"Thanks for the additional example of German technological perfidity. They of course stole the basics of jet engine from the British, who had patents on the technology about 6 years prior to the Germans having anything close to a woking prototype."
Wrong.
Men in both nations, as well as others, had been working on the concept of a turbine powered engine
since at least the early 1920s.
Griffith's work was largely a dead end.
Whittle's work showed a lot more promise, but in one of those coincidences in history, both he and von Ohain were working on the same concept at the same time without knowing of the other's work.
What's more important is that von Ohain and engineers at at least 4 German aircraft concerns passed Whittle's work and developed a working, stable, and airworthy prototype several years before Whittle. Even Whittle admitted that they had solved problems using solutions that he didn't try.
"Frankly, I wouldn't be at all suprised to learn that the Germans had stolen the idea for pickled cabbage (Sourkraut) from the Koreans (Kim Chee)."
Yow. And you think the Koreans were the first to pickle cabbage?
How about sausage?
One thing you'd do well to understand about technology of just about any type.
It is rarely, if ever, an Archimedia "Eureka" process.
One inventor's workable creation always owes great debts to developments and discoveries that have come before.
It's how an inventor/engineer, any inventor/engineer, comes to the process of making the final product viable that is the important concept.
The Haber-Bosch process, for instance.
Drew on chemistry and physics developments made by men in at least half a dozen nations, and put them together in a way that no one had before.