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"After the war, U.S. intelligence officers scoured Germany for useful scientific and technical information. Four hundred experts sifted through billions of page
by Lammy 5y ago
"After the war, U.S. intelligence officers scoured Germany for useful scientific and technical information. Four hundred experts sifted through billions of pages of documents and shipped 3.5 million microfilmed pages back to the United States, along with almost 200 tonnes of German industrial equipment."
Don't forget "and a bunch of actual Nazi scientists just for good measure" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip#Key_recruits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip#Key_recrui...