Health insurance. Little known fact but it was actually invented not just before Google but before the entire internet.
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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.
Just need to combine those windows with built-in bug nets and we're solid.
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Communism
Relatedly: the pension. (Before implementing the state pension, Bismarck probably saw nightmares that involved red and black banners.)
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!
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Modern physics.
Nuclear physics.
Socks in Sandals
The no card payment sign.
Gorilla Glass (the super strong glass used in most cell phone screens) was invented by East Germany after the war, before the wall fell.
Since folks have left me the easy ones, a fair number of things ending in "wurst," like Weißwurst.
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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.
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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.
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Zyklon B, E605
The Haber process.
TV and TV propaganda
SAP (maudits allemands !)
Flammable "Fertilizer."
Automatic Transmission
Gummy Bears.
The Zweihänder and Aldi
Ps: I DuckDuckGo’ed this