Who could deny this statement? Its pretty much self evident. It is about as self evident as the fact that Americans are idiots and morons. They have done so many things for the world Germany and although people want to get all over them for WW2 that was but a small part of Germany's history. There have been so many geniuses in Germany's history it is virtually impossible to count them all. Starting from the 14th century onwards Germans was the center and heart of the world when it came to ingenuity and originality. Meister Eckhart, Albert the Great, Grimms Tales, Gutenberg's Printing Press, and Martin Luther. Later on in the 17th century after the political and social situation settled down in Germany after the reformation and 30 year's War Germany's intellectual tradition exploded into a brilliant array of the most brilliant minds known to mankind since the Ancient Greeks. They produced some of the greatest philosophers, mathematicians, artists, musicians, physicists, chemists, scientists, engineers, inventors, psychologists, and poets from the time of the early 18th century to the middle of the 20th century. Overall who can compare to names such as Goethe, Gauss, Beethoven, Kant, Wagner, Winklemann, Heisenberg, Herder, Benz, Liebig, Copernicus, Hegel, Schiller, Jung, and Einstein