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Before we start a construction (Tiefbau) we normally call the "Kampfmittel-Räumdienst" who do a check regarding bombs in the ground. They use Fotos from the allied reconnacaince which documented the results of bomb raids.

"Fresse" is a noun related to "Fressen, fressen". In German we distinguish between food intake from humans vs. animals/beasts. "Menschen essen, Tiere fressen." (Even though some humans have table manners that qualifies their food intake as "fressen".) So the actual process is "fressen", the food is called "(das) Fressen", and the mouth is logically "(die) Fresse". By the way: Many English cussword also are difficult to translate to German.

I guess he said: "Scheiß die Wand an!" a way to say "It does not matter" in a mixture of resignation and anger when you failed or made a mistake.

We can feel the drop in temperature, when the Ice Cream car gets closer. We do not need any acoustic signal at all.

The unearthed bombs are just one WW2 remain still haunting us - After the war shittons of bombs and ammunition were simply dropped in the North- and Baltic Sea, For one these old bombs and grenades regularly find their way into fishing nets, and then also the stuff slowly corrodes and releases dangerous chemicals. One word of warning esp. for tourists at the Baltic sea is be careful when looking for amber - it could be amber because the Baltic is full of it, but also phosphorous which looks similar and will self ignite once dry in your hand or pocket and is almost impossible to extinguish.

I was living in Hamburg 9 years ago and my German was still quite bad. So one day I was waiting at the train station and saw a message about a bomb and I really panicked 😂😂😂 But then I saw everyone was super calm and managed to understand it was about one of those old WW2 bombs... I did not need a coffee that day, I can tell you that 🤣

I absolutely love your channel! I listen to your videos when I'm walking on the treadmill and find them so interesting! :D I also studied German and lived in Berlin with mein Mann for several years, but now I'm back in the states, and it's fun to hear your experiences there, I can relate to so much of them!! :)

I'm with a fire department in the Ruhrgebiet (Ruhrarea) in western Germany. During World War II, it was the center of the German arms industry, and thus a primary target for the USAF and the RAF. Unexploded bombs of all calibres are regularly found here. And there are still thousands in the ground! Recently someone found a thermite incendiary bomb in his garden.

Vacation is important for health not just for fun. Those who only work are at risk of burnout, a form of depression, i.e. a serious mental illness that can lead to incapacity for work. In addition, the efficiency of one's own work results decreases without vacation. In the long run I produce less and the quality of my work gets worse. Actually, it should be the case that the employer should not only hire as many employees as he needs to cope with the ongoing work. Normally, the employer should always employ additional workers to cover vacation, sick leave and maternity leave. From colleagues who are not on vacation should be expected to overtake only very urgent work for the absent employees on vacation that cannot be postponed. A boss who does not hire enough employees does not win, but loses. Employees who are constantly overworked work slower and their results are of poor quality. Those employees get sick more often and die earlier.

In most places the ice cream truck is the last one to roam streets for business. There were farmers selling vegetables (mostly taters -- potatoes for those who are not familiar with southern drawl), there were people collecting metal and old fabrics. The bell was their announcement that they were "here". They also usually had a schedule to come every second Thursday for instance.

Yay, comments active. I am glad you are back. [waves frantically from Oldenburg]

WW2 bombs are found regularly in Hungary, too. I live close to a place that used to be a military airstrip during the war. The place was thoroughly bombed of course. Every time there is a construction of some sorts, they find bombs and the whole 'hood is evacuated. Happens every year and this is just one place. The worst I think are the mines and bombs found in rivers and lakes.

Hi Lila, regarding marriage differences, talk to your boyfriend and compare. There are so manny more differences than just the cars. You could make a whole video about it. To give You a starting point for the discussion with your boyfriend: - The process how to apply for a marriage at the Standesamt in Germany vs. what to do to get an approval for the marriage. - The different celebrations in the US vs. Germany. Polterabend, … - The seating of the guests in the church. In the US I experienced, it was dependent on if You are a relative of the bride or the groom. - Also there are differences regarding the clothes. Rent vs. buy. - … Best regards, Ralf

The Song "Hoch die Hände Wochenende" is inspired by the saying.

