Cultures and Traditions of Germany used by Americans in the United States Christmas and Easter are the most common holidays we celebrate that come from Germany, such as Christmas calendars that have a candy every day until When Christmas is here in December was first thought of in Germany around 1908 and today we buy these calendar treats for our children every year to count down when Christmas has arrived. We also got Christmas trees in Germany from Germany, there they decorate the trees on Christmas Eve with candy canes, string, popcorn and ornaments and sometimes they also use candles on the trees, but they don't practice it like the candles we also have in America. Christmas trees but some decorate them before Christmas Eve and we decorate them almost the same gingerbread also came from Germany they became popular after the gloomy brothers used a gingerbread house in one of their gloomy fairy tales Hansel Gretel so they became popular and families decorated them. Americans have picked up this tradition and during the Christmas holidays people decorate them and some even hold gingerbread competitions to see who can make the best gingerbread house. Some Christmas songs originate from Germany (like the old Christmas tree also known as or tannenbaum) is an old song written in 1799. Saint Nicholas also came from Germany Christmas cliffs Christmas carols are also part of Germany which we have taken and made tradition . Easter also came from Germany it is a pagan festival of the spring equinox the original celebration took place in Germany around March 21st each year they celebrated it to honor the story of a bird that a pagan goddess saved named Ostara it was believed to have saved this bird that was frozen by turning it into a rabbit ...... middle of paper ......d like a heavy tank and had a Maybach HL 210 p30 engine It had a power of 650 horsepower and had a cannon of 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery. Production began in August 1942, the tank weighed 55 tons and was too wide to be transported by train, if they went by train the tracks had to come off. Production stopped in 1944, 1,350 Tigers were produced and today there is only one Tiger in operation. Today the main German battle tank is the Leopard 2. The Leopard 2 began in 1970 and a prototype was made in 1972. The tank carries 42 rounds for the main gun and the gun range is up to 2,000 m. There is a variant of the Variant 1 tank that has improved armor. The tank is powered by an MB-837 Ka502 turbo diesel engine which provides the tank with 1,500 horsepower. The Leopard 2 is similar to the British chobham and is similar to the M1 Abrams tank. This tank is still in production today.