Yeah they did cynically extract some nazis with valuable scientific knowledge, but they didn’t make any of those war criminals heads of government agencies like Werner Von Braun and NASA
The massive contrast in the political influence of those Nazis had, and that people like Von Braun were rehabilitated in the domestic public eye, should obviate explaining the difference between the two programs
Regardless is that what you think they meant by ‘exliling the nazis’?
i get what you’re going for but the USSR absolutely did have their own operation paperclip
I would argue there is a slight difference between being officially hired for your nazi mind and being forced at gun point to produce rockets
yeah there is, though they should have shot them after imo
Yeah they did cynically extract some nazis with valuable scientific knowledge, but they didn’t make any of those war criminals heads of government agencies like Werner Von Braun and NASA
The massive contrast in the political influence of those Nazis had, and that people like Von Braun were rehabilitated in the domestic public eye, should obviate explaining the difference between the two programs
Regardless is that what you think they meant by ‘exliling the nazis’?
When the Allies reclaimed Nordhausen it was the anticommunists, not the Soviets, who ended up with the larger share of the scientific materials.
The remaining Axis scientists whom the Soviets captured still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.
Finally, three anticommunist rocket experts confirmed that by 1952 the U.S.S.R. had sent most of these Axis scientists back home, and that the Soviets (obviously) made major strides on their own. (One cannot say the same for Imperial America.)
yes, i am obviously aware
It’s a free footnote.
fair enough, sorry i’m a little cranky today