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cetacretin t1_j1y8c12 wrote

TIL that in 1864, a man of Jewish descent named Siegfried Marcus invented the first automobile propelled by a gas engine. The Nazis tried to erase this fact from history and credited Carl Benz instead.

^ I was wondering why his name would be scrubbed by nazis unless he was Jewish, and turns out, yep that's exactly why.

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