Originally Posted by jseal

Lakritze,

In keeping with the theme of the thread, Jesus Christ is reported (John 14:2) to have said “In my Father's house are many mansions/homes/rooms” depending upon the translation.

Germany was the birthplace of Bach, Beethoven, Karl Benz, Gottfried Daimler, Albrecht Dürer, Albert Einstein, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Johann Goethe, Steffi Graf, Günter Grass, Johannes Gutenberg, Franz Joseph Haydn, Werner Heisenberg, Heinrich Hertz, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Immanuel Kant, Johannes Kepler, Henry Kissinger, Gottfried Leibniz, Martin Luther, Ernst Mach, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Ohm, Johann Pachelbel, Wilhelm Röntgen, Friedrich Schiller, Albert Schweitzer, Mies van der Rohe, Richard Wagner, Carl Zeiss, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, among others.

The world would be a much poorer place indeed without the Germans.