Graham Harris, lol. That's ingenious!

I am down with you my native brother

Graham Harris lol I was just thinking how come no natives have done that yet

Sometimes real natives from North America do come and visit. Look for a documentary called 'Searching for Winnetou' by CBC Documentaries

Graham Harris I just thought of that as well, know some German as well

I'm german. This is absolutely true. Every! german child grows up with native american heros like winnetou. I would even say winnetou is a bigger hero than Siegfried the dragon slayer or Hermann. The stories are about different cultures and races (the white protagonists in the books who learned to do better) coming together to free people (saving natives together), its about the love of nature (wich is also a very important part of german culture in general), about friendship, about doing the right thing. When the kids play cowboy and indians its the natives who are the good guys and cowboys who are the bad ones, wich is probably different in the US.

me too because i share both bloodlines.

Pretty much, yes. We grow up with a very positive opinion about native americans. When i was in italy once it wasn't the italians i was hyped about, it was a native american i've met at a festival. Germans feel a deep admiration for the native americans.

Actually yes, in Germany most child’s have Indian heroes, I think authors like Karl may really implemented a picture of the Native American hero into our movies and books, which is in my opinion the correct way, seeing American soldiers portrayed as main characters in a movie about wounded knee, feels like seeing SS soldiers being the protagonists in a WW2 movie...

@@thisguy4490 I do too! My grandmother’s father was a German immigrant that came in the 1970s. I don’t know him well but he has a wife in Oklahoma.

I'm german. This is absolutely true. Every! german child grows up with native american heros like winnetou. I would even say winnetou is a bigger hero than Siegfried the dragon slayer or Hermann. The stories are about different cultures and races (the white protagonists in the books who learned to do better) coming together to free people (saving natives together), its about the love of nature (wich is also a very important part of german culture in general), about friendship, about doing the right thing. When the kids play cowboy and indians its the natives who are the good guys and cowboys who are the bad ones, wich is probably different in the US.

I completely understand you, I have the same problem with my culture, knights are a big thing in Germany, but many country’s portray them soo wrong...and as seen in this video, Indians are too. :/ xD

I promise you in the name of my German people, that we'll never destroy your graves or rob something from u. There's no need for that. We even would reproduce it.

Well said!

@@genderfluidebananenmarmela3190 Sorry to disappoint you, but German museums are full of stolen artefacts and even human remains. There was a discussion by the Karl May Museum for several years (!) about returning some human remains (!) to the the original families who had asked for their return. Some have been given back very recently, but by far not all.

Facts lmao

Don’t forget Puerto Rico

@@JS-vm7pg Peurto Rico is technically part of the U.S :)

Switch White's in America with Germans 🤣😂

Fr 🤚🏼🇩🇪🇺🇲🇧🇷🇦🇷🇨🇱🇲🇽

Well, as a german myself i could still imagine that we are quite annoying by bothering you with Winnetou-stuff :'D I mean it really is admiration and we romanticize you a lot but it guess it also could be quite burdening and exhausting to get treated like something special all the time. I probably would treat you very normal, even if i was very excited and would like to ask so many questions :D

I'm Anishinaabe to, from Ontario, I'm also German on my dads side. I know what you mean by the racism and prejudice experienced here. I live in Alberta but it's everywhere. It is starting to change but its a slow process.

Do you feel honoured or do you feel set down by this, as that display of your culture shall be far away from the truth? Keyword: cultural appropriation? Germans have ever since been fascinated by the colonization of Nothern America. Well, they made up a big part of those pioneers. BUT there has always been a romantic view on this - in bad and good ways. When German kids played robber and cop, thieve and police they played "Indian" and "Cowboy". Without any moral judgement - just as two different equal roles. So: Native Americans had always been a major part of German costumes, playing and carnival. But recently, some years by now, people discuss this as culturally inappropriate, of course it is a stereotypical display of native Americans. Shall you dress up like that or not? Those questions.

