that the young men and fathers had to die so needlessly for a dictator, although they would have much preferred to have stayed at home and worked at their jobs and stayed with their families . But it was up them no other choice otherwise they would have been shot.@@listey
@@listey It's a tragedy for men and women.. why to pick sides "who got it better" on such matter is beyond me
don't forget many million soldiers became prisoners of war and in the case of Russian territory send to camps in Siberia or alike and often had to stay there up to 10 years. This certainly also caused a "shortage" of men, although they did not die in the war.
Not only men, but also German women were sent to soviet prison camps to work in Siberia etc.@@henningbartels6245
That youtube blocking thing was dueto a lack of an agreement between Google (UA-cam) and a German organization (GEMA) for managing label revenue.
Gema asked for more money then Google was willing to pay. So Gema sued, and Google locked the videos. It is resolved by now.
My mother was 18 when World War 2 started, and she told me that every man from her generation was gone. She could only marry men, who were at least 5 years or younger than she was. And my parents lived in the Netherlands. It was not just Germany that lost an entire generation of men. This happened in many European countries, who were involved in the war.
It hurts my heart how many young men from Europe had die in this senseless war for this nazi- regime. I am a determined opponent of the nazi and against right- wing parties.🙏💙
@@blondkatze3547 Except, the video was talking about WW 1, where millions died in the trench war. They just poured more and more soldiers in a war that moved a line at most a mile forward, then a mile back - pointless in the extreme. WW 2 had its horrors, too - but by then at least most militaries had learned not to put all men from a village into the same unit, meaning when the unit was destroyed, every man from that village was dead. And it was *every* nation involved in trench warfare, not just Germany.
That is correct that the video was about WWI and different countries had fought together with Germany a d that the loss of dead men was very high. But if you make a comparison with WWII in almost every family in our community alone with the various villages young men have died or gone missing. My grandfather`s sister in -law had three son aged 20-31 and her son - in-law in the lost WWII. She died at the age of only 54 with a broken heart, because she couldn`t get over the loss of her children. There were so many tragic fates in the families of the killed or missing soldiers.@@KaiHenningsen
"Hamburger" has nothin to do with the town Hamburg. It comes from the word "Ham". There ist also no town calling "Cheese" for Cheeseburger :-)
The bombs (unexploded ordnance) are isolated finds and do not occur in bundles. In the film, a group of grenades is shown by mistake.
I think they grouped them for transport. Or it's a place to detonate them controlled.
regarding a more in depth look into german prisons, i can really recommend the documentary 'behind bars - germanys most dangerous jail'. it might be a bit long for a reaction but its incredibly insightful while also entertaining
Here at Hamburg 10 to 20 WWII bombs are defused every year. Hamburg Firefighters estimate that there are still about 2,900 bombs buried beneath Hamburg's soil. As noone knows the exact location* of the bombs the last one will probably be defused in 170 years. That will be 248 years after the end of the war... *The bombs are searched with the help of old aerial photographs depicting the impact craters of the bombs.
I took a look at the project in berlin, I did not know about it. Very interesting, I expect the building just to look great!
Hugo Boss did not design Nazi Uniforms, they were one of the producers only. The Designers are the german art painter Karl Diebitsch and the graphic designer Walter Heck.
There's usually only one bomb found at a time, not several.
I thoroughly enjoy your channel, Joel, and your coverage of your recent trip to Germany and the UK was both amusing and informative. Please try to avoid the common tendency to hype, though. If these were truly "unknown" facts about Germany, neither you nor anyone else could comment on them. 😂
01:30 Berlin being larger than Paris is technically true but meaningless. The entire conurbation of Berlin comprises about 4.5 million inhabitants, Paris far more than 10 million. It's just that Berlin has incorporated the bulk of its conurbation into the municipality called "Berlin", whereas in Paris the municipality of that name takes only a small section of the entire conurbation, and all the suburbs remain separate administrative units. Any realistic statistics of city sizes counts conurbations, ignoring city boundaries, and in such lists Berlin ranks far below Paris.
Actually there are often Bombs and the Deutsche Bahn comes to late sometimes because they have to defuse a bomb. Thats pretty shocking for many People in US, but for us its normal
It’s crazy how he pronounced “Tsar” 5:37
To your information. When in WW II came the time, that Coca-Cola could not be imported, the german seller would be ruined, without a good ideal.
