> Border inspection types are certainly inclined to ask that you power your devices if they are off - at least they often do with foreigners entering Germany.

> Border inspection types are certainly inclined to ask that you power your devices if they are off - at least they often do with foreigners entering Germany. The reason for that is that you could disguise a bomb as a laptop where the battery would be the explosive. That device would never been able to be powered on though, hence the check.