@@BlauerBooo you absolutely should allow people to dress up like that, I mean imagine a Native American dressing up as a knight, we can’t forbid him that, same the other way around. I also think that saying people of one culture can’t dress up as people of a different one is creating another gap between the people and could ultimately end up in a society where we have several classes. Imagine certain people wouldn’t be allowed to eat certain things or drive certain cars, only because they are a part/invention of this or that culture. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@Ibo Zambotnik bruh, you say white people can’t dress up like black people, but it’s ok if black people play roles in movies that in real live were white persons ? Bruh… And no, that isn’t racism, you don’t seem to understand the subject, racism is, when one person thinks he is superior to another person because the other person is different in some way. Everything else is NOT racism because it’s not related to the actual „race theory“. Also, how is it racism if the Native Americans are portrayed in a good way…in the 60s the Americans made western movies in which the Natives were always the bad guys, at the same time, The Germans made Western Movies As well, but the natives were never the bad guys, they were the heroes of these story’s.

@Ibo Zambotnik im Talking about historical people, I think it’s stupid in any way, I don’t want see a white guy play a black historic person but also don’t want to see a black guy playing a historic white person.

@Ibo Zambotnik well, that’s not true at all, we do appreciate culture, I for instance don’t dress up as an „indian“ as I know that I would looks hilarious, because I just don’t look like a Native American, but the fascist people wouldn’t dress up as Natives either, they wouldn’t dress up at all, as they would think that their culture is the only good one.

Well, they are free to do so, the Octoberfest is long enough.

Lederhosen are Bavarian, so is Oktoberfest. Which really shows how important it is to be educated on American Indian culture - I know it bothers me when people think that I have anything to do with Bavarian stereotypes when I'm from the north of Germany, so it must be even more annoying (or worse) for American Indians to see their different cultures just mushed together like this.

Sure, why not. Would be interesting and funny to see the results ;))

why not?

well oktoberfest is a kind of harvest celebration isn't it ... kind of like our own thanksgiving

Yes, but let's not forgot the "fearsome warriors" were engaged in plentiful and quite brutal tribal war before the white eye ever hit the american shores.

Yes thats true even to this day. In indigenous communities in Mexico and im sure here in USA as well sometimes theres family feuds and we endup killing each other, native against native. And in Mexico in states close to where im from in Morelos and Guerrero narcos are keeping up with the brutal ways of our ancestors. Beheadings and flaying enemies alive is a very common practice.

@@Mr.Brewer83A childish and pathetic argument. What one race does to another does not matter. Another race being involved in another is deserving of hate. In this case Europeans V Indigenous Americans.

I was surprised to see action figures based on the show when I visited Zurich. Preiser railroad modeling also has Old Shatterhand.

Look into your cultures connection to the swastika

I'm german. This is absolutely true. Every! german child grows up with native american heros like winnetou. I would even say winnetou is a bigger hero than Siegfried the dragon slayer or Hermann. The stories are about different cultures and races (the white protagonists in the books who learned to do better) coming together to free people (saving natives together), its about the love of nature (wich is also a very important part of german culture in general), about friendship, about doing the right thing. When the kids play cowboy and indians its the natives who are the good guys and cowboys who are the bad ones, wich is probably different in the US.

@@linguisticallyoversight8685 all cultures have connection to the symbol. it's not just called swastika everywhere sherlock

@@linguisticallyoversight8685 all cultures have connection to the symbol. it's not just called swastika everywhere sherlock

@@linguisticallyoversight8685 ??? I hope you learned more since this comment :D

I’m bit shock about learning this

I’m oji-Cree too by my adoptive family,

I’m also Cree from Manitoba and I’ve been to Germany where they’re obsessed with First Nations...I’ve been to this place but couldn’t watch the show due to schedule but some of it I found a bit insulting...anyways, if they are so interested in Natives I wonder if they’d also be willing to learn of the genocide and colonization of what happened

The angle James Cameron uses with the fantasy film Avatar , that film has some very well researched strong reflections and recognitions though its not perfect by any means there are visual acknowledgements within its core art examples ,, but there is also reflective material in the story that some can internally recognize , the five clans that were united after time of great sorrow in there history by a peacemaker, then a wounded warrior "Jake" sully,, (with a possible though not proven recognition of leader and tree planter Jake Swamp) that film is a primary example of "mirror storytelling" sort- of what's going on here, but If James Cameron had made Avatar a fictional film portraying real native peoples instead of Na'vi it would be looked upon as an act of cultural appropriation. James Cameron actually went to elders within these different nations to ask for there permission to use reflections of there cultural elements and got them first. then took the film examples back to them to see if they approved before using then in the movie.

