Never been there, can't really comment. As long as it's not like the Germany that took part in the World Wars, I'm fine with it.
I don't have anything deep or enlightening to say, but your response made me grin with delight.SmilingWorlock said:SNIP
THE OPPOSITE is true. In German schools you get so many topics in all social / cultural related courses there is NO chance that you don´t know about the WW1 Nazies, the Holocaust and WW2, even if you opt out of school at the earliest possible chance.puffy786 said:I've talked to my German teacher once and he said that WW1 and WW2 is omitted in German schools. The wars is of coarse a uncomfortable topic to Germans.Buchholz101 said:You mean Germany? The country with zero-tolerance for drunk drivers, the country that teaches the hell out of the war that made them infamous instead of denying it ever occurred?
Love them Krauts.
Well you are right about the history stuff, but about the alcohol you are wrong.BloodRed Pixel said:THE OPPOSITE is true. In German schools you get so many topics in all social / cultural related courses there is NO chance that you don´t know about the WW1 Nazies, the Holocaust and WW2, even if you opt out of school at the earliest possible chance.puffy786 said:I've talked to my German teacher once and he said that WW1 and WW2 is omitted in German schools. The wars is of coarse a uncomfortable topic to Germans.Buchholz101 said:You mean Germany? The country with zero-tolerance for drunk drivers, the country that teaches the hell out of the war that made them infamous instead of denying it ever occurred?
Love them Krauts.
I HOPED there is zero tolerance for drink and drive.
Today you can have 4 promille of alcohol in your blood an get away.
It was in ex-DDR (GDR) eastern Germany where they had zero tolerance for alcohol.
wasn´t considering the novices and under 21s, ok. guess I am getting oldbakan said:Well you are right about the history stuff, but about the alcohol you are wrong.BloodRed Pixel said:THE OPPOSITE is true. In German schools you get so many topics in all social / cultural related courses there is NO chance that you don´t know about the WW1 Nazies, the Holocaust and WW2, even if you opt out of school at the earliest possible chance.puffy786 said:I've talked to my German teacher once and he said that WW1 and WW2 is omitted in German schools. The wars is of coarse a uncomfortable topic to Germans.Buchholz101 said:You mean Germany? The country with zero-tolerance for drunk drivers, the country that teaches the hell out of the war that made them infamous instead of denying it ever occurred?
Love them Krauts.
I HOPED there is zero tolerance for drink and drive.
Today you can have 4 promille of alcohol in your blood an get away.
It was in ex-DDR (GDR) eastern Germany where they had zero tolerance for alcohol.
For everyone under 21 and all novice drivers you have zero-tolerance - otherwise it's 0.5 per mill, but if there are deficits in your driving even less can be a misdemeanour.
Some northern european countries have 0.2
I never said that modern Germans don't know about the war. My teacher for last semester is about late 20s early 30s. I'm not sure how education in German schools about the war changed over the years. I'm not an expert and I was just quoting what my teacher says. I only had 1 year of German.BloodRed Pixel said:THE OPPOSITE is true. In German schools you get so many topics in all social / cultural related courses there is NO chance that you don´t know about the WW1 Nazies, the Holocaust and WW2, even if you opt out of school at the earliest possible chance.puffy786 said:I've talked to my German teacher once and he said that WW1 and WW2 is omitted in German schools. The wars is of coarse a uncomfortable topic to Germans.Buchholz101 said:You mean Germany? The country with zero-tolerance for drunk drivers, the country that teaches the hell out of the war that made them infamous instead of denying it ever occurred?
Love them Krauts.
I HOPED there is zero tolerance for drink and drive.
Today you can have 4 promille of alcohol in your blood an get away.
It was in ex-DDR (GDR) eastern Germany where they had zero tolerance for alcohol.