Great way to prolong the Cold War, by feeding lots of false intel to both sides by these Nazis.
Much the same as using Mafia members to act as informers. Informers and spies are not necessarily nice guys.
And, frankly, Stalin was just as bad as Hitler, although FDR called him Uncle Joe and the NY Times insisted that he was a nice guy—and won its first Pulitzer Prize for whitewashing his mass murder in Ukraine.
Disgusting that those Nazis didn’t face justice.
As some background, in eastern Europe, the Nazis had built some very effective intelligence gathering networks, some of which were still intact at the end of the war.
What happened with many Germans, their assumption was that they were no longer working for the Nazis, but were backing the western powers against the communists, figuring the war would continue between the US and the Soviet Union.
On a more mundane level, I visited a former Wehrmacht maintenance unit, that as late as the 1980s was still in operation, performing “3 shop” maintenance on US equipment.
When the US Army captured them, they were told to remove their insignia, and to keep working.
So as far as the spy networks were concerned, it was business as usual. The old boss the same as the new boss.
Old news, this has been going on for centuries. Using the captured enemies for spying and info is the nature of the beast. It works most of the time but that is what you get with using them.
Operation Paperclip as well. The US scooped up tons of Nazi brainiacs and put them to work designing weapons for us. Kept the Brits and Russians from using their expertise.
Our German Scientists are better than Your (Russian) German Scientists, Na na na Na!!
Regards,
GtG