Germany has a good manufacturing ability; they produce iron and steel, automobiles and trucks, locomotives and ships, cement, clothing, electronics, processed foods, beer, metal, leathergoods, scientific instruments, machinery, chemicals, fertilizers, drugs, plastic toys, wood pulp, and paper. Germany's principal products are agriculture, sheep, hogs, poultry, dairy products, potatoes, barley oats, rye, sugar beets, wheats, apples, and grapes for whine making. Germany mines coal, iron, ore, lead, petroleum, rock salt, zinc, copper, tin, uranium, and potash with great success.
Germany has many varied communication sources; they have four-hundred daily newspapers, and twelve-thousand five hundred different magazines are published there. Most German homes have T.V's, radios, and computers. All postal, telegraph, and telephone systems are owned by the German …show more content…
Every child between the ages of six and fourteen must attend school. All children spend four years in primary school (Grundschule), followed by five years at secondary school (Gymnasium). Students who finish secondary school usually become apprentices for three years, so they can learn a trade. There are one-hundred ninety five universities, and other institutions of higher learning in Germany, as well as, more than twenty five art and music academies. The 2003 literary rate in Germany was 99%; therefore, proving a highly successful educational