Naked same sex showering after sport is normal. We do this since we were kids. Mixed sex naked showering is considered normal in FKK/Sauna context.

The 57 km/h was more like 60+, but they deduct a "tolerance" to account for possible measuring inaccuracies, so they only accuse you of 57.

You don't get pulled over.. you just get a nice picture and a fine in the mail 😂😂😂

I got pulled over in Switzerland for driving 52 km/h in a 50 zone. Totally surprised i asked, if there´s any tolerance in Switzerland. The uniformed guy said: "well no, cause otherwise we would have written 52 on the traffic sign." A-ha, ok, so swiss preciseness! (and fines are quite high for Austrian dimensions!

Years ago I bought an american Cosmopolitan (magazine) and I was really kind of horrified how childish everything about nearly any sexual topic was reported in there like it would be inappropriate or something, so yes, I guess we Germans are quite comfortable with nudity and sexual topics and I like it just the way it is.

FSME is the abbreviation for Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis, which is tick-borne encephalitis in English, a viral infectious disease involving the central nervous system. Southern Germany (as well aus Austria, Switzerland and lots of other European countries) are risk areas for infected ticks. There's a vaccine available. If you live in the regions where it's endemic it's highly recommended to get it if you spend a lot of time outside.

The cross you asked about is the so called "Tatzenkreuz" (cross paty) and was used by many groups and states mostly in sigils and flags throughout history until today. The Nazis tried to grift historic symbols and mythology wherever the could and reintroduced it in its form as the order of the iron cross, but it is not neccessarily connected to them. Sevaral knight orders used it like the Templars (Teutonic Order), Maltesers, Johannites,... thats why it is sometimes also called the "templar cross" or "crusaders cross". The free masons use a form of it, it was a symbol for the north german Hanse and sometimes also called "Hansekreuz", and it is still the central element of the insignia of the German armed forced.

I'm German and I'm a man, but I'd still find it weird if some stranger complimented me on or talked about any part of my body while under a shower. But at the same time, I wouldn't mind and simply thank them, finish my shower, and leave. I can only imagine how much weirder and potentially uncomfortable this would make someone from a different country, especially a woman at that young age.

A journeyman's certificate is the recognition of a test in the craft and forms the basis for having in-depth knowledge of this profession and being able to work as a skilled worker. Furthermore, this journeyman's certificate is a prerequisite for the master's title. A journeyman's certificate is an honor!!!!

Naked same sex showering is normal. Talking about big breasts, body of one of the persons in the shower is not normal.

Lyme disease is no joke, it can lead to life long damage to the nervous system and can be very hard to treat when it becomes chronic. Early treatment with combined broad spectrum antibiotics is very effective. There is an FSME vaccination, so anyone living in the south of Germany should get that. No Lyme disease vacciantion. Interesting fact: Lyme disease was not an issue in the USA for a very long time as the area where it existed was very limited and compact, but then they cut down the woods where it was endemic to build suburbs. The deer the ticks were living on lost their home, spread out and so did Lyme disease in the US. "Lyme disease brought to you by the american dream of suburbia." In the US it is mostly a northern thing for both, Lyme and FSME. PS. There are still doctors who don't believe in Lyme disease. That does not mean it does not exist, it just means those doctors don't keep up with edcuation after they graduated medical school.

So, well, as a German we do shower naked after bathing and sports in same sex showers starting as a kid, while it is also totally acceptable to keep the swimming suit/trousers on, too. In wellness areas such as Sauna/Spa unisex nude showering is also fairly common. Keep in mind the generally speaking Sauna-areas are considered "textile-free" areas, meaning you are not supposed to wear any dress. Obviously, for the time you are not sitting inside the sauna or showering you are perfectly fine to wrap yourself in a towel or wear a bathrobe, but trousers, bikini and stuff is a nono. Coming back to your example: No, that is not normal. When we are showering naked, you typically keep the focus on yourself and your body and showering. If you know the person next to you, you can obviously talk and if you are kids you can do some fun stuff, but it is NOT normal to stare at the person next to you, analyzing other people's bodies and even get vocal about it. Germany or not, I think this is not deemed "normal" anywhere on this planet =) I mean if she left it with a "you're looking great" or something and stopped right there without any further staring and stuff... ok... maybe, but the rest: Not really =D

12:33 Not Germany, but in Austria paper towels are still used quite a bit besides roll towels and blow dryers. Blow dryers in particular are said to be less hygienic (as in spewing bacteria).