@@marykay8587 You mean something like "Little Big Horn", That the white invaders started with scalping (as proof to get the bounty for each killed native american), that the "white man" broke mostly all contracts, that they used biological warfare by spending woolen blankets infected with rubella (or was it the measles?) to native indians which have no immunity against these bacterias, that governmental programs divided parents from their children (That should get a "christian" education) etc. - Yes we learn that at school in germany. But Karl May is fiction. He was many times in prison and at his lifetime he could not travel (no money) and was not happy about the political system and way of "Civilisation" in pre-germany and monarchy germany until 1918 with his military order culture. So he wrotes romantified stories about a better world where the "non civilized" (from that time european view) "tribes" where the better tribes and the european (german) culture the beast. He also wrote Books about fictional travels to north-east Afrika through the Sahara dessert and their normadic tribes etc.

Weird flex but ok

@@coomr419 haha.. really weird 😅

Actually, that is no achievement as the German language was not endangered or forbidden after the war. It remained the natural language of the majority without questions. While the Nazi Germans had endangered and forbidden indigenous minority languages inside Germany. The minority of the Romani people was targeted by the Nazis, many of them died in concentration camps. The minority of the Sorbs was not a target of genocide, but of culturecide. The plan was to assimilate them completely by destroying their language - by forbidding it. They removed the Sorbian teachers from the Sorbian schools and replaced them by Germans. From one day to the next, the Sorbian children had to speak German and were punished if they spoke their own language. But unlike to what was done to Native American children, the Sorbian children remained in their families, they had the love of their families surrounding them and they still could speak their language at home. And this was only 12 years, not centuries. Still, until today, many Germans who know everything about Native Americans don't even know that the Sorbs exist - not unlike some US Americans who think Native Americans would not exist anymore. I met one of them on a plane. When I told her that I had been visiting Native American friends in North Dakota, she was totally surprised 1) that Native Americans still exist today and 2) that they do not usually live in tipis all the time. The really admirable thing about the Germans is that the atrocities and the genocide of WW2 are taught to everyone in school - while the US fail to teach about the genocide of Native Americans in their schools.

Yes, but only after being bothered about it for 7 years.

​@@jana_toh good ! Finally!

+Nora Chrisler This is indeed weird, as the school should have provided a proper preparation for the student exchange. But maybe they had and the student just wanted to ignore reality. I checked with my English texts back in the 1980s (fourth year of English meaning 8th grade dealt with US history and contemporary US life). They included a chapter on Native Americans with the following topics: - brief history up to battle of Little Big Horn - detailed description of Wounded Knee massacre - living conditions on reservations - AIM and Wounded Knee occupation in 1973 - Interview with Robert Burnette (Rosebud) on the boarding school system in the 1930s - Interviews with students of Riverside Indian Boarding School, Anadarko, OK, in the 1980s - Song "Now that the buffalo''s gone" by Buffy Sainte-Marie Curriculums change, but slowly, so it it reasonable to assume that generations of German students have been and are still exposed to these topics in their English classes. Should be a good base for further research (if one is interested) and overcoming stereotypes.

+elgansitomolesto I never encountered any topics concerning American Indians in German school as far as I can remember. We barely covered the US Civil War too. All that I knew of American Indians was at first what German media conveyed (the Karl May stereotype) and then, later, what I saw in US TV Shows. These days, at least, there is the internet, but without an incentive to search for accurate information that doesn't help all that much either. I'm trying to make up for the gaps left by the school system in these areas, though. I just wish the schools I went to had given me some basics at any point.

Nora Chrisler Karl May has also never been in America. It was all in his fantasy .so you see what came out. A fantasy world. Beautiful, but not realistic

I had a similar experience living in Tucson; lots of German tourists looking to larp a "real Native American experience". While I'm not native myself, I grew up in Arizona around "real Indians", so I was puzzled by all this. It's like people from New York who believe everyone in Arizona rides a horse to work. Needless to say, all these German Tourists left disillusioned.

reminds me of most stupid americans who go to germany the first time expecting to see nazis ... stupid stereotypes indeed!!

Maybe because we germans were quite similar to you when we still were living as tribes 2000 years ago :) We were nomadic and very much bonded to nature. Also people (the romans) tried to conquer and enslave us. Fortunately for us our land wasn't so easy for them and not very attractive to settle down to. If our places would have been reversed we would have been genocides and you would have survived and evolved into an own nation. I would have liked to see a native american nation. Even today i wished that the USA would give you one of more states so you could build something on your own and be independend.

