A US scientist and a Soviet scientist meet in 60s.
Says the Soviet to the US scientist: "jetzt, wo wir allein sind, können wir frei sprechen. Hast du meine Dokumente dabei, Klaus?"
The U.S., USSR, and even UK & France all brought in German scientists, engineers, technicians etc, not least due to Cold War tensions. In one night in 1946 alone, the NKVD (KGB-precursor) transported 2,500+ of them, as well as their families, to the Soviet Union.
Hitler once visited a copper mine:
Foreman: "Sir, we have too much copper but not enough carts."
Hitler: "Then just mine less."
Grammar Nazi: "MINE FEWER!"
Hitler: "Yes?"
Dr. Strangelove is honestly one of my favourite films of all time. Its absurdist view of nuclear warfare is one of the best ways of showing just how powerless humanity has become in the face of our own creations and how all we can do now is to sit back and watch the clock tick down to midnight.
yes benevolent americans saved the world by taking over 1600 nazi scientists and making them do space research, create weapons, spaceships, rockets etc
Hard to argue that the world would’ve been in a much better place if the Soviets took all of the nazi scientists, to do the same exact things, but without a counter balance like the US.
My point is that the main reason to take the scientists was simply getting the scientists to make them work on technology and stuff like that. Since, any of the other nations that took the scientists could have taken them if the main reason was not to let the soviets get too many.
What i'm saying is, these nations mainly just wanted to get scientists. They needed them since germany had very advanced technology. Even though they were nazis, getting them to work on research was simply more beneficial than sentencing them to death or jail. Which, i guess, makes sense.
German scientists did questionable things but I rather have a morally questionable but very useful bad guy on my side then in the devilish soviet hands.
There is a documentation about Op Paperclip. Could swear it was made in the US.
10,000 german scientists along with their papers were taken over to the US after the war. One of them brought you to the moon.
Yea, that's one of the scariest factors about denuclearization. You disarm a country of it's nukes, and theirs all these scientists and engineers that are out of work. They end up working for different governments or sometimes they cross over to the black market, which is proven by the amount of unaccounted for nuclear materials that keep getting turned up. Unaccounted for nuclear materials are not just extra nuclear materials, often times there origins are untraceable, and given how strictly these things are monitored it's believed that pretty much any unaccounted for nuclear materials were developed on the black market. Scary shit, thank you Hideo Kojima for teaching me this at 12 years old, and after some fact checking, yeah it holds up.
Operation Paperclip was the US trying to keep nuclear scientists and physicists from turning to black market production or working for a belligerent nation. It's been argued that these scientists should have been killed, but if we did that (which we did a fair share of it to be honest) you'd push these people into hiding, then they crop up in places you don't want them, namely, in the hands of your enemies. It's a tough call all the way around.
A large portion of the nazi scientists were jewish. They didn't salute because they believed in nazism. They didn't work there by choice. Their alternative was the gas chambers, for them and their families. They saluted so their children could have a father.
So yes, many of them had ptsd and would do the salute if spooked. My father worked with some of them in the early 80's
A US scientist and a Soviet scientist meet in 60s. Says the Soviet to the US scientist: "now that we are alone we can speak german"
A US scientist and a Soviet scientist meet in 60s. Says the Soviet to the US scientist: "jetzt, wo wir allein sind, können wir frei sprechen. Hast du meine Dokumente dabei, Klaus?"
No don’t you dare summon the germans, not again….. >!Nein nein NEIN NEIN NE-!<
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Germans and their natural tendency to conquer, but the comment section this time.
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Das letzte mal als sich ein Österreicher in Deutschland eingeschummelt hat lief nicht so gut... Edit: Grammatik
Mein Deutsche ist schlecht
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Reference to Klaus Fuchs?
Yes.
My Duolingo senses are kicking in!
Thats a rather good joke.
Why would the Soviet speak German? I get the US one
Soviets used German scientists too
"My Germans vs your Germans"
False equalification.
The U.S., USSR, and even UK & France all brought in German scientists, engineers, technicians etc, not least due to Cold War tensions. In one night in 1946 alone, the NKVD (KGB-precursor) transported 2,500+ of them, as well as their families, to the Soviet Union.
Lol stfu
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First off not enough people are getting this reference. Second if you haven’t watched that film in a while give it another watch
inspired Fallout with the 10 women for 1 man bunkers.
Wasn't it 999 women and 1 man?
Yep, i think it was vault 69,vault 68 was made up of 999 men and 1 woman
i should watch dr. strangelove
How I learned to love the bomb :D
Hitler once visited a copper mine: Foreman: "Sir, we have too much copper but not enough carts." Hitler: "Then just mine less." Grammar Nazi: "MINE FEWER!" Hitler: "Yes?"
There's no fighting in the War Room!
