Quote Originally Posted by thebigspendur View Post
Keep in mind different countries have wildly varying laws concerning what determines calling a product made in... In some cases you can take a product and manufacture it totally abroad, import it, warehouse it, and perform some perfunctory operation on it and you can call it made in... You have to check to know. As far as buying goes the watchphrase is "Buy the seller then the product".
The big loophole there is that you can be a whole lot safer importing the thing somewhere else besides Germany. The marking on the blade may well be baked-on epoxy, or whatever they are calling paint nowadays, and quite different if anybody is actually peddling the things in Germany.