So he made himself "Fanta", in the first time a lemonade with Apples only. The name is the short of "fantastischer Geschmack", which means "fantastic taste".
Hope I could help you, best regards - jo
I am from the Nederlands we have the same for jailbreak no extra punishment !
ww2 bombs are discovered in my city almost every week.
Then the area is evaluated until it is defuse. Sometimes the news says it but sometimes it doesn't because it's nothing new here.
08:00 No single country can claim the invention of television. It was invented step by step by numerous inventors working in several countries, among which are UK, USA, Germany, Italy, Russia, Hungary and Japan. However Germany can rightfully claim the car.
Hamburgers not only have the name of Hamburg, it was also invented in Hamburg. This was then taken to the USA by an immigrant. Back then, the meat was made between two slices of bread.
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To explain the bomb finding thing a little further: It's not stashes of bombs that are being found. Its mostly aircraft bombs that didn't explode on impact. Since they have been buried for so long, they have degraded a lot. A friend of mine build a house on an area that was empty. He needed to get clearance to build his house there, from the federal equivalent of the bomb squad (Kampfmittelräumdienst - yes, of cause we have a federal department for that)
And regarding all the videos blocked in Germany. Nearly all of them if because of copyright strikes of the European divisions of the music studios which successfully claimed that the fair use license wouldn't apply outside of the US. The negotiations between youtube and the studios about any form of compensation have been stuck for years and are leading nowhere.
Typically bombs are found during excavation for new constructions. They are often found one by one. Not in a kind of stash. Because, you know, they where dropped on towns in the thousands.
"Zone rouge" is the term used in France to refer to approximately 296,526 acres of battlefield where, due to significant physical damage to the environment during World War I and the presence of thousands of corpses and millions of unexploded munitions, certain activities have been temporarily or permanently prohibited by law.
4:50 Nope, especially around our industry hubs nearly every building project finds an undetonated bomb.
5:23 Business Insider has a great video on Fanta’s origin story. Also, your face 😂
4; 30 we search for bombs via Air photos from ww2 so we find them single not 2 or 6 togeter
Another "fun" fact: it will cost u two arms and three legs to get ur drivers license
As for German prisons, there is a nice Ted talk by Jeff Rosen.
A WWII bomb in Frankfurt caused the largest evacuation in post-WWII history with ca. 100.000 people (alongside a police station, hospitals, elderly residential homes and the Goethe-University). And prison break itself is legal, but only if no crimes are commited in the process like bribing or physically harming the personel.
5:25 „Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1940 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients.“
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta
In fact, most of the genious people and inventors in the mid19th migrate from Germany to the USA.
Even I as a German citizen didn't know some of this, but I think this could be extended by many interesting points...
In the district of Wilhelmsburg in the south of Hamburg you hear of bombs being found what feels like every other week
And the prison escape thing is also true as long as there are no other offences commitetd e.g Property damage
Yes, I can confirm this about Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg. British and American bombers dropped around 107,000 high-explosive bombs on Hamburg during 242 air raids during World War II. Up to 20 percent were duds. Before any housing construction today expensive bomb search has to take place.
oh man you underestimate the bomb thing, it is usually singular but huge bombs. The ones put there next to each other were readied for detonation,
No the Bombs are not found in groups 😂 I Had to leave my House 5 Times the Last 3 years because they found a bomb. One was underneath a Gas Station
Hugo Boss did not design the Third Reich uniforms, but made them. The design came from 2 different persons. Hugo Boss was merely one of many makers of military and party uniforms. The company became a fashion label long after WWII.
The Hugo Boss claim is nonsense. The Nazi-party uniforms have been designed by the party itself and the military uniforms have been designed by a special department of the military (Reichszeugmacherei - RZM). The Hugo Boss factory was just a production contractor among other and developed no own designs.
Hugo Boss joined the Nazi party but was no active member, he said that he oly joined the party to get the production contracts. The allieds investigated him later and confirmed this, he had therefore only to pay a fine of 25.000 Reichsmarks. The company itself investigated their past and financed a book about it, they also donated to many organisations of victims of the Nazi eara.
