Why does Germany has this bad surrender reputation? I know they lost 2 world wars but doesn’t Germany have a history of awesome badass warriors? Remember the Teutonic knights and their awesome crusade stories? Remember how the Habsburgs and the Holy Roman Empire dominated Europe? Or how Prussia kicked 3 of Europe’s biggest empires asses at the same time? The Prussian army had one of the highest success rates in history. How about the “Iron and Blood” chancellor Bismarck, which is one of Europe’s greatest leaders since Napoleon? Hell, they were the ones who brought down the Roman Empire, something the Persian and Carthage empires never managed to do. The internet is littered with German surrender jokes, and Bundeswehr fail videos are very popular. Look at the comment section of the Berlin tattoo. This is very unfair. Germany had a reputation of being very brave warriors who defended their homeland from invaders. The German army in both world wars, despite the odds against them, fought very bravely and held out for a long time. Why does Germany have this “beer drinking surrender monkeys” reputation?