German Cultures and Traditions that Americans Use in the United States. Christmas and Easter are the most common holidays that we celebrate which come from Germany, such as the Christmas calendar which contains a candy every day until Christmas in December. It 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 comes. We also received Christmas trees from Germany. In Germany they decorate their trees on Christmas Eve with candy canes, popcorn and ornaments and sometimes they even use candles on the trees, but they don't practice that because the candles we have in America also have traditions. Christmas trees, but some decorate them earlier than Christmas Eve and we decorate them almost the same way. Gingerbread also came from Germany. They became popular after the Sinister Brothers used a gingerbread house in one of their dark Hansel Gretel fairy tales, so they became popular and families decorated them. Americans have taken up this tradition and during the Christmas holidays people decorate them and some even have gingerbread competitions to see who will make the best gingerbread house. Some Christmas songs originate from Germany, such as the old Christmas tree also known as o tannenbaum), it is an old song written in 1799. Santa Claus St. Nicholas also came from Germany The Reefs Christmas Carols are also part of Germany that we took and made. tradition. Easter also came from Germany, it is a pagan celebration of the spring equinox. The original celebration took place in Germany around March 21 each year. They celebrated it to honor this story of a bird that a pagan goddess had saved named Ostara. It was believed that she had saved this bird. was frozen by turning him 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 an 88 mm anti-aircraft artillery gun. Production began in August 1942, the tank weighed 55 tons and was too wide to be transported by train. If they took the train, the tracks would have to come off. Production stopped in 1944, 1,350 Tigers were manufactured. And there is only one Tiger active today. Today, the main German battle tank is the Leopard 2. The Leopard 2 debuted in 1970 and in 1972 a prototype was manufactured. The tank carries 42 rounds for the main gun, and the gun range is up to 2,000 m. There is a variant of Tank Variant 1 with improved armor. The tank is powered by a MB-837 Ka502 turbocharged diesel engine which gives it 1,500 horsepower. The Leopard 2 is similar to the British Chobham and M1 Abrams tank. This tank is still in production today.