Posted on 11/07/2015 4:20:33 PM PST by Olog-hai
For two decades after the Second World War, over half of all employees of the West German interior ministry were ex-Nazis, a new study shows.
The research, carried out by the Center for Contemporary Historical Studies with the blessing of the Interior Ministry, shows that the number of ex-Nazi party members in both the West and East German postwar administrations was much higher than previously thought.
In exact figures, an average of 54 percent of civil servants in the West German interior ministry were former Nazis, although at its high point between 1966 and 1961, two-thirds of all employees at the ministry had been Nazi party members during the war. ...
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You must have watched “Ice Station Zebra”.
I was being somewhat sarcastic. I guess we’d need to ask the victorious leaders of the Allies as to why they allowed former Nazis to run the new government of Germany. U.S? Great Britain? France? Even the Russians, sworn enemies to the death of the Nazis? Hmmmm.
Hate to disagree, but the engineering technologies cited were a case of smart researchers coming up with the same answers independently to solve the same problems. Goddard was obsessively secretive about his New Mexico work in the ‘30’s, and no one has shown any evidence that Germany penetrated his work. Goddard hadn’t published any of his work since 1919. As for Von Braun’s comments, he had a habit of telling his bosses what they wanted to hear. If noting this is “German fanclub” chat, whatever.
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