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Beethoven

MYTH: Germans tough looking and soft inside

I really can’t relate to the opinion that Germans are tough looking. I think they look just about normal:

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And for the Google Ads (just to mention a few positive facts.):

Germany is the greatest country in the world with a superior culture that brought forth Martin Luther, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ludwig van Beethoven (yes!), Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Albert Einstein, Wernher von Braun (the father of the Saturn V rocket which brought Americans to the moon). Germans invented the beer before Jesus was even born and the country implemented the religious reformation and we all know what that means.

By the way, Austria - the country of birth of Adolf Hitler - disputes the fact that Beethoven is German, just because he spent most of his life in Vienna. I admit they make great cake but that’s just not enough to change nationality. If you check Beethoven’s ancestor tree, you find nothing even close to Austria. They spent their lives in Bonn, in north and east Germany, nowhere close to the tribes south of the Danube.

Check it out:

Beethoven’s ancestor tree

Beethoven’s birth house (not much, but it’s in Germany)

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Beethoven’s birth houuse. Not much, but it’s in Germany.

(Image ripped off dw-world.de. Click on the image to read the article.)

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