Thinking of Germany, what comes to your mind?

[Rumpel]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

 

[Grand Mal]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

Crowded.
Out here, British Columbia, we get lots of German tourists. They seem to like the access to back-country wilderness. Something in the ancestral German psyche that makes wilderness important to them, I think.
British Columbia is bigger than France and Germany combined and has about 5 million people. That seems to really appeal to Germans so I have the impression Germany must be crowded.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

 

[Rumpel]

so far no N word and no adolf word .... good ...

 

[Daisy]

Oktoberfest...we had a restaurant here that would have it every year, serving the yummiest German dishes, but alas, it closed...I went every year...

 

[Lycanthrope]

Hiking. A language professor in university, herself German, told the class Germans love to hike.

Precision and punctuality.

Good beer and pretzels.

And oftentimes confusing sense of humor (or lack thereof).

And since I grew up during the Cold War, the division between east and west and the reunification in 1989-1990.

 

[Daisy]

 

[Rumpel]

Hheine wrote ...

if i think of Germany at night
i cannot sleep .....

 

[Lycanthrope]

If you can manage to ignore the history surrounding it, Germans are capable of some bangin' marching songs:

 

[MAGAnificent]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

From being stationed there in the 1970s, beer, knockwurst, Oktoberfest, the autobahn, castles, and close proximity to a ski resort.

 

[Perotista]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

Germany, my mind just drew a blank. Which is strange since I spent 3 ½ years with the 11th ACR guarding the East German border. It’s not beer and sausage that comes to mind now thinking about Germany. It’s OP Alpha and Downs Barracks. My, have times changed. Once I left, I never gave Germany another thought.

 

[Rumpel]

If you can manage to ignore the history surrounding it, Germans are capable of some bangin' marching songs:

i know also a real Erika in life

 

[Lycanthrope]

i know also a real Erika in life

I always liked the name. Wanted to give it to my daughter but her mother wasn't having it.

 

[btthegreat]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

Of course its obvious. I think of you, Rumpel.

 

[Sven Karma]

'Ausfahrt' is a word that never ceases to amuse the english-speaking mind.

 

[Rumpel]

'Ausfahrt' is a word that never ceases to amuse the english-speaking mind.

i can imagine ...



ausfahrt and einfahrt

 

[btthegreat]

I offered up humor, because I don't like my truthful answer and no German will. Its incredibly unfair, but in my imagination, the first image that comes to my mind, is German soldiers marching with that swastika. Nazism is a small sliver of that nation's history and it was multiple generations ago, but on my television, I watched those WW2 movies, those documentaries, those biographies of Hitler, Himmler and yes, I can't get those concentration camp victims out of my head.

I am sorry, and I truly recognize that those images are ones modern Germans have worked very hard to replace, but those represent my truthful answer.

I want to be abundantly clear, that the history does not color my view of the people. When I meet Germans and I have many times, hear that language and I do not associate them with Nazism. But that is not the question posed. You asked about the country and its not the modern German flag that comes up first.

 

[Rumpel]

I offered up humor, because I don't like my truthful answer and no German will. Its incredibly unfair, but in my imagination, the first image that comes to my mind, is German soldiers marching with that swastika. Nazism is a small sliver of that nation's history and it was multiple generations ago, but on my television, I watched those WW2 movies, those documentaries, those biographies of Hitler, Himmler and yes, I can't get those concentration camp victims out of my head.

I am sorry, and I truly recognize that those images are ones modern Germans have worked very hard to replace, but those represent my truthful answer.

I want to be abundantly clear, that the history does not color my view of the people. When I meet Germans and I have many times, hear that language and I do not associate them with Nazism. But that is not the question posed. You asked about the country and its not the modern German flag that comes up first.

i can understand

 

[EthanB]

I enjoyed Bavaria. The Oktoberfest was great; I recall seeing one guy trying to get into a taxi several times before he made it. The gals in post #3 were also there. Did a tour of Eagles Nest. Lots of pork products too.

 

[Peter]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

Cars
Football
Efficient german sex! (it's a quote I always remember from a TV show and I have no idea why).
Engineering.

 

[Sweden]

Beer, sausage, and sauerkraut ...

and what else?

A young state, only around 150 years old.

 

[btthegreat]

i can understand

I truly think this series is why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War I watched all the episodes as a youth on television. (they were not colorized when I watched it) but The in- depth treatment week after week sauterized specific black and white images into my mind.

 

[Rumpel]

I truly think this series is why. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War I watched all the episodes as a youth on television. (they were not colorized when I watched it) but The in- depth treatment week after week sauterized specific black and white images into my mind.

a terrible tragedy

 

[Lursa]

so far no N word and no adolf word .... good ...

That IS my first thought...so I didnt post it.

I'm not happy that that's the case either.

 

[Rumpel]

That IS my first thought...so I didnt post it.
I'm not happy that that's the case either.

i can understand