Yes, you are right but there were a lot of engineers and scientists that were rushed out of nazi Germany at wars end. The "father" of the USA space program Werner Von Braun was one of them. And yes he was a nazi. The victors looked the other way because there was too much "prestige" to be gained by employing them. sick world then, sick world now.
Yes, you are right but there were a lot of engineers and scientists that were rushed out of nazi Germany at wars end. The "father" of the USA space program Werner Von Braun was one of them. And yes he was a nazi. The victors looked the other way because there was too much "prestige" to be gained by employing them. sick world then, sick world now.
Also, many were left in place for the so called "stay-behind" organizations funded and supported by the OSS / CIA. (Operation Gladio, Allen Dulles, Wild Bill Donovan, etc.) We have some monuments in the US for some of them, including one in NJ for Mykola Lebed. The Ukraine never cleaned up the old Nazi problem there and now they have a fairly large "young Nazi" problem also (Azof Brigade, etc.). I get that the desire was to stave off / fight communism, but I think it should not have included letting many of the monsters involved in the Holocaust get away scott-free. But, Allen Dulles and his brother, John Foster Dulles, were said to be Nazi sympathizers. Companies important to the Nazi machine were customers of Sullivan and Cromwell. Including IG Farben.
Was it "prestige", or hubris? Hubris that they - WE - were gaining scientists and engineers working on state of the art instruments of death, torture, and destruction... and WE wanted that "knowledge" and "experience" to add to - and expand - our own... Damn - that sounds like a Borg ideal...
Yes, you are right but there were a lot of engineers and scientists that were rushed out of nazi Germany at wars end. The "father" of the USA space program Werner Von Braun was one of them. And yes he was a nazi. The victors looked the other way because there was too much "prestige" to be gained by employing them. sick world then, sick world now.
Also, many were left in place for the so called "stay-behind" organizations funded and supported by the OSS / CIA. (Operation Gladio, Allen Dulles, Wild Bill Donovan, etc.) We have some monuments in the US for some of them, including one in NJ for Mykola Lebed. The Ukraine never cleaned up the old Nazi problem there and now they have a fairly large "young Nazi" problem also (Azof Brigade, etc.). I get that the desire was to stave off / fight communism, but I think it should not have included letting many of the monsters involved in the Holocaust get away scott-free. But, Allen Dulles and his brother, John Foster Dulles, were said to be Nazi sympathizers. Companies important to the Nazi machine were customers of Sullivan and Cromwell. Including IG Farben.
Was it "prestige", or hubris? Hubris that they - WE - were gaining scientists and engineers working on state of the art instruments of death, torture, and destruction... and WE wanted that "knowledge" and "experience" to add to - and expand - our own... Damn - that sounds like a Borg ideal...