Fun fact: We have a kind of saying in German that Indians (Native Americans) are role models - especially for little kids - especially when it comes to tolerating pain. Ein Indianer kennt keinen Schmerz - >"An Indian knows no pain" is the German version of Man up! so to speak.

@@ulliulli That's true lol. Whenever I would complain my father would say "An Indian knows no pain".

And scoots etc

Indians by dark and German Assyrians are called chitite Caitite cananites and other Indians and are of Asia and native American also branch of Assyria the japeth line of Assyrians japeth in the bible Asian and native American line

+n8tivedragon It's not about authenticity and historical accuracy, it's about keeping the nostalgia of a literary hero alive. It's no different from Renaissance festivals or medieval reenactment conventions: they're more concerned with the tradition of the event and its influence on local culture rather than accurate portrayal of a specific historical age and culture.

Here in the u.s.a ( Native territory of all North American Native tribes numbering in the many hundreds ) we have grossly inaccurate portrayals of Native Americans all over the place, while many Native Tribes still exist and live in the u.s. too; plenty of the tribes having retained their language, old songs and dances, ancestral knowledge and ceremonies, and more. Its no surprise to see it mythologized and portrayed as mere fiction elsewhere.

We do not have grossly inaccurate portrayals of Natives all over the place. What are you trying to reference? The "red warrior" insignia adopted by a professional NFL team? The Wild West romances portrayed in old literature and Hollywood movies? What exactly do you think is being inaccurately portrayed? Do you seriously think American children aren't taught about Native Culture or those participants in the countless Native/European conflicts? Children are taught about the European colonization. They know that thanksgiving isn't an accurate portrayal of native and pilgrim relations. They are aware of the countless wars between natives and settlers: (from the early small pox epidemic to the french-and-indian war and many conflicts in between), the political volleying, the deadly relocation campaigns like the trail of tears...even modern day political strife found in some reservation societies. And this is the history from the white man's perspective because the Natives explicitly exclude whites from their society. That was their choice when they chose not to become indoctrinated. So the broad mythos of Native cultures, their legends, ceremonies and lore, are only learned piecemeal, as they're related to the whites because Natives don't happily volunteer this information to the world. Yet you, ironically, take offense if people *don't* know these cultural details. Foreigners don't learn Native history the way Americans do, obviously, because it's not integral to their national history as it is to ours. Just as Americans don't memorize all the English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish Kings, Europeans don't learn every detail about the indigenous people of America--they only learn what is relevant to them and the conflicts they themselves participated in. The Germans, in this case, idolize the literary hero, Winnegut, and the cultural ideals portrayed in that literature. You think Natives are the only culture that have been misconceptualized in literature? Look at the Jews, for instance. The Nazi's printed countless children's books that vilified Jews and painted Germans as a pure, worthy race. They attached social stigmas to the jews to help incubate this national prejudice. They didn't at all represent the Jewish culture accurately. So it's not exclusive to Natives, but it was equally intentional. The author knew he was taking "creative liberty" with his portrayal of Native culture. It was no accident.

The novels these shows are based on were written in the 19th century by a man (Karl May) who has never ever been to the US or Canada. And of course the author´s depiction of the native americans ("Indians") came from the then romantic image of the "noble savage". But these shows still are good for a thrilling adventure for 2 or so hours.

that's way beyond the point. they want the idea, not the reality. changes the story quite a bit

@al rode woopsy 😅

@al rode The movies are almost 60 years old, you can't expect people to refrain from spoilering anything with movies that old lol

Mato F, don't forget the movie Chingachgook The Big Snake. Even after the collapse of communism in USSR, we still played Indians and Cowboys in the 90-s in Kyrgyzstan.

+m hk I guess you refer to the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty of 1847. Was the theme of a movie ("In einem wilden Land") by german TV station Sat1 in 2013.

Kristof Krause : I have also read similiar accounts. I am a Quechuan from Peru and since I was a little boy I would always get an unexplainable vibe that Germans were very good people, even though all my history books and teachers were demonizing them. My love for Germany and her people grew and grew and I started getting into history. This feeling of connection that Native Americans and Germanic people have feels sort of like a cousin relationship so to speak, it's amazing. Could you please share some resources or books on the subject that I may read?

