Germany - History

Okay I wanted to hide, where I am from, but I changed my mind, because I think, it's important to understand me better. I am from Germany! Uhh, big surprise.

Being from Germany requires some things, when you decide to go to a different country. You have to know a lot about history, in my opinion. Okay, maybe not a lot, but enough to speak quite confident about the German history during the 20th century. Maybe I just think so, because I'm interested in it, but it's for sure helpful. Every once in a while I am asked, if we talk about the 2nd world war at all. In the beginning I was really kind of shocked, I mean how can you not speak about it?

We talk about that and the DDR ( Deutsche Demokratische Republik = German Democratic Republic, for everyone, who's not that confident with history: Germany was splitted from 1949 to1989 in east and west, it was really to cross the border and many people died, when they tried, see also picture) for almost a whole school year in history class.

If I ask students here, what they know about Germany, everyone comes up with: Hitler, killing Jews, with luck sometimes Dirk Nowitzki. But capital is getting harder and that Germany was spilled is new for some kids in my age group. I don't expect them to know, really much about Germany, I mean I also know nearly nothing about the Civil War. But I think everyone should know the basic history of it's own country.

For me it's every time interesting again to talk to people about history, what they think about it, what I think. so if you want to know, if my opinion is, the way it is, then just go ahead and write me!