We also have towel dispensers that work like cassettes. With 2 rolls, one contains several meters of towel and the other is empty. And every time someone pulls out the towel to dry their hands, something rolls off the full roll and then the used length rolls up onto the empty roll This means you always have a clean cotton towel to use and no paperwast Because when the dispenser roll is empty, the roll with the used towel simply goes into the wash

If you are 7km/h too fast in Switzerland in town, you hvae to pay 120 swiss francs, 100 swiss francs outside of the town/city and 60 swiss francs on the autobahn. Germany isn't strict, Switzerland is

My husband also received such a nice document after having passed his final exams of his apprenticeship as a typesetter. It is hanging on a wall in our livingroom.

Arachnologist/Entomologist here. Not ba doctor, but about your tick bite, the bull's eye does not always present even if yolu have been infected with Borrelia. But since you went to the doctor and he gave you antibiotics, there's probably not much more you could do at this point. If any issues should appear later, even many months, just in case remember that you had that itchy bite and tell the doc then. About risk zones concerning ticks in Germany, there are no "safe" zones any more concerning FSME. Winters became too mild for the ticks to die off, so there is no way of knowing how far they are spreading. Plus, a second species of the genus Dermacentor has been expanding its range widely. These can transmit several more potential germs. And with the occasional tropical tick in the mix it gets even more juicy. Thanks climate warming.

a paper towel dispenser is a lot more sanitary than a blow dryer for your hands. With the paper towel you know no one else has touched it. You wipe your hands with it and then dispose it together with the bacteria in the bin. With the blow dryer however it just dries your hands. It doesn't get rid of all the bacteria on your hands still. Not only that, the bacteria in the water gets stuck on the surface of the blow dryer and warm air is blown against it. Perfect environment for the bacteria to grow and multiply. Then everytime the blow dryer is used the bacteria gets flung around the room. You got yourself a bacteria dispenser.

We don't have the need to socialize at work. We have something called "free time" or "time off" (means: Time in which I am NOT working, sleeping or eating) which gives us the opportunity to meet, get to know and make friends with people of our choosing. (Weird, I know) - beware of some sarcasm!

Australia? 😂

Many dispensers are still paper. Some places have "infinite cloth towel Dispensers".It is a endless loop. You pull, dry and it sucks it into the returnslit.

18:39 : Australia?!?😂 Marking points: Some older ones are square stones in the ground or pedestrian path and have a cross ❌ engraved on top. Land surveyors use these for their work, for example when a new road is to be built. Greetings from northern germany ❤

Regarding the speed ticket. The 7km/h (over 50km/h limit) is already reduced by a 3km/h tolerance, so the actual speed was very likely 10km/h over the limit (so 60km/h in total). It is not THAT much more, but it does make it closer to the American range.

Costs for sending fines: if a fine is above a certain limit, then yes, they charge a processing fee of 28,50€. Also, if the fine is very low, is justified, but you appeal and lose (because it was justified in the first place), you will also be charged this processing fee. In Germany, they rarely pull over people. They only do that in case of gross violations. For simple speed violations, they use radar or laser, take a foto, and then send you a letter.

It is a Maltese Cross. Actually,it is Christian / catholic symbol. The Maltese sovereign church/ knight / hospital order (in year 1113 approved by the pope) provided knights for crusades, and it provided crusaders, refugees and locals with humanitarian/ medical support. The Maltese cross organization is still active and runs hospitals, elderly care homes, provides humanitarian support and possess monestaries

Another great week in ,Australia? 😂 I like both of your channels. Have a nice weekend

From the north of Germany here. When I went to The Cologne Carnival I had to pee on a bakery toilet, shortly after I went to the standing pee basins a girl in a mini skirt came in and used the one next to me. Woman's toilet was overrun with girls so had🎉 no problem with it😅. Pro Tipp if u really need t pee fast and all toilets are full as he'll (they alwayswill be) grab youre girl/boy and push him through the peps and cry "let me through he/she has to puke"! Worked every time 😂

