Why did Willy Messerschmitt refuse to cooperate with the Americans after the war?

[Quentin111]

The designer himself, unlike many of his colleagues, did not want to cooperate with the Americans. After serving two years in prison on charges of using prisoners in concentration camps at his plants, Willy Messerschmitt went to Spain, to Franco, who did not forget the services rendered to him in 1936.
After the war, Willy Messerschmitt lost not only the right to design aircraft, but also his main aircraft factory in Augsburg. Meanwhile, the Messerschmitt AG enterprises were located throughout Germany. The need for combat aircraft disappeared, and the workers of the Messerschmitt factories retrained to produce three-wheeled scooters and sewing machines. Willy Messerschmitt himself continued to work in his specialty, having developed several training and supersonic aircraft for Spain and Egypt. However, none of them could even remotely approach the value that the Me-109 had. The Messerschmitt era ended, and in post-war Germany, his talent remained unclaimed.

So, why did Willy Messerschmitt refuse to cooperate with the Americans after the war?
He could develop his talent as an aircraft designer by creating American aircraft for the USAF.

 

[whitehall]

Who knows? It seems like a personal decision but other Nazi criminals "cooperated" and launched us into space. On the other side of the world it seems that Japanese war criminals re-tooled and sold us a fleet of cheap cars.

 

[xyz]

I wouldn't call those scooters (apparently some people do), and they had a 4 wheel version as well.



4 wheeler: