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Given the passion of the French and Italians for Bicycling, the Germans may have focused on the automotive market, not that Italians and the Brits didn't. Also, the industrial part of pre-war Germany was known as the DDR. The Allies pretty much destroyed the industrial capacity of Germany after the war. The French totally dismantled the Mauser factory in Obendorf taking all the machinery and the historical collection of Mauser rifles while barely leaving a footprint of what was there.
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