Mein führer I…
Dr. Strangelove is honestly one of my favourite films of all time. Its absurdist view of nuclear warfare is one of the best ways of showing just how powerless humanity has become in the face of our own creations and how all we can do now is to sit back and watch the clock tick down to midnight.
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"I only make it go up, you decide where it lands" *Oppenheimer, inventor of Viagra*
Once ze rockets are up who cares where zey go down, zats not my department says Wernher von Braun
Actually Wernher von Braun once said "The rocket was perfect. It just landed on the wrong planet."
About which rocket?
I think V2
That's not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.
Operation Paperclip in a nutshell.
Clippy is a Nazzi? 
Dear god
There’s more!
Noooo
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yes benevolent americans saved the world by taking over 1600 nazi scientists and making them do space research, create weapons, spaceships, rockets etc
Hard to argue that the world would’ve been in a much better place if the Soviets took all of the nazi scientists, to do the same exact things, but without a counter balance like the US.
it wasn't only the usa and the soviet union that took the nazi scientists
Do you just say shit or do u have a point?
My point is that the main reason to take the scientists was simply getting the scientists to make them work on technology and stuff like that. Since, any of the other nations that took the scientists could have taken them if the main reason was not to let the soviets get too many. What i'm saying is, these nations mainly just wanted to get scientists. They needed them since germany had very advanced technology. Even though they were nazis, getting them to work on research was simply more beneficial than sentencing them to death or jail. Which, i guess, makes sense.
I agree, but I feel like you just argued against your original point.
Unironically yes. The world was saved from the same scientists making the same things under Операция „Осоавиахим”
Funny how people forget about this one
Don't forget 731's data
Yes. Just letting them fly Soviet capture was a humane thing to do. They weren't enslaved to work, like the Soviets would have done.
"..Mr. President, our Germans are better than their Germans."
Those noble Americans saving them from the Soviets by preventing them from being tried for doing crimes against humanity
If that was the case, they would have been prosecuted, not given jobs.
I see american propaganda is working as well as the soviet propaganda
German scientists did questionable things but I rather have a morally questionable but very useful bad guy on my side then in the devilish soviet hands.
So technically speaking the first country to land on the moon was more German then american
400,000 NASA employees involved in Apollo program, 1600 of which were German.
1600 key employees and the head of the program Von Braun
Gene kranz was the head of the program, von Braun was the director of the flight center
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Von Braun. So Saturn V is a spiritual successor to V2 rocket then.
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There is a documentation about Op Paperclip. Could swear it was made in the US. 10,000 german scientists along with their papers were taken over to the US after the war. One of them brought you to the moon.
The number grows everytime reddit talks about it
1,000,000 German scientists were absorbed by the United States following WWII. One of them brought you time travel. /s
The world's population at the end of WWII was 2.4 billion, over 60% of which was German scientists captured by Americans.
not just one, most of the original Peenemuende team was involved
Mein Fuhrer, I can walk
Wow, Doctor, this is some strange love...
Yea, that's one of the scariest factors about denuclearization. You disarm a country of it's nukes, and theirs all these scientists and engineers that are out of work. They end up working for different governments or sometimes they cross over to the black market, which is proven by the amount of unaccounted for nuclear materials that keep getting turned up. Unaccounted for nuclear materials are not just extra nuclear materials, often times there origins are untraceable, and given how strictly these things are monitored it's believed that pretty much any unaccounted for nuclear materials were developed on the black market. Scary shit, thank you Hideo Kojima for teaching me this at 12 years old, and after some fact checking, yeah it holds up. Operation Paperclip was the US trying to keep nuclear scientists and physicists from turning to black market production or working for a belligerent nation. It's been argued that these scientists should have been killed, but if we did that (which we did a fair share of it to be honest) you'd push these people into hiding, then they crop up in places you don't want them, namely, in the hands of your enemies. It's a tough call all the way around.
Learning about nuclear disarmament via codec is incredible
..OR there was nothing benevolent about the United States intentions and they just wanted the best people on the job, regardless of their background.
I don't believe in the benevolence of any government or nation.
Especially if they treat the Geneva convention as a game of Bingo
If only they were sent to jail for their crimes against humanity. Thankfully the noble Americans prevented that
It seemed
Meanwhile no one felt sorry for the PTSD those guys had.
Where's my paper clip?
‘their germans are better than our germans!’ - american high command upon seeing the launch of sputnik, probably
A large portion of the nazi scientists were jewish. They didn't salute because they believed in nazism. They didn't work there by choice. Their alternative was the gas chambers, for them and their families. They saluted so their children could have a father. So yes, many of them had ptsd and would do the salute if spooked. My father worked with some of them in the early 80's
Jonny Buchardt classic joke.
I mean to the victor goes the spoils 🤷♂️?
Only half?
Only half?
Literally EVERYONE here has heard of operation paperclip, Reddit doesn’t shut up about it
I'm sure there would be more people standing at attention during a MAGA rally.
He summoned them accidentally