I remember that as a kid whenever me and my family would be at like a waterpark, it‘s like once you finish changing into your swimming pants or bikini, you go through the showers of the place to enter the actual waterpark and those would be seperated between male and female showers but like a lot of times when i would walk through them as a kid with my dad it always felt a bit weird to be around naked dudes ranging from 18 to 70 years old but to be honest over time you start to like not care about it and it starts being just "fine" Also btw no as a kid you are not naked in there. Even as an adult you are not forced to undress in these showers. The only place i know where you "kind of" are forced to undress are saunas … at least it always seemed to me like as if you wouldn‘t be allowed to wear stuff in a sauna.

For the tick bite: If you have Ribwort plantain growing in your area, pick some leafs, chew them and put them on the bite.

The thing with the camera is you can point camera outside, but it must be manipulated that only you property gets filmed and the rest is not clearly seeable, then it would be allowed. ( I am from Germany)

@7:40 Yeah, but it says *"AFTER TOLERANCE REDUCTION".* So they measured them much higher.

In Germany, "speeding" is cheaper than in most other countries, but due to hidden cameras the likeliness of getting a ticket for minor violations is much higher.

When you speed in germany there is also a 10km/h tolerance. Even the "Blitzers" don't go off if you drive under 10 km/h over the speed limit past them. In the letter the 57 km/h is already after deduction of the tolerance.

0:50 This is a Golden Military Merit Cross from 1914, according to the embossed year. So this was during the German Empire, not during the Third Reich. As you can see, the crown is also embossed at the top. The "FF" probably means "Für Fürsorge" ("For Care") and qualifies as a 1st class merit.

About the ticks. It depends on how cold the winter was. This Winter was not very cold, means a lot of ticks survived.

It's 57 after redundance reduction donuts more than 57 but only.57 is counted.

I would be horrified, if someone came up to me in a shower to talk about my breasts, but I'm most Germans have no problem with that... There are very bold Germans, but also shy Germans, like any other country. But maybe the bold ones are more bold than in other countries 🤷‍♀️

I didn't check anything but a Klempner originally didn't do plumbing as we know it nowadays. They worked with metal and formed metal sheets. The name is supposed to come from the sound of hitting metal sheets with a hammer.

the speeding wasnt just 7 over, theres 7 tolerance that gets deducted first so they were going 14 to much so 64 in a 50 area

Ticks are one of the worst aspects of living on a farm in Germany. We find ticks on us regularly in the Summer, usually in the morning after they've been feeding on us all night. When I moved to Germany I gave up on the idea of sitting in the grass. When my sister visited us with her kids, they were not allowed to even walk on the grass. We are from a tick-free city in America so we're less casual about it, but I've certainly learned how not to remove a tick (scratching it).

If you go 10mph over the speed limit here in germany you are close to losing your license so 16kmh still is fine but 20 is critical

12:40 Sadly we do still use paper towels a lot. But at my university we have something really nice: A device that has a very, very long, rolled up towel inside. You pull on the towel until it locks in place, then you can dry your hands - and they actually will be dry in one go. After a view seconds the device draws the wet part towel and rolls it back up. I think this is the best option for a device to dry your hands. For me that is my preferred method for drying my hands in a public restroom But on the flip side those are pretty easy to break even in a rather civilized context. It probably would not be a great idea to install them at a train station or gas station.

In Germany there is a series on TV about a fire station called "feuer und Flamme" (fire and flame), which must have 100 episodes... One of them is interviewed in the vehicle hall while another colleague walks through the hall completely naked from the shower. The cameraman says we have to shoot that again, everyone laughs and that's it. I work at a fire station myself and it's completely normal to shower with your colleagues or superiors and you just talk like people talk. I'm even one of those who come to work 20 minutes early because I can shower for free. Why drive up my water costs when I can shower for free at work and then have a nice chat, which I wouldn't have in my shower. welcome to Germany ✌️

The letter is an apprenticeship certificate. Today it's rather called Gesellenbrief instead of Lehrbrief. It proves that you passed the exam for a certain job and can work in a company in that field. The next step up is the Meisterbrief (lit. master letter) which is required to run a business on your own and train apprentices.

