The Black Forest.
1st mental image of Germany for me: girls with puffy white shirts and plaid skirts holding large glasses of beer.
“Unfortunate pants” would actually be a completely appropriate meaning for Lederhosen.
Do you know who else considered Hitler and Germany inseparable?
National Lampoon’s European Vacation - German Festival:
Also, some of them are nude or topless beaches.
Biking in the Black Forest and Work.
I work for a German company. I’ve had the both the good and bad fortune of spending a considerable amount of time there.
Hitler doesn’t even crack the top 10 any more.
When you say German, the first thing that springs to my mind is, as I said before, my textbooks.
When you say Germans, the first thing that springs to my mind is Polite Racists!
Standing in Munich looking up the Glockenspiel and being awed by the architecture all over the place.
Nazis, shortly followed by the image of a Teutonic Knight, then a rather attractive fraulein in lederhosen holding a beer.
Lederhosen and Oktoberfest.
My husband is retired US Army, and we lived in Germany twice. Our son was born during the second tour.
So when you say, “Germany,” my first thought is of my son!
~VOW
I think of the friends I made while I was there, both Germans and American visitors like myself.
I also think of the language, which is the one I know best after English. Though I’m not wholly fluent, nor do I always understand 100% of what I hear or read, it now sounds and reads familiarly enough to me that it no longer seems wildly exotic or foreign.
So, “Not Hitler”, obviously.
We were on vacation there this summer, so I’m going to have to go with currywurst.
I think of beautiful landscapes.
I was in Germany (Bavaria) for an afternoon once. Gorgeous place.
Bonn ist 2000
Last time I was there was before the reunification.
Frauleins don’t wear lederhosen! Do you mean a dirndl?
