I'm not sure that the then German government was fully supportive of Zuse's work, from the wikipedia article: A request by his co-worker Helmut Schreyer—who ha

I'm not sure that the then German government was fully supportive of Zuse's work, from the wikipedia article: A request by his co-worker Helmut Schreyer—who had helped Zuse build the Z3 prototype in 1938[21]—for government funding for an electronic successor to the Z3 was denied as "strategically unimportant". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Zuse