My mom even had to pay a fee when someone else broke into her apartment (they came through the window), and the police had a locksmith forcefully open the door. She had to pay for the new lock they installed, but also a fee for the police coming to her apartment (she didn't even call the police herself, she was travelling when it happened). I find it ridiculous that the victim of a crime has to pay a fee. But yeah, I'm not surprised they add a fee to the fine for speeding.

The shower thing sounds more or less normal to me. People usually keep to themselves and at my new (regular, not just for athletes) gym, many will avoid eye contact like the plague (in general, I mean). But if you know someone, you can talk while showering and I wouldn't find it weird to have someone say "dude, you look huge" or sth. The breast comment I can't comment on. Haven't yet seen a pair in any public-ish shower I've been to, lol, so I don't know if that was weird. Edit: I've talked a lot more openly to the managers at my old and new firm but we're all the same age with the same hobbies etc. Basically friends (well, with some of them).

I‘m not 100% known with the Iron Cross as well but as far as i know … The Iron Cross is just an military ranking that goes back even to medieval times where knights would get these as well. During WW2 it was also used a lot by Hitler and given to a few soldiers which kind of "stained" it so that after the WW2 they had to change it? Or something like that at least i can‘t fully remember but i know that they changed it over time a few times but it still is a military ranking symbol.

Having multiple people of the same sex coming together in the shower after sports is very normal in Germany. I have at few occasions experienced mixed gender showers as well. After an event named tough mudder - it´s a shame they went bankrupt, it used to be one of my favorite annual events - we showered in an outdoor shower. They had to separate places for men and women, but the womens shower was overcrouded, so at any given time there were about 5-10 girls showering with the men. It was no problem for neither the men nor the women because everyone has been doing sports for the last 3-5 hours and the showers were icecold. So yeah, that is a thing in germany, too.

16:40 If it still itches there is a good chance the mandibles are still in ... no worry your body will either disolve and absorb or encapsule them. If it is inflammed and/or producing ichor go to the doc, it could be a bacteria infection.

In Australia a speeding fine under 10kph over the limit is $128, about $40 for victims of crime, about $10 for administration fees and 1 point on your licence

We do have paper towel dispensers, often without electricity. Mostly because it's cheapest, I assume. At least the paper is usually recycled.

18:03 "Ticks freakin' suck!" Well, that's what they're known for. 😅

"Great week Australia" hahaha. Joke at the end or got confused

Speeding ticket fines will vary depending on the circumstances. For example, speeding in a residential playzone or within the bounds of construction works on the Autobahn will cost you more, even for the same violation elsewhere, because of the exponentially higher danger to playing kids or other drivers.

@06:28 it's the additional adminstrations costs. Yes, within the city limits it's much more strict. 25.-€ ... that couldn't be much. If you are going much to fast, you could loose your liscence under certain circumstances.

12:55 at my place of work we do not have those soap disperns but the real old-school papertowel dispernsers which are unpowered and especially in the wee hours of mourning unfilled

The Cross is the "Mecklenburg-Schwerin Militär-Verdienstkreuz 2. Klasse 1914" (Mecklenburg-Schwerin Military-Service Cross 2. Class). It was donated by Grand Duke Großherzog Friedrich Franz IV of Mecklenburg. Unfortunately I don't know why somebody get this cross, but I think it was donated for the front soldiers of Mecklenburg at beginn of Word War I.

Yeah, some neighbours are really weird, and I wish there was more communication before they go straight to the landlord. I have insomnia sometimes so I end up doing chores at weird times at night. Once I locked myself out while bringing out the trash at 04:00(thats AM for the fellow americans), but luckily my flat door was still open, just the main building door snaped shut. So I ringed the doorbell of my floor neighbours ready to get some angry yells over the speaker before they let me in. But no they didnt respond. So I kept on ringing to show that its not a prank, like once every 20 seconds. Nothing happened for like 10 minutes. Then the landlord who lives a floor above us came out to his balcony and we had a brief conversatzion of 30 seconds which was maínly me apologizing 1000 times and he activated the buzzer to let me in. He was probably just too sleepy to be angry but from his tone I feel he also found it strange that my neighbours called him at 4AM instead just talking to me over the remote speaker.

