====== German Techwank ======

This refers to the [[alternate history:alternate history cliches|cliché]] that (mad) scientists of [[offtopic:Germany|German]] descent can invent just about //anything//. The origin of this cliché is probably the multitude of German scientists that immigrated to the [[offtopic:USA|US]] during or after WWII, such as Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, or to [[offtopic:Argentina]], like Kurt Tank. In fiction, the cliche is also ripe, as many mad scientists have a German accent. Another very prominent example is Dr. Strangelove ("Merkwürdigliebe") from Kubrick's //Dr. Strangelove - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb//.

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==== In AH.com Culture ====

On AH.com, humorously discussed examples of this phenomennon include the [[offtopic:running_jokes|CGI of the Luftwaffe]], and more recently, A.I.s in World War One (the latter being a reference to the game //Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri//, where the A.I. threw artillery at you in droves, but never actually attacked anything). As [[offtopic:thande|Thande]] had noted, the first idea would explain where the Nazi era Luftwaffe got the computers for their CGI from, since the Imperial German Reichswehr had apparently developed A.I.s 25 years earlier.

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==== In AH.com Fiction ====

The cliché was also lampooned in the //**[[stories:AH.com The Series]]**// episode  //[[stories:hair_today_gotterdammerung_tomorrow|Hair Today Götterdämmerung Tomorrow]]//, where [[stories:the_germans|The Germans]] simply reply "German Scientists?" upon the question of how they built their spaceship starting from 1940s technology.

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==== See Also ====

**[[offtopic:Wehraboo]]** - AH.com slang term for a person who is an //obsessive// fan of the notion that [[third reich|Nazi Germany]] had the best and brightest armed forces in the entire history of the universe. 

**[[pods:sealion|Operation Sealion]]** - Another AH cliché, with a basis in an implausible [[OTL]] plan of [[third reich|Nazi Germany]] for a naval invasion of [[offtopic:the United Kingdom]], which [[offtopic:n00bs|AH noobs]] commonly overrate to no end.  

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