nawh! the scorpions were always playing american and british-inspired hard rock.
but the first couple of albums were quite good, especially since they contained either michael schenker or uli john roth on guitar; they were certainly more intricate and composed than their "rock you like a hurricane"/"wind of change", more visible phase.
about kraftwerk, yeah, they started on that wave but they completely renounced to the term and association with those bands a long time ago, and when people (at least the ones i know) talk about kraftwerk as kraut, they refer to the autobahn and beyond period ("the model" and that crap, making a point how superior the other bands were to kraftwerk).
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