Munin
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Yes we did end up having much of that technology by inventing it ourselves wich took time, time in wich the scientists could have been inventing something else. And if they captured Nazi scientists then they could have had both inventions for the same amount of time. You see it is not about having the technology, because 50 years later we probably would have invented it ourselves anyway.
It is about the time we loose and Russia gained in advancing through technology. The time we gained by having Nazi rocket scientists is the reason why there was an american flag on the moon before there was a Russian flag, it would have been a russian flag first if it wasn't for that group of Nazi rocket scientists.
That is why these scientists were and are so significant to us:
AmericanHeritage.com / The Nazi Scientists of America
The Germans back then were in terms of technological advancement as much ahead of the rest of the world as the US is now.
"And they weren’t the first. The ink was barely dry on the surrender documents before a German missile expert was working 12-hour days under military guard in Washington, D.C. He was followed in the coming decades by as many as 1,600 experts in biological and chemical warfare, submarines, rockets, and aviation. These men and women were in essence spoils of war, taken by the victor to benefit from the vanquished foe’s history of scientific achievement. The majority of Nobel prizes up to 1939 had gone to Germans, and Hitler had been quick to exploit his talented countrymen. He conceived of a military-industrial complex while Eisenhower was still a lieutenant colonel, and by the war’s opening salvos, German ordnance was superior to the Allies’ almost across the board. Their tanks were more impenetrable, their planes flew faster, their bombs fell surer, and their guns shot farther. By the time Germany’s V1 and V2 rockets began raining down on London, Allied leaders realized that technical espionage might not only boost their own scientific capabilities but also help them predict where the Germans would strike next."
"The scientists drew little attention from the American press or public until October 4, 1957, when the Soviets launched Sputnik. Suddenly all eyes were on our rocket team. The assertion that “their Germans are better than our Germans” (variously attributed to Bob Hope, Lyndon Johnson, and myriad presidential advisers) summed up the public’s attitude at the beginning of the decade-long space race. “Our” Germans, led by Wernher von Braun, put a satellite into orbit three months later and of course ultimately triumphed with the moon landing in July 1969.They also made less famous but equally significant contributions to American jet technology, optics, and electronics."
Both Russia and the US took advantage of this, the whole technology race during the cold war was won by the US only thx to the german scientists. And the fact that the russians could keep up so well was thx to the german scientists that they captured. At the time WWII began they were hardly capable of making a plane, the same can be said about the US on other areas in science when you compared them with the Germans.
The reason why we are inventing the things we are inventing now is because of the technology we captured back then. The allies made a mistake by letting the russians capture so much German technology and scientists, because they are the reason why the US is now inventing stuff they would already have invented earlier because of more rapid technological development. As a result the US would be even more technological advanced now and the Russians would be even less technological advanced now. And the technology race during the cold war would have been won even much more significantly by the allies and earlier.
Even in battles we were victorious we can make mistakes, but I think this mistake has cost us dearly in our technological advancement and in the time the cold war lasted.
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