Bombs are found all over Germany. Often near train tracks, train stations, old industrial centers and cities. After the attacks, a plane with two cameras flew behind and took stereo photos. Some old bombs can be found with it. Dangerous if a bomb fell into an already existing crater or if a second bomb buried it. There were two types of bombs: with an impact detonator and with a long-term acid detonator. Bombs that are found today all have a defect so that they have not yet been deployed. Most of the time, a demolition engineer can remove the detonator. Because this is life-threatening, it is usually done remotely. But there are also acid igniters whose position must not be changed because nobody knows why it did not ignite. Then only blasting it on site helps. Once, a few roofs caught fire in Munich because of this, but the fire brigade was quick to help. Many panes of glass were still broken. There are also cordoned off areas because of old monitions and mines. Better not enter. However, the mined strip between west and east Germany has been cleared. It was dug up several times with tanks and old mines exploded. It is not allowed to keep old military objects, they must be disarmed. Belgium, the Netherlands and England were also involved in bombs. Oh yes, the German man who shot rockets to England later built the NASA rockets and was involved in the moon landing. For this he got the American citizenship. Some of his colleagues found themselves in the Russian camp. This laid the foundation for the start of the Sputnik and russian space agency. But they were never mentioned.

I don't think the bombs were "placed". They were dropped on the cities from aeroplanes pretty randomly and some of them were duds. Take the bombing of Dresden: 1,249 British and American heavy bombers dropping their loads on Dresden destroying the city and maybe 25,000 people in four raids. They pretty much missed the industrial infrastructure outside the historical centre which would have been a legitimate strategic target. Yeah, Americans never had and probably cannot imagine 1,249 enemy bombers on an American city destroying it and tens of thousands of civilians.

The correct phrase is:"Hoch die Hände, Wochenenede!". And it translates to like "Hands up (like, take your hands off your work), it's Weekend!".

If you are to build a house, there is not only the bombs that suck but, and especially if your in the south, you will often find remains of the Romans. This can get really expensive and take a long time with archaeologists digging it up.

Here in our region there are 3 instances that use Bell rining on the streets. Its either: - ice van - Scrap an garbage disposal Merchants - Food Vans from specific regions on nearby countrys that sell specialities

Moin Lila, zu dem Thema mit den Blindgängerbomben: In Kiel sind allein in diesem Jahr etliche Fliegerbomben aus dem 2. Weltkrieg entdeckt und entschärft worden! Erst gestern, am 04.11. wurde in Neumünster ein Blindgänger entschärft werden! Die meisten Blindgänger, habe ich mal gelesen, werden wohl in Potsdamm, bei Berlin gefunden. Die Stadt war in den letzten Kriegstagen ein heftig umkämpfter Ort. Lg Ben

Nice video! :)

A special sound, not from the ice cream truck, though, is the (nowadays electronic) whistle blown by the "Lumpensammler"/"Schrotthändler", a truck collecting recyclable materials, mostly metals.

That honking in a wedding parade thing is a new development. At least for me. I think it was in the 90s that it came about. The flowers are a longer tradition.

My grandma had a car dealership and it closed in 2009. When they were demolishing the building they found two big WW2 bombs underneath (still active duds). One was a 4000 pound british blockbuster bomb and the other one was a 250 kg bomb. 10.000 people had to be evacuated. So i basically spend a lot of time right above two active bombs as a kid.

It ain't "Scheiße an die Wand" it's "Scheiß die Wand an". Translated to English it would be: "crapping the wall (on)". It is like saying:"I'm going nuts" - "Ich werd verrückt" but on a funnier sounding way. It's meant for situation like having a big problem or a weird situation. Doo not know why, but I like ur content. Keep going.

I live in Huertgen Forest/Germany and over here we have to call the "Kampfmittelräumdienst" before starting to build a house because there are a lot of "Blindgänger" (bombs that didn't explode in WW2) over our area 🙈 If they find something, the area is evacuated... one day I couldn't go home during my lunch break (I work in our little village) and had to stay at work 🤣🙈 Very common over here 🙈

I am also from Hamburg and you got the bomb findings a lot here. I would say at least once a month in Hamburg alone you got some evacuations going on to safely remove found bombs. Especially in the area around the harbour (which was obviously a prime target during the war) there are still so many undetected ones left, and are found quite often. If a bomb is found and to be removed in the harbour area in most cases also the highway (A7) has to be closed for some hours. But even though it sounds so dangerous (and it could be if handled wrong) i have not heard about a bomb detonated uncontrolled during construction because it was missed. And even the removal works fine and safely. At least i cant remember anything else in the last couple of years

I think the icecream truck bells is something you learn as a kid, specially when growing up in smaller german cities. There is another melody that the metal-collectors use (at least wehre i grew up) as a signal, and as a kid i allways thought the metal-collectors were icecream trucks as well. Extra fact: The big alarm bells in germany (and i guess europe) have melodies as well telling you what kind of alarm it is, but since we've gone decades with only fire alarms nobody remembers what 'bombing' or 'chemical' alarms sound like.

