What do you think of when you think of Germany?
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Dumplings. They serve dumplings with EVERYTHING there.
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Women with hairy armpits. I know that is very prejudice, but that's honestly what comes to mind.
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Love to go there and see how beautiful it is, drink beer and eat schnitzel at an Octoberfest! YAH!
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The summer I spent there.
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The holocaust, Hitler and beer. And my friend and her husband who retired and moved back to their native homeland.
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nasty food
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Rivers, industry, wine, forests, WW2, gruffness.
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Besides the obvious negative stuff from the early and mid twentieth century, I think of Bach, Wagner, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Martin Niemoller, weinershnizels, sourkraut, my deceased German Shepherd named Buster, and Emil Brunner -- just for starters.
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WYD = World Youth Day. I was there 2005, with 2.5million people in Marenfield to see Pope Benedict the 16th
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I think of Tina and Astrid whom I spent 6 weeks with travelling atound Australia in a van called Wendy.
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The famous phrase "Ich bin ein Berliner" - I am a doughnut
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sausage and kraut.
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Nina Hagen...
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
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Hogan's Heroes..that was the very first thing to come to mind
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Nazi's. I know its unfair but my parents were both in WWII. Her as an Irish nurse in London during the blitz and him as an American serviceman who went all the way from Normandy into Germany. People always seem to think once the bodys are buried and the buildings rebuilt its all over but it's not.
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Beer drinking surrender monkies.
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I think of the trip we took there for a few weeks to visit hubby while he was at Ramstein near Landstuhl. One of my daughters and I went on the train and visited castles while he was working. Our German sucked, but everyone was very nice, and we were actually able to muddle through nicely. That daughter is now in her 3rd year of German in school (the trip got her hooked), and her class will be going on a trip there next summer.
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4 years of honors German in high shcool and I don't think I would survive a day in Germany! How pathetic!
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Porsche, There is no substitute! And this really cool girl I when out with.
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Only the world war stuff, its sad.
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Hitler.Whenever i think of german i remember the cruel rule of Hitler.
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NAZI's, and for some reason the spineless French, I guess the Nazi's and the French who planted trees in Paris so the Nazi's could march in the shade will be forever linked.
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Bavarian beer and bratwurst.
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World War 2
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A nation that will always be haunted by its dark past.
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Nürburgring, potato pancakes, and sauerkraut.
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The Holocaust, World War 2, Hitler, BMW's, good quality cameras.... and "gruff" accents (is gruff even a word?):P
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Michael Schumacher, Mercedes, BMW...
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Dirk Nowitzki = MVP!
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Clean, neat streets.
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Germs
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Bratwurst,Beer and there bewildering obsession with David Hasselhoff.
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Hehe, Beerfest :D
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Great Food, Great Beer, Great People !!!!!
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When I lived there. Hopefully I will get a job and get back over there.
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The Bavarian Alps, nice people, good beer and good food.
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Beautiful houses, towns, and ....sausages.
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Beer and Nazis
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that wooden shoe dance. I swear that was german, or me having braided pigtails. I cant do it, i just picture some huge woman named Helga dancing in those wood cloggs bustting out of some dress much to small for her size. Maybe im thinking more of Switzerland though. Its been a long day for me. haha
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I think of my personal hero. I think of Ludwig Van Beethoven, the man who saved my life with his music.
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The six years I lived there and how much I loved it and want to move back there,
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The Black Forest dwindling, great comfort food, beer!
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Sausages...
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hitler of course...he did leave a mark didnt he
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Clean streets everywhere, rolling green hills and dark beer.
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how boring it is and how rude the people are.
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Fine automobiles.
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I think about Nazis. I believe that is because I have the most knowledge about Germany from that time period. I mostly think about WWII, the horrors that went on there, and the poor civilians that had their country leveled. Germany makes me sad. I also really want to go there to have a new perspective on the country in modern times.
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I think of ruff :)
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The movie Beerfest.:-)
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Ich find es wirklich unfair, dass ständig alle an Hitler, den Holocaus und an Nazis denken, wen sie Deutschland hören. Was können die Menschen heute für das was ein Österreicher vor knapp 60 Jahren tat. :(
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Ich findes es wirklich unfair, dass (fast) alle an Hitler, den Holocaus und an Nazis denken, wenn sie Deutschland hören. Was können die Menschen heute für das, was ein Österreicher vor 60 Jahren tat? :(
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Kabberet
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hard working people
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Organization, Vision and Intellect.
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Feuer frei? FEUER FREI!
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BEER...Big foaming Mugs...and leiderhosen
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I think of happy memories... I visted a friend there two weeks ago and drank lots of gluhwein in the Christmas markets. :)
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Oktoberfest!
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@Valparaiso: Wir sind Bier drinkende Affen? WILLST DU MICH VERARSCHEN DU KLEINES ARSCHLACH VON AMERIKANISCHEN HINTLERWELTLER? Have you ever spend time in Germany? I didn't think so. You are yust another american who shout be killed at D-day
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Have you ever spend time in Germany? No, I don't think so. You are yust another American, who have never left his country ever. ________________________________________________________ Für den Vater uns' Vaterland
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I was an exchange student there. What I saw was a wonderfully warm people who when they loosen up, as they stand off a bit, make friends for life. An intense and rightful pride in their history....world war 1 and 2 excluded. They are a precise people with intense attention to detail. They have a deep sense of community to their local area. A love of their family and friends. Loyaly and honesty as a rule are traits that the German admires in his friends and by and large practice it as well. They are great team players, which unfortunately was a trait manipulated to Hitler's advantage. They are also a people who are deeply aware of their nation's recent tragic past.
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When I was there in the US Army.
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Some things hurt but I think the germasn have to deal with it. But I think other nations will have to deal with things which happened a few years or a few months ago and some things still are going on and thee things do not differ very much from all kinds of cruelties which happened in Germany and which are now history. It is not up to the Germans accusing others. How other nations are dealing with their history and presence is up to them. But almost 95 % of the people who live actually in Germany were not even born when these things happened and for what and why do you want to blame these people for things which happened at a time where they were not even born? If it gives a good feeling to all those who like blaming, I can deal with that. If it is just or unjust the answer all those may give to themselves. Perhaps some of these blaming people have a short look at their own countries and see what heir own contry is doing actually. For me it is important being aware what happened so that it never can be repeated again.
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BMW :-)
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Nazis
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A holiday I had in Berlin, good engineering & the FKK movement.
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