re how universal are phones these days i don t know much about phones in germany but this is what i know i bought a phone in the u s for my mother who lives in bratislava slovakia and it works just fine the problem is they don t have wall jacks like we do here there is a wire without any jack at the end sticking out of the wall so you need to connect the wires i m not sure if they have wall jacks in western europe they may hope this helps dagmar kniha carson u washington edu
