it certainley was a very productive time for innovation and ideas - was it a case of providing the education and the right envirnment or something else - but the Germans certainly came up with a lot of new ideas during these years - it would be interesting to see if anyone has listed or catalogued them
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a
person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as
possible" - Freeman Dyson