I'm german. This is absolutely true. Every! german child grows up with native american heros like winnetou. I would even say winnetou is a bigger hero than Siegfried the dragon slayer or Hermann. The stories are about different cultures and races (the white protagonists in the books who learned to do better) coming together to free people (saving natives together), its about the love of nature (wich is also a very important part of german culture in general), about friendship, about doing the right thing. When the kids play cowboy and indians its the natives who are the good guys and cowboys who are the bad ones, wich is probably different in the US.

Yes, the stereotype clothing and stuff is awfully wrong xD. When I was a little kid, my parents bought me a Indian „tunic“ ( I loved to pretend that I’m a warrior fighting of Custer and his troops ) looking at the tunic now at days I realized how inaccurate it actually was...😂

I'm german. This is absolutely true. Every! german child grows up with native american heros like winnetou. I would even say winnetou is a bigger hero than Siegfried the dragon slayer or Hermann. The stories are about different cultures and races (the white protagonists in the books who learned to do better) coming together to free people (saving natives together), its about the love of nature (wich is also a very important part of german culture in general), about friendship, about doing the right thing. When the kids play cowboy and indians its the natives who are the good guys and cowboys who are the bad ones, wich is probably different in the US.

Glad to hear that. But as others already said, the books of Karl May are a bit idyllic and unauthenticated, given he never was in America himself. But there is another German author, who wrote about the Oglala Dakota called Lieselotte Welskopf-Henrich. She lived a while with them and wrote about the Great Sioux War. "The Sons of Great Bear" Can't tell about the movie, but enjoyed the books. It was a counterpart to Karl May's books, which were forbidden in the DDR. Somehow a lot of Germans had way bigger fascination with the Natives than with the settlers. I even remember having seen pictures of an Iroquois delegation visiting the Third Reich in an exhibition. I just hope we as humans will learn to conserve the whole picture and not just pick out only the parts we prefer as we tend to do. That way a lot of rituals or symbolism will get lost or altered. Blessings!

Look into your cultures connection to the swastika

shut up, white boy..you're nothing but a cornball

I'm german. This is absolutely true. Every! german child grows up with native american heros like winnetou. I would even say winnetou is a bigger hero than Siegfried the dragon slayer or Hermann. The stories are about different cultures and races (the white protagonists in the books who learned to do better) coming together to free people (saving natives together), its about the love of nature (wich is also a very important part of german culture in general), about friendship, about doing the right thing. When the kids play cowboy and indians its the natives who are the good guys and cowboys who are the bad ones, wich is probably different in the US.

@@FehronEnnoia Hallo. Nice and captures my interest (your comment).

Well... When those books were written most German houses had neither running water nor electricity. It's a huge failure of the US that they make it so hard for natives (and many minorities as well). The difference in life expectations is shocking.

Miigwetch

Yes, but I think culture is not only skin deep. There are immense roots that go into one's bones.

No it’s not..

I see this, I’ve come across many Germans in the comment sections telling us to ride horses again and take back our country. It’s somewhat confusing, when Europeans come to mind I think of intolerable people. Then I see this and it makes sense. So Germany loves us? I can’t help but feel pride for some reason. I am of Cheyenne tribe in the Dakotas we were known for our towering height and “Heels in the ground, they will advance no more” lifestyle. I wonder if it’s a widespread view or very isolated. I’m very much invested in hearing more.

Stay away from us.

That was not in the 19th century but in the first decades of the 20th century. So this was definitely NOT before Karl May.

Sorry but we (Germans) don't. It isn't history by native americans. It is "our" narrative of the winnetou story and it much more reflects feelings of Germans in the 19th century, than real ideals or culture of native americans back then.

We have real life Indians in the United States who are keeping the old ways alive. So maybe you think we are not Americans or that we are all dead.

Thanks, maybe I'll check it out!

People actually have a very positive perception of Germans around the world. In Japan and most of East Asia, it's almost obsessive. The cars, Bundesliga, beer, sausages, "Made in Germany"..... The image of the "repentant Nazi" is probably mostly prevalent in the West.

I'm Native American, and I love Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool manager)

@@KienyejiChicken Who asked about Japan or East Asia…those countries/cultures have nothing to do with this video

Definitely

That's not a compliment, but you tried.

@@zelayadivina I guess it is meant as one

Wouldnt always be the best thing!

@@killerkraut9179 Why the explanation point? And why not?