I just started working and also during the probation period Probezeit I have 8.5 holiday for this year.

Not just in Germany. When I was a school governor in Rotterdam we needed to do some work on the sewage pipes underneath one of our school buildings. The contractor was back up within minutes after starting the work. “You’d better contact MoD”, he said, “there’s a bomb down there.”

"Hoch die Hände - Wochenende" could be translated like "high up the Hands its Weekend" - similar rhyme like in german, but the same meaning :D :D :D

Ice Cream trucks have a quite humble origin. Before the existence of electrical fridges cooling with a heat pump and a coolant, there were trucks loaded with ice driving around, ringing, and then the people know that they could buy a new block of ice to put in their cooling cabinet, where it slowly thawed, so it had to be replaced regularly. Only with time, the ice trucks also started to sell ice cream, as they had no problem to keep the ice cream cool while doing their rounds.

I always understood "Scheiss die Wand an!" as in "Shit the wall!" .. so yes, a mixture of resignation, anger and maybe even relief from stopping trying something too hard.

I herd once from an accident with WW2 bomb. An excavator hit the detonator of a bomb. Mostly they know if in this area could be bombs in the ground. Mostly they find it without damaging anything. The disarm specialist trys to remove the detonator. If this is not possible they have to blow it up.

Hi. I know one good Thai restaurant in Hamburg I always go there and they have Pad Ziu Eiw with pork,chicken or shrimps . The restaurant name “Samui Thai Cuisine”. Maybe you can try. 😊

Sehr gut

Here in Belgium, we still finds shells from WWI fairly regularly.

I always explain to people that bombs are found so often, there are commercal companies that remove bombs. Whereas in he Netherlands I think it's always the military that remove them.

Your beautiful nice video just found your channel and you seem like an interesting love you and your channel

the most important part of the car at a wedding is the bow. My parent's is still attached to their car after nearly 30 years. you are not supposed to take them off, they have to let them fall off

Hoch die Hände! Wochenende!

Cultural differences American: Hey what's up German: They found a WW2 bomb in the street American: OMG, i'm shocked. Is everything ok?? German: Yea, happens all the time. No big deal. --- German: Hey what's up American: Someone got shot in the streets German: OMG, i'm shocked. Is everything ok?? American: Yea, happens all the time. No big deal.

When i was small our ice-cream trucks did play music, but a different melody from the US one. Cannot name/find it though. sometimes it is just a handbell

I am from Berlin. In the City Oranienburg just North of Berlin they still find more WWII bombs than usual and have to evacuate several times each year. I think there was a lot of (war) industry in that area and it was severely attacked during the war.

in Magdeburg in germany there where bombs found a lot like 6-12 a year or more

You're so right about missing American breakfasts! Every morning here I eat a halbes Broetchen mit Lachs oder Mett oder gekochtem Ei for breakfast... it's good, I like it, but I'm getting tired of it--especially because they eat much the same thing for supper (Abendbrot). Brot mit Aufschnitt for breakfast _and_ dinner. The bread in Germany is fantastically good and so are all the cold-cuts ... but I get tired of eating so much bread.

I was in the Army in the 80s in Wildflecken Germany and we ran across unexploded ordnance all the time. It usually just smoked when you hit it or you would see it and stop. Scary stuff

Several years ago a road construction worker died during construction work on the Autobahn, near Aschaffenburg.

Now, what about an "Eisbombe" after dining, served with an annoying ring bell, when placed on the table? 🤣🤣🤣

The City of Oranienburg (north of Berlin) has its own Bomb Disposal Team and because they find soooo many bombs there, they became such experts, that they are even send to other Countries to train other Bomb experts. Oranienburg had large ammunition Production back in the Day....it was a main Bombardement target for the Allies. People who live in bombardement-Areas are pretty much some of the most chilled people by now.

bei Uns hatte der Eismann die Mr. Sandman Melodie und vorher einen anderen Sound

Working in Germany, you have to deal with the fact that people go on vacation a lot and they are not available for a week or more several times a year. In the US this is not the case but you have to deal with the fact that people leave the company or the work place to do something else without any notice in advance. I heard several times "Hi guys, today is my last day. I'm going to work at .... from next week on.". Also people are getting moved to a different place within the company at the beginning of the work day and the others have to find a way to continue with the work. This is very unusual in Germany. Most of the time people have some weeks of time to finish work and introduce others into the job to get a smooth transition.

We say "schönes Loch im Hemde" (nice hole in shirt) - because it's sounds like "schönes Wochenende" (nice weekend)

You look fanastic here! ;-)

3:06: You're overestimating the danger these old bombs pose. They usually get deactivated without further ado and nobody gets hurt.

