Did The Nazis Invent The Bicycle Reflector?

[GiovanniLiCalsi]

I highly doubt the Nazis invented anything. Did the Nazis invent the Volkswagon? It's all in the wording. Invented under Nazis rule, inventions of the Nazi period etc..
Have you dated those reflectors?

Nazis invented the magnetic tape recorder, made for Hitler’s speeches. American military brought the technology to US manufacturing.
Also the Horten brothers flying wing aircraft.

 

[mr.cycleplane]

I always cringe when I hear the word Nazi! The actual word Nazi is a short abbreviation for the National Socialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei (NSDAP)-a political power/movement that was formed in1920 and came to full power in 1933-1945 in Germany under Hitler. The comedian Jerry Seinfeld used the term 'soup-nazi's' regularly in his sitcom and many stand up acts-this seemed tasteless(no pun here!). The Nazi's didn't invent anything-it was someone in Germany at the time that may have invented or improved on an idea. But to give credit to a political movement for inventing a reflector seems like a stretch to me.

 

[bikejunk]

Lea & Francis a British bicycle company had a reflector in the very early teens that they had a patent on

 

[Beach Bum III]

Are these reflectors laying on top of a dirty old pair of tighty whiteys ?!