Walking around in general public in only Speedos.
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the use of towels as a territorial marker
They draped one over the back of Poland that time.
The automobile - pronounce it out loud, you'll say it something like "ow-toe moh-beel", i.e. in a German accent. Because Germans invented cars.
The assault rifle. They invented the concept, a handful of prototypes without the relevant doctrine (or for the 1890s one, even a detachable magazine) is irrelevant. Fight me, @bluewing.
I think the otto & diesel cycles are a better claim than the automobile, given there are like 100 different competing "first automobiles" to chose from
The Wankel engine is also a German invention. Though you could argue it's an improved Otto cycle. Also the inventor is problematic to say the least.
Hitler
Rage
Poodles
They invented Germany, that was a pretty big deal
Meh. Strongly derivative work, and they kept reinventing the wheel.
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The hamburger, from the city of Hamburg.
And German chocolate cake from Deutschschokoladenkuchen
Fun fact: German Chocolate Cake is actually from Texas. Either the cocoa company or the baker (I can't remember which) was named "German" and I think the original name was "German's chocolate cake"
Correct, the credit for that goes to Texas – the use of Coconut and Pecans should have given it away, those were very ingredients rare in Germany (still kinda are to this day).
The first known instance of this recipe comes from a lady from Dallas, who named it after the brand of chocolate she was using to make it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_chocolate_cake
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Name something the Germans didn't invent.
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concentration camps
But they were the first to have a bakery attached.
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The bicycle
The car
The computer (arguably, with the Zuse Z3)
Spoiler: I'm German.
Not the computer, but the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer (which would be a stage in computer hardware.)
It would be Babbage's machine as mechanical computers precede digital ones and only if we only allow nonspecific turing complete machines.
It was the first programmable, fully automatic, digital, turing-complete computer (although they only found out the last part after Zuse died).
So I'd argue, it was the first computer in the sense we understand and use the word today.
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Schadenfreude. I mean they probably didn't invent the feeling but I can give them credit for it along with the word.
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Everyone knows they invented the Haber-Bosch process. Pretty important shit.
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Health insurance. Little known fact but it was actually invented not just before Google but before the entire internet.
Otto von Bismarck, 1883
Hard to say. There are soo many Germans, who knows what they’ve googled!
Those cool windows that Americans mistake for broken. I'm American and I want those windows... also a bidet.
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