08-24-2022, 01:31 PM
(08-24-2022, 12:58 PM)Duchess Wrote: Why would they recruit Nazi's? Whhhhy? My god.
The State Dept and CIA were very pro-Nazi. Roosevelt's Treasury Secretary knew this and knew that John D. Rockefeller was aiding the Nazi gov't. Standard Oil gave the Nazis the technical proces for manufacturing synthetic rubber. Without it they wouldn't have had a mobile warfare capability, which their economy was completely dependent on because it was so weak. The Germans utilized blitzkrieg because it was extremely efficient against forces that didn't have that capability, but also out of necessity. Standard also gave them the technical process for raising the octane level of fuel, which was required for modern aircraft. It was legal for companies to trade with enemies during wartime, up to a point. Rockefeller went far beyond what was allowed for in the Trading with the Enemy Act. He also sold oil to the Japanese.
The military-industrial complex -- referred to by Eisenhower -- was keenly interested in developing an ICBM, and that was an area in which German science was especially advanced, so that may well have been the primary reason for bringing Nazi expats to the US, but certainly not the only one.