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Why did Germany produce so many philosophers?

I haven't delved into philosophy much yet, but from my layman's view it appears as if Germany produce a massively disproportional amount of philosophers. Germany produced Weber, Kant, Hegel, Nitezsche, and Heidegger, and I'm sure quite a few more I don't know about. 

What was it about Germany that produced so many brilliant minds, especially in or near the twentieth century? Should we emulate what they did so well?

Also, I don't intend to be obtuse here, but does the quality that gave Germany so many intelligent thinkers also made Germany the only country that Hitler could have risen in? It seems astounding that a nation which consistently produces the most intelligent thinkers in the world is also one which succumbs to the greatest evil.
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Germany, ~~England~~Britain, and France - and to a lesser extent, Italy - were the three biggest economically developed language zones (Germany and Italy not being "countries" until late in the game) from the early modern period on. This meant they were able to afford to produce the most intellectuals, and to this day in most academic fields English, French, and German are the most useful European languages to read, and hence also to write in. 

With Germany specifically there's also the fact that the Prussian state was the first to introduce compulsory elementary schooling as well as the one to invent the modern research university, which inaugurated a form of patronage that allowed the existence of academic philosophers who only needed to justify themselves to other academic philosophers. This allowed philosophy to become much more abstract and, for the internal community of philosophers themselves, more prestigious and hence influential.