> Unable to continue building computers – which was also forbidden by the Allied Powers... ...this bit of information was actually news to me, but the brain dr

> Unable to continue building computers – which was also forbidden by the Allied Powers... ...this bit of information was actually news to me, but the brain drain that started in 1933 and then intensified after WW2 is probably an important part of the answer. Maybe it also contributed to a general mindset that the grass is greener across the ocean ;) A lot of innovation still happened in Germany after the war - even in East Germany, but somehow the fruits were always picked elsewhere, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qccejmqbPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qccejmqbPg - or this 'German SpaceX': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG)