They all drive B.M.Ws really fast.

They wear Lederhosen and eat a lot of bratwurst. They love to drink a lot. They act like Mike Myers during his Saturday Night Live skit Sprockets. "Would you like to pet my monkey?"

It is untrue to say that Americans as a group all hold certain stereotypes of Germans.

They are all stupid krauts. I beg to differ, as some Germans are great people

That you guys can't play football. (That is what my Engish friends tell me)

that they're kind-of unfeeling and cold, more abrupt, crass, and stand too close when they talk.

They're all racist Nazis. Now that's a very offensive one, which is not true.

All the women are hairy!....I've seen plenty of gorgeous "hairless" women on different websites and in person...some very hot women I might add!

The men are fat, and love beer, leather trousers, sauerkraut or bratwurst and beer, and have dodgy facial hair. The women are icy Teutonic beauties with blonde hair and blue eyes. Both sexes loathe inefficiency, love the Fatherland, have never been late for anything in their lives, and would secretly quite like to invade Europe, even if they have to do it via the EU.

They pinch all the sun loungers when your on holiday they put towels on them at 3.00 in the morning...at 3.15 in the morning my self and my sister promptly dumped them in the pool,did get a lounger the next morning lol sorry im not american just couldnt resist.

Stereotypes of Germans: Hyper-organized and efficient, a totally different sense of humor (they don't usually get jokes), somewhat arrogant and anti-American. The women are stereotyped as mean and agressive.

Nazis

Reading the sterotypes I have to my deep shame to confirm that they are relly nothing but the truth. Bias are based on real facts and facts youn can not deny. Germas are this like for real if they like it not and it is a clear confirmation of the fact how Germany and Germany are really regarded in foreign countries. And these bias and stereotypes will last for ever and can never be changed and so it is the best for the Germans if they accept these sterotypes and try to deal with them.

Hey, I was very shocked when I read this. There are some stereotypes that could be true, but these things are only stereotypes what is not meant to be true. Frederik said that they all were true, but in my mind, I really had to deny them. Some stereotypes are very interesting, such as that all of us haven't any sense of humour. I take the liberty of saying that this isn't true, I only think of Michael Mittermeier. But the towel-stereotype is true... For our last holiday, my father stand up every day in 7 o'clock to get a sunbed. It was very emberassing, but the first 3 days, we didn't get some of them because of other who also marked them with their towels... I couldn't understand that. And I can deny the "hairy-women-stereotype". Me and all of my friends giggled about a girl in a movie with lots of hairs below their armpits.

That they're all gap-toothed Nazi sympathizers with a penchant for memorable one-liners. Also something to do with eating shit.

Well, being German I only can agree that these stereotypes are nothing but really true and are based on facts. If the rest of the world wants to see Germans this like, I do not mind at all and probably each German gets taught already at school that the rest of the world is thinking this like. So it is absolutely a waste of time to discuss with foreigners about this topic and so I keep strictly off every foreigner who shows up in Germany. Like most Germans I never would admit that I speak or understand his language. Usually you get only offended by foreigners because most foreigners seem only come to Germany in order to offend the people here. Being asked in the street by a foreigner I never would give any answer or dare to tell him that I understand his language. Most Germans avoid therefore contact with foreigners because these bias and that extremely bad reputation of Germans is very well known by most Germans. Especially in English speaking countries that extreme bad reputation is very well known and theefore Germans will visit the UK or USA only if they have to. Usually it is no pleasure at all. Neither in Spain, Greece or Italy or Easten countries we have this problem. So keep as many bias as you like, I don't mind because I am used to them.

I made the experience that all these bias will stay as long as Germans will live in the world. It is useless and senseless to fight against bias and so I think like most Germans that we should not care about what other people think about us and we should deal with that. Anyway there other nations and other people in the world who think much better about us and so we should concentrate on these people and avoid contact to all other people and nations as much as possible. Most Germans don't care about the public opinion in the UK or America and most Germans would never would visit one of these hostile countries even if they get paid for it. I am only quite often in the UK because I have to. And a visit to the USA is absolutely out of question and I was refusing like most of my collegues going to the USA. One problem perhaps may come up to the Brits and Americans. Based on these informations how Americans and Brits are thinling about Germans in general, German policy has an extreme problem to explain to the German population that Germany should back and support the USA and the UK. A vast majority is clearly against that because nobody is willing that Germany would just support those countries where Germasn are regarded in such a bad way. This is a major reason why the German army does not assist the British and american troops in Afghanistan. Nobody would help just those who hate you. So the German policy has a huge problem with that as a clear result of that extremely bad reputation we have especially in these two countries.

