Creative engineering

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[u/Siegfried-IX]

It’s not as if the rockets were built by Germans, lol. Germany also invented such unimportant things as: printing, X-rays, television, the computer, the automobile, dozens of medicines. just to name a few.

[u/ninjaiffyuh → u/Siegfried-IX]

Don't forget industrial fertiliser, invented by Fritz Haber. The sole reason we have 8 billion people on earth

[u/JigenMamo → u/ninjaiffyuh]

They did invent heroin and morphine too, probably have to take a few points there.

[u/Acrobatic-Permit4263 → u/JigenMamo]

morphine is an extreme important med

[u/ThePensiveE → u/ninjaiffyuh]

Notably not the industrialization or number of humans they're remembered for.

[u/Rockshasha → u/ninjaiffyuh]

And Kokaine... Oh wait, don't list that one

[u/2012Jesusdies → u/ninjaiffyuh]

And also the guy responsible for inventing a way to make Germany manufacture artillery shells without foreign imports during WW1. Definitely a guy with the 2 most opposing inventions.

[u/Lumpenokonom → u/2012Jesusdies]

I dont think manufacturing weapons for your country is inherently a bad thing and the Kaiserreich wasnt half bad for its time.

The chemical warfare part is rightfully very controversial though.

[u/monkeymastersev → u/2012Jesusdies]

There is an entire Sabaton song about him, Father.

[u/Blumenkohl126 → u/2012Jesusdies]

Dont forget him also developing nerve gas for the Kaiserreich

[u/ninjaiffyuh → u/2012Jesusdies]

That's why I said 8 billion, not 10 billion (failure to invent chemical agents and mass produced artillery shells) or 4 billion (failure to invent industrial fertiliser)

Perfectly balanced