Them leaving out the invention of the car was crazy ngl
If you want to get deeper into the topic "german prisonsystem", i highly recommend you: "Germany: Low Crime, Clean Prisons, Lessons for America | Jeff Rosen | TEDxMountainViewHighSchool". It's a bit longer, but in my opinion one of the agurates videos about german prisonssystem compare to the us-prisonsystem.
About the remaining WW2 Bombs, we had one defused again in our town a couple of weeks ago. You can say its part of erveryday life, sad but true. If you read about it on social media or hear about it on the radio, you look up the list of streets that have to be evacuated for the time of the defusion if you live in the area. Also the firefighters will go around when its time to check if everone has gone. You can go to relatives for the time beeing or there are puplic places to go. Even hospitals or retiirement homes will be evacuated if need be. If you want to build anything in Germany you have to let the ground always be checked first before building
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Point 3 on the list has a condition. If you break any laws while attempted jailbreak you get judged for these, but for the attempted jailbreak you cannot be judged.
They in fact find dud bombs every day in Germany when they do excavating for house building or road construction works. Then whole parts of cities get evacuated until the bomb is defused. Most of them weigh 250-500 kilograms. That is a lot of explosive stuff.
Technically Berlin might be bigger than Paris, but only a small part of the populated area perceived as Paris is actually officially the city of Paris. The overall populated area of Paris is much larger than Berlin and its surroundings.
Maybe it's similar to London. Officially less than 10k people live in the City of London.
I find it interesting how in american reaction videos the video that is reacted upon is a small part of the video and the one reacting is the biggest part of the screen, and then at the top also the room the person is in. In the reaction videos I know from germany, the person reacting is just a small screen in the video reacted upon.
Quick random question: What do you think insects are?
a) plants b) fungi
c) animals d) stones
The break in jailbreak is misleading. Of course, when the inmate destroys a lock or harms a person while trying to get free, it is a crime.
The crime of hurting someone or the crime of destroying property.
But if the door is open, and no one looks, the inmate can simply walk out. That is a problem of the staff, not the inmate.
If he/she is caught, (s)he will be brought back to the jail. But there will be no additional punishment.
in germany many prisoners get to work outside of prison. They can simply not come back.
You should come to Finland and experience a real sauna
and some Koskenkorva...
Hi Joel, I don’t know if you considered driving next time you’re on this side of the pond, but I just looked up minimum age for renting a car in Germany, it looks like SOME companies allow you to drive a hire car at 18 ( though some companies stipulate 21)
I might be worth considering if you’re thinking of visiting mainland Europe next time.
You shouldn’t have too much trouble driving there as it’s the same side of the Road as the US.
Britain is a whole different kettle of fish.
Minimum age is 21 & can be daunting to drive on the opposite side of the road, though I have seen other UA-camrs drone the States do it and they hey adapted fairly quickly. Just remember, MOST rental cars in Europe are stick shift .. Autos are usually a premium cost and are not generally compact cars but medium size cars.
That video is from 2015 - Much - especially statistics - is outdated, not true anymore or were never true and other things are incomplete. For example videos were not blocked by Germany, but by youtube to avoid to get sued for copyright infringements. And it is only against the law to run out of fuel on highways if it's avoidable. If your fuel gauge is stuck or defect it's no problem. But if you are to lazy to fill her up - you have a problem.
4:51 - there is a group of people that does nothing else than checking old aerial photos from war times for not exploded bombs and ammo and sending a bombsquad with detectors to find those. Every year, an estimated 2,000 tons of World War II munitions are found in Germany, at times requiring the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from their homes. In Berlin alone, 1.8 million pieces of ordnance have been defused between 1947 and 2018. Buried bombs, as well as mortars, land mines and grenades, are often found during construction work or other excavations, or by farmers tilling the land. I live in an area with water dams, a preferred target in wartime. You can still find ammo and bombs around in the woods and a few years ago they had to repair a dam and pumped the water down until the lake was dry. They found tons of bombs, ammo etc. in the lake bed they had to remove before they could start to repair the dam.
