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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.
Since folks have left me the easy ones, a fair number of things ending in "wurst," like Weißwurst.
Zyklon B, E605
Automatic Transmission
Flammable "Fertilizer."
TV and TV propaganda
The Haber process.
SAP (maudits allemands !)
The Zweihänder and Aldi
Ps: I DuckDuckGo’ed this
Gummy Bears.
Assault rifles
Nope. There where several "assault rifles" designed and built long before the StGew44 or the AK47 showed up.
The Italians even adopted one in the 1890s. But because Italian industry wasn't, let's just say not very capable at the time, only small numbers were produced. Even the Browning BAR, adopted in 1918, predates it and lasted far longer in service around the world.
If there is one thing the Germans did give to the world was the Reinheitsgebot in 1516. Because beer should only be made from water, barley, and hops. For that alone, they stand tallest in history.
Nowadays we invent things by describing the thing in Chatgibidy instead.
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.
Zyklon B?
Fanta?
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.