Documentation of German basic training is very difficult to find, but from what I have managed to find this is what was required for a good rating:
100m Run: 13.4 - 14.2 seconds
200m Run: 30 - 32 seconds
400m Run: 68 - 72 seconds
Long Jump: 4.15 - 4.75 meters
High Jump: 1.15 - 1.35 meters
Grenade Throw: 35 - 42 meters
Swim: 100 meters in under 2.4 minutes, and 300 meters in under 9 minutes
I'll do some better research and edit in my results when I'm through with classes today.
EDIT Alright, I managed to find a copy of a US Army document from 1942. Written by the War Department's Military Intelligence Service, this document was published in Septempber of 1942 and it is titled "German Military Training."
It's a PDF and will not let me copy/paste, but it details in the first few pages that the entire Nazi regime worked within the culture to create a society that already had training. At 10 boys would begin participating in programs through the Jung Volk (Young Folk) that taught many of the values and principles deemed important for future German soldiers, such as loyalty and strength. At age 14 they would then move to the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) were they would get a taste of the military. In addition to being taught a military mindset, students in the Hitler Jugend were taught military tactics and regularly took part in training missions and mock combat. At this point in the paper it has a few paragraphs from a pre-war American observer who was allowed to study the training of Hitler Jugend. The observer explains that a 16 old boy was able to command a force of 30 other teenagers in military like operations on par with an experienced American officer and this troop of boys between the ages of 14 and 16 practiced military precision that mirrors that of regular soldiers. There are several statistics given that state that over the course of one year, 6 million teenagers participated in sporting events, and that each year 135,000 youths were taught aviation, 295,000 youths were taught military vehicle operations and mechanics across 1,300 shops, 78,000 youths were taught naval operations each year, there were 30,000 outstanding marksman and the Hitler Yugend had its own rifle school and was regularly supplied with military grade firearms. In addition, there were 3,540 outdoor camps held each year in which youth would participate.
At this point it is very clear that by the time a man was even old enough to fight, he was already very experienced in orienteering, survival, military order, weapon use, and combat scenarios. It is no wonder then that Nazi Germany had one of the finest armies in human history.
At age 18 the Hitler Jugend would serve in the Arbeitsdienst (Labour Force) for 6 months. There they would learn agriculture, construction, or manufacturing. This was meant to teach them a trade, as well as reinforce discipline and free up other men for front line service. When World War II began almost all members of the Arbeitsdienst were brought into the army under various Baukompanien (these were military construction battalions). To quote page 9 of the document "When German youths, at 19, were inducted for military service, most of them had already had the equivalent of basic military training, were in excellent physical condition, and had been indoctrinated both with Nazi ideology and military attitudes... ...Furthermore, German boys had received good opportunity to practice and develop quality of leadership, and officer material was already clearly marked out by the time they reached military age."
Unfortunately I don't have time to paraphrase anything else, the document is pretty long and goes into a lot of detail about the SA, officer training, etc.
I read a book on the grossdeutchland division, which was an elite Wehrmacht division in the war. Obviously their training was harder than the average German, but they would train for 36 hrs straight and then 8 hrs off. They did this for I think 3 and a half months. The first day, they divided into teams of three and were forced to carry one in each team at a slow jog continuously for several kilometers. One person wanted to quit the training, so the cadre beat him. He still wanted to quit, so they shot him. I'm sorry I'm being rather general right now, as it's been 5 years since I read the book.
The book is called The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
Which soldier would be more physically fit, a german soldier or a american soldier?