Nazi Uniforms were designed by party members of the NSDAP (Hitlers party) special forces SS named Karl Diebitsch (artist) and Walter Heck (graphic designer) with no affilation to Hugo Boss. Hugo Boss was only one of many companies that produced the clothes.
funfact, the programmable binary computer, that we all use nowadays, was invented in germany, by Konrad Zuse in the 1930s
On the bomb finds in Germany. The bombs are mostly found during construction work. For example when building a new house. In most cases they are found individually.
In Germany, it is mandatory for a specialized company to search the property for bombs before construction begins.
If one is found, all nearby buildings will be evacuated. Then an attempt is made to defuse the bomb so that it can be transported to a detonation site.
If this does not succeed, then the bomb must be detonated on site in a controlled manner. This sometimes goes wrong, see video ua-cam.com/video/ldob72UrBgA/v-deo.html
The blocked videos were due to GEMA (German collecting society for music) who could not get an agreement with youtube regarding adequat fees for artists' music being used on the platform. Resulting in total blocking of many artists which even voluntarily uploaded their music on YT themselves. But this got resolved some years ago, so is not a thing anymore...
The jailbreak one, I am from The Netherlands and it is the exact same thing here. The Netherlands and Germany has very similar things and our people originate from same and similar tribes, and I am half Dutch half German🤝🏻
wait till you hear the reason why we have to fasten our seatbelts and its illegal to not do so...In germany we have this law that you have to help others in need. Not financially, more like if someone looks like hes dying or getting robbet whatever. if your seatbelt is not fastened and you die in a carcrash you wont be able to help the other person involved in the crash. Thats why we have to fasten our seatbelts.
There is a great TedX talk about prisons in germany, I love the reactions to german/scandinavian prisons. Looking forward to that
They keep finding WWII bombs all the time, and piecemeal, sadly. Most turn up when a new constructing site is opened, either (if they already know that the area is problematic) by probing the ground, or because an excavator actually dug one of those up. They collect the duds, if possible, and detonate them in a remote place, beneath a thick layer of soil. If that is impossible, they have to evacuate all people in a radius of at least 500 yards, close all shops within the area, and try to defuse it in situ, sometimes by use of a remotely controlled robot. It doesn't always work out well. Munich experienced this when a controlled detonation failed in 2012, and set roofs ablaze.
My old boss lives in Mainz, one of the most heavily bombed cities in Germany. And so a non detonated bomb was found while constructing the neighbour house. My boss and his wife wanted to leave their house due to evacuation when suddenly the bell rang. It was the man who had to dispose the bomb looking for the best access for his machinery. He was pretty cool and asked my boss and his wife 'Wanna Take a look on the bomb with me? It's completely safe!' So they all went to the neighbouring site and looked at the bomb sticking in the ground. The bomb disposal expert was silent for a long time and said: 'Wow! I've never seen that before!
At this moment the wife of my boss turned white as a piece of chalk, because she thought that her house would bei ruined in a massive explosion. The bomb disposal expert saw her face and started laughing: "Don't worry! I know this type of bomb and I do know how it can be neutralized! But I never expected to see this here, because it's a bomb of the Royal Navy and not of the Royal Air Force. We are 400 miles away from the see, no idea how this came to Mainz.' Obviously this man was well prepared...
to point 24, the Beatles had performances in Hamburg for a long time. That's where you started your career.
I'm from Kiel and they find bombs every day in the "Kieler-Förde" (Kieler-Bay).
A friend is working at the bombsquad in Kiel and he told me it's true.
There is already a Building with a Mosque, Church and Synagog in one Builiding in Bern, Switzerland, It has even more, also a tempel for hindus, dergah and buddism, and rooms for alevites, bahaitum, sikh, ..... No issues at all there. It's called "Haus der Religionen" or "House of Religion"
Nope, unexploded bombs aren't usually found bunched together. They do have this designed intentional explosion, you know? A bomb failing to explode is like a car not driving. 😂 Having that occur with multiple bombs from the same load dropped from the same bomber was highly unlikely. Even back then quality controls, even for bombs, or maybe especially for bombs, was fairly high. You didn't want them to go off unintentionally, but with as much regularity when used in their intended way.