Living pretty much down under within Germany - at least in relation to Hamburg or Berlin - I can report tick season is in full swing now (mid April). There's no day without me having to remove a tick from one of my cats. Often it's more than one - like two to five. In bad cases it can be more than twenty - not that surprising since there's a forrest area in my neighbourhood. It can start in February, late March until May or June is the main season. Then ants are getting active and they seem to eat ticks. And since they are many they're quite effective. (Still, there are no Kangaroos in Austria - at least not in Vorarlberg)

back when I was a kid and the GDR still existed we had those soap bar grinders in every train rest room. They usually smelled terrible (the soap, not the rest room)... Haven't seen them for ages though.

The administrative authority incurs costs as part of the fine proceedings, which are passed on to the traffic offender as fees and expenses. This is 5% of the fine but at least €25. (It is always cheaper to keep to the speed limit. 🤷‍♂️)

10:16 The camera is likely pointing a the owner's car in fron of his house. The parking space may still belong to his property, in which case the camera is probably ok. However, if the camera looks onto the public space or even onto neighboring properties, this is almost certainly illegal.

@05:20 : The markings a mission specific ranks. I've asked a police officer during a 2021 Covid demo in Berlin. Normally police officers have to wear a unique number on their back in a special mission (like at demonstrations). In Niedersachsen (federal state in the north) these numbers are associated with the union. Weired. I first didn't belive it, but could witness it with my own eyes last year in Braunschweig.

16:18 Ticks are really common in germany. You should Check your body everytime you go into a forest. Usually i get 2-3 Ticks on my body when im in the forest for like an hour or two. The most in spring but also in summer.

Ticks can transmit both the bacterial disease Borreliose / Lyme disease and the viral disease Frühsommer-Meningoenzephalitis (FSME) / tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). In advanced cases, Lyme disease can cause serious health problems if not treated in a timely manner. In severe cases, TBE can lead to inflammation of the brain (encephalitis) and spinal cord (meningitis), which can lead to permanent neurological damage or even death. You can get vaccinated against tick-borne encephalitis. The health insurance company covers the costs.

12:00 that was pretty normal on trains of the Deutsche Bahn some years ago.

That cross is called the Balkenkreuz. The Balkenkreuz, as a symbol, is mostly associated with the Bundeswehr, and is actually still in use to this day. However, it is not a nazi symbol, the Balkenkreuz predates the third Reich aswell as the Empire. Its use in the German army goes back all the way to the napoleonic wars, and its inspiration goes back several hundred years more to the Teutonic Order.

+1 for actually taking the time to research stuff.

Hi there, I like your reaction videos. In germany there are often gyms or saunas with open showers. but mixed saunas are common in some places too, like mixed saunas for example. But its true in germany we are very open about nudity in some places. specially in eastern germany. thats because the splitting of germany after WW2. The eastern germans of the (DDR German democrat Republik) has the "Frei Körper Kultur or FKK" means "Free Body Culture" on some beaches and campgrounds where people were naked on their holidays or vacations. The fee of the speeding ticket depends on the speed limit and the area of the control. 7 km/h in a city like in the letter i guess, costs more than 7km/h outside of a city on an country road or the autobahn which i guess would have no fee at all i guess or maybe just a warning. But 25€ for the costs of the procedence is the first time i saw that to be honest. The Camera is not allowed to record this way when there is public walkway or property of the neighbours on it. You are only allowed to record your own property. I guess he is maybe recording the entrance of the building but strange angle for that, or maybe he film his car parking space?! When you live in an house with more apartments in it, The Landlord is responsible that you can live peacefully in your home. If there are repeating things like intensive smells (tobacco, weed, garbage etc.) or noises like (loud music in the night, loud arguing neighbours, loud neighbours having bedroom fun) its an option to tell the landlord that you pay less rent if he didn´t take care about the problem. But the first attemp should be a talk with the neighbours first in my opinion.