This ice cream truck thing is a huge problem! ;-)

They had to explode one under a controlled Environment about 3 km from here, that they found under a Spielplatz (childrens play ground). The Kampfmittelräumdienst couldn't defuse it, so they exploded it. I felt the ground shaking even 3 km away

Here in Stuttgart last week it was found a unexploded bomb in north-east Stuttgart

that is the same here in netherlands with ww2 bombs they find on a regular basis

I had to leave the schengen zone for three months, and the left over bombs were the reason I spent it in Croatia and not Bosnia. The beach helped the decision too 😅

Vor ca. 4 Wochen hat man in meiner Nachbarstadt eine alte Bobme gefunden und, ich meine, in Essen auch. Ist hier "leider" wirklich normal, daß man fast wöchentlich was findet. ;)

Your face is so familiar, didn't you use to have another youtube channel maybe 10 years ago?

Stupid question: Have you ever dressed up as Leela from Futurama on Halloween or Carnival/Madi Gras? And if, how did you realize the "mono-view"? Ciao Ps. Bombs on germany 2.000.000 tons, but on Vietnam (almost same size) it's 2,5 times that amount.

Regarding the dangers of old WW2 duds: About 9 years ago, I was in my living room one late morning when suddenly there was this deep distant boom, that ever so slightly shook the windows. The next day it was all in the newspapers. In a neighbouring town 20 km's away an excavator driver had accidently triggered an air-mine. Of course he was killed instantly. But can you imagine the strength of the shockwave if it managed to still rattle windowframes where I was, that far away?

Hah, when you talked about the bombs being found, I assume you were referring to that construction site in Hamburg - Harburg. They had four (4!) separate bomb removals in one week just barely 6 weeks ago. Yepp, Germans are more or less immune to bomb scares now. It's more of a 'meh, another one?!?' kind of situation. Only the really big ones really raise eyebrows. I've checked the number of major bombs being found and disarmed by the bomb squad, the Kampfmittelräumdienst, and it numbers over 4500 bombs on average per year found and disarmed. The evacuations are more for safety reasons so no one gets hurt in case the bomb squads can't disarm the bombs safely, and actually have to detonate it in a controlled fashion. That does NOT include minor caches of live ammunition being found and destroyed regularly.

In Germany, the ice cream trucks play Für Elise.

"Sch*** an die Wand" - could be inspired by the German dubbed version of "Donnie Brasco", as a "translation" of forgetaboutit....

"Hoch die Hände, Wochenende!" is the phrase you're looking for the tgif

According to wikipedia, around 5.500 unexploded bombs are found each year in Germany!

during droughts people find a lot of bombs in dried out riverbeds

The wedding honking is actually a turkish habit, and people who want to show off their great wedding celebration adopted this annoyance. It is not a german tradition.

3:12 Yes, that's nothing new.. we had to evacuate for several hours because some neighbours child found a live US-WW2-Granade while playing in the woods.

There is unexploded ordnance (aka bombs or land mines) in Hawaii and California all leftover from WW II. Learned this while hiking in Marin county and on the Big Island in Hawaii

I guess the US food names you are missing here is probably because these name are "americanized" food names. for example: in a pizzeria here you won't find normally a pizza Hawai. no Italian cook would put ham and pineapple on a pizza.

"Scheiß die Wand an!" Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn. :D

Never saw or heard Ice-Cream-trucks in Germany

"American breakfast culture" ... that got me rolling on the floor laughing.

Well, Hamburg was indeed a special target during WWII. There were several heavy bombings which led to the destruction of almost half of the whole city of Hamburg. And that happened for other areas and cities in Germany as well. So it is not unusual that bombs are still be found every now and then, in Hamburg several each year. Yeah, it is something that we are used to experience. The only place in the US where I could imagine something like that would be Pearl Harbour, I guess. But honestly I don't know if that's the case.

the bombs have not been 'placed here' as you say in 3:50 lol but dropped by western allied air raids mostly on densly populated cities all over germany - numbers of civilian death due to that are difficult to examine, but i think its commonly accepted, that they amout up to something like 500.000 due to that. so way more civilian death, than the US suffered in soldiers death in the whole war (surely, the fighting in the western front was mainly short and not as hard, but still). the eastern front was were the hard fighting took place, the western front was then just the nail in the coffin for the third reich

Another sad but interessting fact about the second world war is, that they found still 200 Soldiers in the ground in Germany every Year. Germany was havely bombed. Some cites were 90% destroyed. And even in my hometowhn which has a populatation of 86.000 people and was hardly boombed, they sometimes find bombs.

