In 1945, with the Soviet occupation of Berlin, Hitler and his lover Ava both committed suicide in the bunker, and the Nazi regime finally came to an end. They withdrew from the chassis they had occupied, and the Soviet Union opened its mouth widely, looting both civilian and military materials from Germany along the way.
Other countries also demanded war reparations from Germany, although after the fall of the Nazis, Germany was divided between the United States and the Soviet Union, and as a pawn to balance each other, the Germans did not pay much money.
The strange thing is that the United States, as the dominant victory, did not ask for a lot of money, nor did it rush to take away the machinery and core equipment like the Soviet Union, they took away from Germany a large number of people who worked for the Nazi regime without trial in the courts. This can't help but feel very strange.
In fact, formally these people established the United States as the hegemon of the aviation industry in the following decades. So why? Let's slowly get closer to operation paper clips that the Americans enacted towards the end of World War II.
As Nazi Germany persecuted the Jews, the Jewish people took refuge in other countries, and some of them Jewish scientists, such as Hibbert Einstein, came to the United States and persuaded the Americans to study the atomic bomb before Germany. Einstein's conclusion made an important contribution to the construction of the atomic bomb by the Jewish scientist Richard Feynman.
This made the Americans realize that the technology of nazi Germany was so advanced, so they wanted to continue to obtain scientific research talents who came from Nazi Germany to serve the Nazi regime and develop their own technology so that they could make science and technology in the world leading position and achieve hegemony after World War II.
The U.S. government decided to immediately investigate germany and secretly bring the scientists back to the United States, which is the origin of Operation Paperclip.
The U.S. government specifically told the Nazi scientists who had been captured and controlled that they had a chance to start a new life, and as long as they went to the United States, they would not only not be tried by the war tribunal, exempted from war responsibility, but also enjoy the high-ranking officials.
For fear of being convicted in a court that tried Nazi crimes. Nazi scientists came to the United States. One of the most famous scientists was Werner von Braun.
Born into a German aristocrat, born prominent and gifted, Werner von Braun received a doctorate degree in his early twenties, and during Nazi Germany, he participated in the development of the world's most advanced V-2 missile, and the German army threw the missile into the battlefield, shocking the world.
Because there had never been such an attack before, the Americans were even more determined to bring him to the United States, and when von Braun continued to use his ingenuity, the United States planned to land on the moon.
As the main designer of NASA's space research and development program, von Braun led the design team to design the Apollo 4 carrier rocket Saturn 5, taking the lead in completing the feat of human footprints on the moon.
Similarly, the United States also took away many other German talents, which proved to be a very clever plan, and after World War II, the United States became the most powerful country in the world, and these Nazi war criminals were whitewashed in their american identity, so they served the United States more desperately.
This shows that the strength of a country and the core technology of talents can not be separated from the relationship, if we want our own country to be strong, it is bound to be inseparable from the cultivation of various types of talents.