101 Facts about Germany: History - Culture Nature Curiosities

A country everyone thinks they already know. >101 facts. Each on a page of its own. Open it anywhere, in any order. Sorted into six chapters: - Geography & Nature - the waterfall with no road, the lake with no border, the sea that leaves twice a day - History & Archaeology - the oldest figures on earth, an empire with no capital, a note that opened the Wall - People, Language & Cities - seven protected languages, a country with no metropolis, 600,000 clubs - Inventions & Science - Röntgen without a patent, Meitner without a Nobel Prize, a computer in a living room - Food, Beer & Bread - 3,000 breads, 1,415 breweries, a purity law with no yeast - Economy, Records & Everyday Life - 70 percent with no speed limit, 98 percent of bottles returned, 130 orchestras The twelve years that overshadow everything are in here. Set down plainly, with verified numbers, across seven entries - and not as the only content of a country with two thousand years of history. Checked, not copied. Every figure was tested against an accessible source before it was written. Where sources disagree, the range stands. Where scholars disagree, the disagreement stands. And Germany's first junction-free express road was opened by Konrad Adenauer in August 1932 - six months later the new regime downgraded it to an ordinary highway. With a fact file, timeline, glossary, and index for looking things up. Useless knowledge can be many things. Wrong should not be one of them.