6:00 "Scheiß die Wand an"

That wedding parade sounds like a Turkish wedding. That's what Turks do in the Netherlands when they get married. Also when Turkey wins a football match, they parade around town honking in their cars.

Oh there are ice-cream trucks in Germany? Never seen or heard one here.

There are two ways to deal with bombs when they go off: You either have to be very far away or very close. 😉😉😉

Yeah there are some old bombs sometimes, but in my whole lifetime I do not remember anybody being harmed by one of those. It really isn't a big deal anymore... most are very very corroded and would not blow up if you would jump on them and since it is just pretty normal to find some people are very used to it. But yes... that is the beauty we all left behind when WW2 was over. It is all over Europe and of cause in Iraq, Afanghanistan, Viertnam and so on that is pretty common too. But in those other conflicts there are a lot of land mines which where intended to blow up people stepping on them still there, not a big bomb burried pretty deep under the ground for 60 years which never were intended to blow up with small amount of vibrations and force created by "normal day" stuff. "Meine Fresse" is a little like "Oh my god" or something like that... but yes, "Fresse" is another word for "Gesicht" (face). Why? I am really not sure ;).

They rarely explode though. It's not as dangerous as it may sound. But, of course, they still take it very serious, just in case.

What is this "Pseudo-Italian" thing you're talking about ? BTW there is no Italian kitchen, there are several hundreds (every 50 km dialect and cooking changes)

WW2 bombs are still found in many parts of Europe.

If you mean "scheiß die Wand an", then this is not coursing rather than an expression of big surprise ... although it may be a kind of weird way to express it. "Meine Fresse" also is rather an expression of surprise, however with "ist das scheiße" following, he seemed to be surprised how bad something was :-)

You should see the number of unexploded bombs we left behind in Southeast Asia. We dropped 2.4 million tons of bombs over there, the largest bombing campaign in history. There has got to be a better way. Hopefully, smart bombs will greatly reduce the collateral damage from the bombs we drop.

Very personable. 😁

Yeah, that honking is soooo annoying. It was different in the 80s when I grew up. Not the "Hochzeitsgesellschaft" would honk their horns like crazy, but the other cars on the road did it BRIEFLY to greet the "Brautpaar". That was way nicer and less egocentric. Then came absolute honking madness when there's a win of the German soccer team in a tournament. I want the 80s back - without the hairstyle and fashion, of course.

That musical sound from the ice cream man is almost like the most of the Germans garbage dealers they drive around with their cars collection your old metal trash and other stuff

I think there are half a million or more of those bombs in the ground in Germany (because the British and USA bombed Germany). The exact number is unknown of course, but they are everywhere in bigger cities, especially close to (former) train stations, military bases and airports. In 2 years, there were 3 bombs found within ~1-1.5 km where I live.

Leela, as your german is already very good meanwhile you are promoted to learn all the bad words and phrases as well. I was told those english words by friends and It helped me to shut the mouth of some bi....s who always were rude to me due to my bad english speaking on a trip in NZ. Having 28 days for vacation is good and I think you ran into a bad situation. Normaly besides budget plannings in jan there is also the vacation planning for the employees and of course for non married people or those without kids they have to stand back with their plannings in their department to those who have kids and tied on scholl holidays. On the other hand its not bad cos pre- and after season are mostly cheaper anyway. Btw, Hände hoch and hoch die Hände can have a totally different meaning. The person with a 38special in front of you would say Hände hoch and Hoch die Hände when you go into your weekend. I havent heard very often to say this going into the weekend.

A guy in my neighbourhood found a WW2 bomb on a construction site, put it in His car and drove around for like a week with it before he tried to turn it in at the police, ofc in the busy city center of the Kiez so the most possible people had to leave their homes Till the explosion 😅

hoch die Hände Wochenende

I remember my Oma in the 60s had a saying.... 'Friss und stirb'. 😄

Guns in the U.S. kill. Bombs found in Germany don't. I mean, they do, but in the last 10 years, there was one incident killing one construction worker. Before that, in 2010 3 members of a bomb squad were killed, but given that about 10% of ordinances were duds and they get found all the time, there is a higher chance to be hit by lightning on the way to work than getting killed by a bomb as construction worker. So, it may be a "hazard" but that's only theoretical - there is a reason that bomb is still not blown up - it's a dud. It was one back then, it most likely is one right now. PS: I'm not anti-gun. I'm a German expat in the US with guns. However, it is too easy to buy guns, none of them are registered, and people that shouldn't have guns have them.