No, what I am telling you is that perfectly legal knives get confiscated from anyone who is not a German.
Meanwhile anything longer than 12cm and criminal prosecution follows. German cops pray on Czechs who either cross the border while on treck trhough the German-Czech mountain ranges or who cycle from the Czech Republic down by the Danube - where the knives are legal in the Czech Republic and Austria, but not in between on the German soil.
The prosecutions end up usually with around ⏠2.000 fines for relatively small (but 12cm+) knives that any person who sleeps out in the open would carry with them if only to cut bread if not for any other purpose.
German cops do this intentionally because these tourists are easy targets - confused, pose no danger, completely cooperate, and then their statistics on âcatching illegal gunsâ look much better. Way easier job than going after Albanian drug traffickers armed with submachineguns.