What do Germans eat with Bratwurst and beer?!

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Lots of things. Yes Sauerkraut. I am American with Bohemian and German ancestors and I like Sauerkraut. But other foods depending on time of year and region of Germany might include other types of pickled vegetables, like Beets. They would probably have mustard. Potatoes, roasted, boiled or mashed. Bread and butter. Believe it or not, baked beans. I used to eat at the Beer hall in Huntington Beach, Ca. When the Bratwurst came down the table ( you sit at long tables ) those were the foods that came with it. Especially the pickles and bread.

basically just a roll/bun, and mustard on the bratwurst. or a sliced bratwurst with ketchup and curry, it′s called "currywurst" in german and it usually comes along with french fries. but i personally would leave off the beer, since i′m no beer drinker at all (yes, there are indeed quite a number of germans who don′t drink beer lol).
oh yes, the old sauerkraut-cliché is something we will never get rid of, i′m afraid. this was actually common about 60 or 70 years ago, because it was cheap and people were poor that time, but today it′s not even popular in modern german cuisine. but of course, when you visit a german restaurant in the u.s. it′s full of all this cliché-food which a german who lives in germany would not even consider "german food". :D

i′m from germany

One of the best accompaniments is Kartoffelsalat, or potato salad. In the north of Germany it is bound together with mayonnaise. In the southern regions of Swabia and Bavaria and in Austria, Kartoffelsalat is mixed with hot broth, oil and vinegar. This style is often called "German potato salad" in the U.S. Another accompaniment is cooked red cabbage.

As for with the Brat itself, a Semmel (a close cousin to the Kaiser), and the classic mustard for brats is a brown German-style Düsseldorf, medium to dark in color and pungency, slightly sweet-sour and sometimes flavored with herbs. Dijon is also nice. Diced onions and lots of people like sauerkraut with their Brats.

I'm of German descent

Depends on ... we eat Bratwurst as finger food or snacks and as meat at a regular dinner.

At regular dinner we have boiled potatoes, Bratwurst, medium hot mustard (but in Bavaria also mild sweet), and vegies (sauerkraut, apple-red-cabbage (Apfelrotkohl, peas and cubed carots (Erbsen und Wurzeln), chard stems (Mangold-Stiele), beans and so on).

But we also eat them to roasted potatoes.

At a snack stand, it's usually just served with a roll and mustard, as said above. Or you can order it with fries, additionally.
For a barbecue, we usually eat grilled sausages with potato salad or noodle salad, or an ordinary mixed salad. Or also just with a roll.
Home made in the frying pan, there are endless possibilities. Everything mentioned above plus roasted potatoes, roasted noodles, rice..., well, just anything what comes to your mind. It's combinable with almost everything except sweet stuff. XD

Native German

@~αυтυмη~ LOL

wie du immer versuchst die Vorurteile den Leuten auszureden!..immer betonst du, dass natürlich nicht alle Deutsche so oder so sind! ^^ LOL (ich meins nich b?se, aber was an dir ist eigentlich deutsch?)

mit dem Sauerkraut t?uschst du dich übrigens. Sauerkraut ist immernoch sehr beliebt in Deutschland vor allem zu Schweinswürstchen.

LOL @ ~αυтυмη~, bussi

Saxons. Sorry i couldnt help myself, actually this comes from my actual German friend from Germany,
Sauerkraut and bratkartoffeln (erman fried potatos)

German Citizen

autumn is right. When i traveled through Germany, that is exactly how the local german kiosks served wurst. At sit down restaurants, a plated meal would include warm potato salad as well.

The usual is sauerkraut. (I'm German-American, and I hate the stuff.)