Good point on von Braun, he and his team of German scientists were all relocated to Huntsville AL to work on the space program after WWI, so that was the beginning of the US Space program. Plus the jet planes found developed by the Germans and were discovered near the end of WWII by the Allies. All significant technological leaps by a brilliant group of German engineers ( I am also part German, so I a safe in my comments).

But the US was first on the moon (now the Russians and Chinese have also landed craft), we had Edison and Ford and may other brilliant engineers and technical wizards, so I do think the marketing of this German engineering is overblown a bit and we all buy into it. There is a bent towards complexity that can be the undoing, and the more complex, the more likely to fail. That was my point