The easiest way to stop these usual offences is to stop a conversation on the spot. I do it always this way and even very important conferences I let fall trough this way. If I hear such an offence I order each German member to stop on the spot to speak or understand any further English word and then we all stand up and leave. The Brits and Americans then can look for an interpreter which is always a huge problem for them because I know extremely few English speaking people who speak German. And all papers we accept from this moment only if they are in German. We can wait and usually it is the Brits or Americans who want something from us and not vice versa. It is always very amusing to see their disappointed faces and of course I never would accept an excuse from a Brit or American. This is the only language which these people understand. In the rest of the world I have found out that if you want to have a favour from somebody you can not offend and beat him and then expect that he will help you. Perhaps in America or the UK it is different and unusual being polite and friendly if you want to have done a favour. But as I can see, I am still learning a lot and that makes life so interesting.

They all wear Picklehaulben.

They're all into punk, apparently.

Experiences of Germans they made in America: http://www.gutefrage.net/frage/vorurteile-ueber-deutschland-und-deutsche Nothing but sad and what I read there, makes me nothing but speechless. Perhaps a mirror how Germans make their experiences with Americans when they dare to come over there. If Germans would behave this way to foreign visitors , I would be deeply ashamed.

http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,239538,00.html Another typical provocation as it is in Britain common.

Kids are open and kids have no bias. Therefore I love kids and I adore them because they are our future. What we invest in our kids will come back. And you have my extreme respect dearest dea-ex-machina that you demonstrate to the kids that life can be so various, so different and so pittoresque if we only accept differencies not as a kind of assaultz or attack but as a chance to open our minds. If we all would be the same in the world it would be rather boring. We have to accept the differencies and we have to see differencies as a chance. You seem to me extremely engaged and it is a good feeling for me how you are opening the eyes of children. You know we have about 6 Millions of foreigners in Germany and it made me proud that 2/3 of all foreigners in Germany feel at their home and they do not feel excluded. It is their country as well and we have foreigners from all cultures and from all nations. This makes me really proud that so many foreigners have the feeling to be at home in our country. And if foreigners have the feeling that they are welcome that makes me proud as well and so I forget about this feeling all the bias and pianful prejudices we have to stand in certain countries. By the way a few months ago I was meeting Prince Philipp and Prince Charles at Sandhurst and both talked to us Germans in German language as a certain kind of appreciation in a German without any foreign accent in such a perfect way as I never heard German by a foreigner and their German was that perfect and pure that I would have to admit that my German is not that pure and clean and all the Brits around us were nothing but looking strange. It was a pleasure for both of them and I felt it was an expression of utmost respect and appreciation. Everybody of us was deeply impressed. Prince Philip as well as Prince Charles know Germany extremely well and asking some of us they knew exactly where the came from. It was indeed a plasure altough I had the feeling that most British were not amused.

My husband is without: sense of humor romantic feelings patients tenderness gentleness

No sense of humour Incredibly efficient and good at things like engineering Serious Law-abiding Pinch all the sunloungers by getting up before dawn Don't know which of these you think are true or not. I'm British by the way :-)

I don't know any Germans from Germany, so therefore, I have no clue what stereotypes people have of them. Some of my ancestors were German and all I've heard is that they were hardworking people. That's about it. That would be a good stereotype to have.

After my opinion the bias and sterotypes in America about the Germans are much less profound as they are in the British society. For most Americans Germany is too far away and not that interesting because Americans have their own problems in their own country. And most Americans do not know too much about Germany and so I think if there are bias we should not overvalue them. The most Americans who ever made any experience with Germany were many GIs who were stationed in Germany and as far as I know most of them made quite positive experiences with Germany. Probably some Hollywood movies might throw a bad shade on Germany and Germans but I think even if there are bias or sterotypes in America there is anyway almost no hostility at all like in Britain. I would rather think that most Americans just know too little about Germany and so they have not a very clear opinion. They live on another continent and so they are focussed more on their problems. It would be quite interestin to know how many Americans ever met a German or how many Americans ever have been to Germany so that they could have their own opinion by their own experience.

That they are clean and tidy. (Bygone era...sorry) Who wouldn't hold on to a "Good" stereotype, even if it no longer applies?

Why collecting untrue sterotypes of Germans if Americans and British have plenty of true sterotypes. There are no nations in the world like the US and Britain which have such an immense collection of sterotypes of another country and their people. German bashing has been popular and a basic game of both societies since more than a hundred years.

Lederhosen, Sauerkraut, Beer and Oktoberfest. (That would be Bavarians, not Germans :-) )