So multiple bombs NOT going off at the same time was rare. When multiple undetonated bombs are found in close proximity, THOSE are the cases that make national headlines. Simply a bomb defused/safely detonated rarely goes above the local small newspaper or news agency. There's just far too many found throughout Germany on a daily basis.
One such case of four unexploded bombs found on the same construction site happened last year here in Hamburg Harburg. Not all at once but within one week, and in very close proximity to each other. THAT was rate and noteworthy.
The Kampfmittelräumdienst, officially the combat munitions removal service, or the bomb squads, here are probably anong the most experienced ones on the planet. Cause they get called out so often. They have to be, cause they want to go home at the end of the day.😅
Edit: 15. A combined multi-confessional (Christian, Muslim, Jewish) building was already finished in the Hamburg Hafencity long before the plans in Berlin had been approved. 😂
To fact 15: In Switzerland, Bern is also a building with the name "Haus der Religionen" (House of Religions). There are 8 religions inside.
You dont need to say sorry for pausing. This is your reaction video. Take your time to react ^^
About the jail break: It doesn't mean you are let off the hook and just get away. You will still be put back into prison to complete your original sentence and you will also be ounished and held accountable for any damage or harm or othe law breaking you do, while traying to escape. It is just that the attempt and act of escaping itsself won't add an additional charge. So technically, if a prison were to mitakenly leave its doors open and a prisoner jist walked out, without stealing or manioulating or breaking stuff, it would be free of charge. But he would still be pit back into prison. And if he refused or showed resistsmce, that could be punished. So, even in that scenarion, where a prisoner was able to just walk out, in order to stay completely free of additional charges, he would habt just walk back in as soon as they tell him to. Its like "Nice try, nothing happened!"^^
Germany even invented the nuclear accident. In 1942 in my home town Leipzig.
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much of the unexploded Ordinance found at construction sites today originated in US/UK factories during the 40s.
The tradition to decorate your Christmas tree isn’t from Germany, ist first done in Elsass (france) in the 16th century, but Elsass is on the border to Germany.
Germany invented also the car, printing, fax machines, rockets, MP3 and so much more...
I think China had rockets a tad earlier.
It triggers me so much that when they talk about Berlin having the world largest zoo that they show the entrance of the one that is not it. Entrance shown is from the zoo in the western part of Berlin. But the world largest zoo is in the eastern part of Berlin most tourist probably don’t even know about. 😄
to the Fanta Lemonade story: In the first Fanta there were neither oranges nor limes. Sprite is also Fanta: Fanta Clare Lemon
5:00 no usually you dont find them together. Yes sometimes you find multiple bombs after another on one large construction site but like 99% of the time they arent found directly next to each other. Also if you think about it, this wouldnt make sense at all.
Im not sure if you actually understood what kind of bombs we find here.😅 Those are actually large bombs that you drop out of planes in war. You cant compare it to some old grenades someone threw into a lake or river in the states😂
we also invented the bike, motorbike and car, the lightbulb (25 years before eddison!), the telephone (i didnt know until now), tv, computer
who is "we"?
Thank you Sir for beeing so interested in my country 😍😍😊😊
In Berlin usually once a week a whole street block of people have to leave their apartments for hours because a bomb is found in the ground during construction work. So, yup, bomb findings are common in about every bigger city.
Hi JPS, I'm from Germany. Make a reserch about Henry Ford and his German connections. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT! Regards ...
Now 83,7 mio.and a lack of teachers.
The blocking of UA-cam content was actually initiated by Google when they assumed that GEMA was the owner of the copyright of the music played in the video. Google wasn't willing to pay a fair share of the revenue they made with placing advertisements in the video. Therefore Google showed instead of the Video a Blocked by GEMA notificatio . Later on Google had to remove it and the videos were just blocked. Today Google and GEMA have reached an agreement and the videos aren't blocked anymore.
They should make it easier to have children for the native population instead they fund migration of people who live off welfare and have many children while Germans have to work two jobs to afford just one child.
For University graduates it’s increasingly difficult to fund a family before 35y of age in Europe in general. Yet many migrants from countries that are not used to our system don’t care whether they can afford a child or not and have plenty. The population in Europe is only growing due to migration, the native population is in fact decreasing because they have less than 2.1 children pee couple.