The Cross you mean is the Iron Cross. Originally inspired by the Teutonic Order, this was a military award first established by King Frederick-William III of Prussia during the German War of Liberation in 1813. It's considered Germany's first fully egalitarian military award open to soldiers of all ranks and social classes. Iron Crosses are only awarded during major, peer-level conflicts and need to be newly established each time. Thus far, this was done in four different conflicts: The aforementioned War of Liberation, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, WW1 and WW2 - with the latter two of course having tainted its reputation quite a bit. Still, the German Military has not officially abolished it, still uses a stylized version of it as its Coat of Arms and as a roundel for both Aircraft and Ground Vehicles. Also, back when people who served in WW2 were still active, they were actually permitted to wear these medals on their uniforms.

That cross can also be a Malteser cross, which is a christian community.

I got my FSME (Frühsommermeningoenzephalitis) refresher shot last year. Luckily, you only need one every 5 years or so. 😅

When you get a speeding ticket, typically you first get an "Anhörung wegen einer Verkehrsordnungswidrigkeit + Verwarnungsgeldangebot". It is pretty much the same as in the video, But only the "Geldbuße" (no fee). When you pay you accepted the warning and you are done. If not they will investigate and you have to pay the fees for investigation.

8:00 Detected speed after tolerance deduction means "net" speed after deducting some error range (which would at this speed about 3 kph, so the detected total speed was about 60kph).

7:00 well, the main difference: those are speed cameras. In America a lot of speeding tickets are still handles by police cars, which will pull you over. Also 57 km/h measured, means that the drove 60km/h in reality, as the measurement tolerances are substracted from the measured speed. This makes sure, that nobody gets fined for a higher speed, than somebody actually has driven. Also if you look at the speedometer, you have an additional 2-3 km/h, as a speedometer isn't allowed to show more speed, than you are actually driving. oh 7km/h above the limit is about 4-5 mph over. However a lot of cars still go over the speed limit, as there are no further consequences. Also the fee and expenses are stay the same, regardless the high of the ticket. So if you have a fine of 400€ it epiöf still cost the 28.50€ for the letter 10:00 for the camera, you are only allowed to record your own property and have to make sure, you don't record anything of the sidewalk/road or your neighboring property

The iron cross is a military award and symbol that has been used long before the Nazis and is still in use today. It was not created by them, they just used it because it was custom.

The iron cross - shaped medal is not a version of the Iron Cross. Looks like the Military Merit Cross of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (one of the states of the German Empire).

6:00 + if you think german tickets are high, you should never come to Luxembourg. Not wearing a seatbelt: 145 Euro or more, handy at the wheel: 145 Euro, public littering (like chewing gum or a cigarette): 50 Euro. And many more. As I live at the border to Germany, I know many Germans (my father included) complaining how ridiculously higher these fee's are in the small country. (he's complaining about speeding fees specifically being a racket and harassment on a regular basis, including those committed in Germany. Just accept the limits... but he get's mad if I tell him that) I don't care. Just don't commit the infringements and you don't have to pay. Plus they have to "hurt" if they are supposed to teach a lesson. And speeding once more, there is a tolerance span (to consider the variation in the measuring tools) that is substracted from your speed. It's 3kmh under limits of 100kmh and 3% for limits over 100kmh.

2:20 "not the fanciest..." well, let´s look how fancy the people with fancy jobs are when their toilette/ heating/ air conditioning isn´t working 😂

Same sex group showers are normal here, yes, but i also would feel uncomfortable when someone would stare at me and give comments about my body, especially if i'd know this person. That's just rude, no matter where you are.

You have to mind also that car speed meters usually overestimate speed by a bit.

For the speed ticket... Usually, there is a speed limit inside cities of 50km/h. If your are catched by laser or picture, there is a tolerance that reduces your measured speed (3km/h for speed up to 100km/h, 3% above 100km/h). You have to pay for the rest. A tolerance must be substracted by law and its not mentioned here, so i dont think its a real ticket

7:51 regulations depends on each federal state, like in Bavaria if one is not least 10km|h faster it will be discarded.

