First thing that comes to mind when you think of Germany

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Steffi Graf

Falco

Mmmm, the Land of Chocolate.

Albert Einstein

Frankenstein's monster

Sausages

Oktoberfest

Beer

Those beer mugs with the lids on them to keep the bugs out, or something.

Volkswagen Beetle

Saying "gesundheit", meaning "health". when someone sneezes. Where I live though, most people just say "bless you", and would probably look at you funny if you said gesundheit.

"Dumkopf", a word I have often heard German characters in TV shows say to someone they perceive as stupid. That's why the word "dumb", which used to only mean "mute", now also means stupid, and most people don't like to be called it.

How everything that even looks like Nazi propaganda is banned. The whole incident in WWII is really an old shame to most Germans, and they don't want anything like this to happen again, ever.

For me too I love Kraftwerk.

Honestly? WW2.

followed by

VW Beetle
Siemens phones

then finally: being too preoccupied with work

some other things would be sausages and beer

the Berlin Wall

BRD and DDR

Pioneers of electronic music.

Fun, fun, fun, on zee autobahn.....

Trance ...jour up....express....

Vee are zee RObots....

BMW and engineering in general. Some say BMW stands for Brings Mechanics Work so maybe not the best engineering but I don't care I like them. I had a friend whose grandfather was in the Nazi army. Him and Grandma moved after the war. She was mad because my friend could only speak a little German. He has lost his culture. Besides him the only people I've known who like Germany are sadly those types who want to glorify that time but who also don't really understand what the country really is. It's MUCH more science and mechanics then one war.

It's actually: Wir fahren, fahren, fahren, auf der Autobahn.

Which translates to: We are driving, driving, driving, on the highway.

But it would be fun driving on the Autobahn.

Maybe....but it's not fun riding in a car on the Autobahn going 200 km/h in a snowstorm!!

Innovation

efficiency, and the ultimate automobiles and roads.

Well-built, well-heated housing for reasonable rents.
People being direct in their communication.
The possibility of having intellectual conversations, and not just with university-educated folk either.

Amazing candy

World War 2 and, well, holocaust.

Where my mom was stationed before the Gulf War.