@@AppleChips1995 Germany have it tried but a collection of bronzes ended in hand of a corrupt politican in his private collection! Bringing artifacts back can be very complicated ,should i talk more about this?

Adults playing Cowboys and Indianer is exceptional. But kids doing that was quite normal. When I was young we all did it. Many of us read Karl May inclusive myself. They are full of correct specific details. They also include some grave mistakes.

That's probably not a bad comperaison, besides the obvious difference of oppression.

ViolentFEAR well yeah I experience it

@@Friling. are you lakota?

Some things aren't meant to be this is one of them non American indian do not understand the way of life.

@@Friling. I respect that friend didn't mean to come off that way merry Christmas friend 👍✌

I think as long as it’s not meant offensively, I wouldn’t bother, I mean they want to be like you, that isn’t a bad thing at all, just a dream...

@@Friling. but it isn't theirs to copy, and we have asked time and again that you not do so. They are not Native people, and should not be doing this. You don't understand over there that a lot of these items are very sacred to us.

@@Philipp.of.Swabia no.

@@lolabeaulieu4530what an excellent argument…I have a better idea. Native Americans in the comments have been saying „we don’t like that we Are all being thrown in one pot“. I completely get that. But as long as people from other country’s think that there is only „the Germans“ and have a stereotype in mind, the Germans should be allowed to have their stereotypes of other people. Many Germans don’t like being referred to as „Germans“ as there are many different tribes/Nations, some not only with accents but entire different languages, such as the Swabians. If the same native Americans who complain in the comments are gonna learn all differences and historical importance’s of all these Germanic tribes, then they can complain about the „Germans“ putting them all in one pot. But otherwise it’s just a huge pile of hypocrisy…

In every theatre play and every movie actors dress up as somebody they are not in real life.

It would be cool to live in a tipi tho. So I don't think for most it's a negative stereotype. But even then not all nations lived in tipis.

That would be a great future; I wonder what state the original inhabitiants of Turtle Island would be in today if the Germans settled the Land versus the British. What a grand wonder. what a wish indeed.

@@featheramericangoodeagle idk about Germans but I've heard that the French settlement in North America wasn't as bad and they even became friends and that's why the metis exist

Samurais aren't a people, Samurai is a career. A way of living. But not an isolated culture in itself.

I consider all Germans 1/16 Cherokee👏

racism has no place

Unless purchased fairly from the American Indian? But no scalps!

Scalps were Baptists' invention to carry out extermination of natives.

Let's just appreciate the fact that they were embracing native Indian culture with a pure heart, I hardly can find any original natives doing their culture thing anymore.

Let's just appreciate the fact that they were embracing native Indian culture with a pure heart, I hardly can find any original natives doing their culture thing anymore.

***** I'm part Apache too. It doesn't bother me. If you want to laugh at someone just laugh at a gay parade that looks like a contemporary Pow Wow. They look like they are trying to revert back to an Apache.

yes but Germans and other Europeans don't actually know much about the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. They are well intentioned but surprisingly uneducated. I doubt there's any malice but definitely a little ignorance.

+Da Sa As a German, I can attest to that. We aren't really exposed to American Indians and their different cultures, except for the stereotypical Karl May-like portrayal. It's natural that the subject wouldn't come up as much, since it's so far removed from our daily lives (compared to people in the US, who do need to know these things since they live so close to directly affected American Indians), but the lack of accurate portrayal in the media definitely contributes to many misconceptions and a lot of ignorance.

Good question, because that would be a good thing to do with the money...

our country wanted to enslave women and children??? I think you got this wrong. Arminius was not the greatest hero. By the way Arminius was not his germanic name but a Roman "nickname".

Everyone knows the Karl May stories are made up, but they did open the door, and did create a bond.

Which part of South America?

@@Goldrunner1169 Pretty much all of it I would think. Though i had forgotten making that comment.

Ryan Rodrigues, why are Germans confusing then-seems like YOU have the wrong info/view on Germans? LOL

Germans are very complex. And you really have to live in that country to fully appreciate this. Outside Germany, much of the world, especially Americans, think of Germans as "repentant Nazis". Well, if you really want to get schooled in a very long and disapproving lecture, mention the word "Nazi" to a German!

Ryan Rodrigues believe me, I'm confused by everything in and about Germany...as a German

So you also know the german people only from Hollywood.