Zyklon B?
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The Berlin Wall, putting beach towels on recliners at the crack of dawn, sauerkraut, lederhosen, frankfurters, doner kebabs, hamburgers, donuts, cheese, iron gates, macerated cherries, aardvarks, the car, the bicycle, diesel, the moon, beer, lager, tamagotchi, the letter ‘a’, the number 25, serrated saw blades, cantilever bridges, ice cream, hand lotion, galoshes, the ipod, bilateral symmetry, the dawn, goths, the parachute, that sizzling noise meat makes when you fry it, hats, gloves, left socks, altitudes over 1,773 feet, postmodernism, and geese.
The Zweihänder and Aldi
Ps: I DuckDuckGo’ed this
The Haber process.
The US Army. Given the history, you might expect it to based on either the French or British model, but no, they mostly took notes from Prussia.
You might also think it’s a very top-down authoritarian model for a military, but also no. That notion mostly comes from the legacy of Nazis. Both before and after, the German model of the Army is one of the least top-down authoritarian militaries.
TV and TV propaganda
The blitzkrieg.
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hamburger
Though named after Hamburg, it was an American invention.
The no card payment sign.
Printed circuit boards. Printing press. Graph theory. Theory of relativity. Homeopathy.
You could’ve really stopped at “relativity”.
Yes but I felt the need to include the evil/misguided minority of Germans, and I managed to do it without referencing certain 20th century events.
Printing press as well as the linotype.
If a German invented the Xerox they would’ve had the hat trick.
Gutenberg printing press
The Chinese invented movable type printing presses ~500 years before Gutenberg. The process was refined in Korea after that and made its way west. Gutenberg likely adapted and popularized the existing processes into the western industrialization movement.
That’s why I specified the Gutenberg printing press, which is distinct from previous ones. I did not say they invented printing…
The Disk of Phaistos was printed with stamps (movable type) between 1850 B.C. and 1600 B.C. according to Yves Duhoux. Predating the Chinese by millennia.
Touche
Don’t say that too loud, you shatter the western / white superiority complex. :<
Fanta?
pretzels
We invented the car
The car, the bicycle and Spaghetti icecream are the three most notable inventions from Mannheim Germany.
I’m from the US and never heard of spaghetti ice cream. I just googled it and it looks pretty delicious!