Well, there are saunas and thermal baths, which do have mixed sex nudity, and yes, people run across colleagues, co-workers, supervisors etc. there. And yes, it's always somewhat weird.

4:55: For me that would be VERY WEIRD!!! 😂

The best soap in Germany is the magnetic soap. Sadly people don't seem to have them in modern homes.

We have them here in Norway too.....we call them Fagbrev or Svennebrev.

There are many paper dispensers around in germany... it is very common after all.

Since the Nazis were anti-Christian, the cross has no Nazi origin, but is a historic symbol, in this form used first by the Prussian kingdom during the Napoleonic wars as an order of merit, the Iron Cross, which later became the highest war-related medal in the Prussian-founded German Empire and was because of its historic relations then also used in WW II by the Nazis. It is based on the "Tatzenkreuz" or Cross pattée used by the order of the Knights Templar, in a slightly changed designs also by the Hanseatic League, by the Duchy of Mantua, by different abbeys, bishopries, cities and others. The one in the picture is surely older than the Nazi rule, at least if is of a similar age as the "Lehrbrief", which is a diploma for the apprenticeship, which made the recipient a bachelor (Geselle) of his trade.

The cross is just an iron cross originally from the prussian time. Its still in use by the german Bundeswehr so its not really looked at as nazi symbol although it was used by them. There is many different versions of it but the highest one would be the cross of honor for bravery which is comparable to the american medal of honor.

13:05 This sticker looks like a "magic the gathering" card :D

Speed limit fees: Those are processing fees, which vary depending how much work they have to put in (there's a list of what they can charge). I was once driving my mom's car, and got a ticket. Via the license plate, they figured out it's my mom's car, but it's obviously not my mom according to the photo. So they had to do extra work to figure out who the driver was, and this allowed them to charge a higher processing fee.

57 kph includes a 3 kph deduction for measurement tolerance (so the device actually measured probably 60 kph). To measure 60 kph the standard car speedometer would probably display 63-65 kph already. Car speedometers don't need to be exactly calibrated, so to be on the safe side, the usually display around 5% more than the acutal speed.

Plumbers can do everything, my father made plumber Ausbildung 1974😊

Today, being over 70, I might be a trifle discombobulated if another man came up to me in the gang shower and commented on my figure. Back at school, though, boys always compared and it was a big (or not so big) laugh.

Ticks are dangerous. My parents always serached me for ticks when we were in the woods. Lyme disease is the better thing you could get, Tick-borne encephalitis is way worse. Someone in my sports club had this. he had to learn to talk and walk again. He was sick for almost 2 or 3 years I think and not back to what he was before after this.

@0:45: the cross is called "Eisernes Kreuz" (iron cross). It is originally a prussian war medal and actually it's black, not yellow (couldn't find the meaning of the yellow cross). It was "invented" long before WWII, but was re issued in 1939, as the "Ritterkreuz des eisernen Kreuzes" (Ritter is a Knight), a Nazi war label. So originally it's not a Nazi label, but was obused by the Nazis and is therefore associated with Nazigermany (mostly due to the lack of knowledge).

Paper towels are more hygienic than the blow dryer. And how do you think the electricity needed for the blow dryer is more environmentally friendly than the use of lesser grade paper for paper towels?

uhm 7km over the speed limit of 50 km ... the 50 km speed limit will mostly happen in cities, towns villages and 3 km have already been deducted for 'tollerances' in the measurement. Thats 10 km over the limit. Its still a small fine as it comes with no mark up in Flensburg, an authority which tracks significant violations with a points system. If you earn yourself too many of them (8) you'll get stripped off your drivers license. Guy probably didn't pay the 30,00 € after receiving the ticket via a letter, so the cost for the court handling adds in well deserved. In Germany 50,000 to 60,000 people contract Lyme borreliosis every year and a further 150 to 200 tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). Vaccination against TBE is available.

The Iron Cross you're probably referring to is a more than 200 years old military mark of first the prussian and then the German forces, and it is still used to this day as the symbol of the Armed Forces of Germany. It is painted on all tanks, planes and other vehicles of the Bundeswehr. It's only a Nazi symbol in combination with the svastika.