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During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. Combined with Germany's generations-old reputation for excellence in science and engineering, these advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming 'wonder-weapons' that would turn the war decisively in the Axis favor. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize 'intellectual reparations' from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigators recruited from industry, military branches, and intelligence agencies invaded Germany's factories and research institutions. They seized or copied all kinds of documents, from patent applications to factory production data to science journals. They questioned, hired, and sometimes even kidnapp

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Author

Douglas M ; O'Reagan

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421428871

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Technology, Science, History