• davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    15 hours ago

    Did these people get promoted to the head of the USSR’s space program or the chief of staff of the Warsaw Pact or the UN Secretary General or the the Head of the Soviet Socialist Republic Commission?

    No, the were used for their technical knowledge and allowed to live quiet lives in obscurity, away from any political power.

    • No, the were used for their technical knowledge and allowed to live quiet lives in obscurity, away from any political power.

      A blatant lie. Erich Apel joined the East German party and became head of the GDRs Economics Comission in the Politburo.

      Werner Gruner became an emeritus professor at the TU Dresden.

      Brunolf Baade joined the Socialist Unity Party in East Germany and led the jet plane industry there, after having done the same in the Soviet Union. He also was director of the Institute for Lightweight construction and the economical use of Materials and a lecturer at Dresden.

      In fact, many of the captured German scientists were only in captivity for less than a decade; afterwards the vast majority of them were allowed to return to East Germany and Austria, where most seem to have lived comfortable lives, and a number of them were politically active with high offices. They certainly did not live in obscurity, nor were they kept away from political power.

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      13 hours ago

      They were allowed to live they were given a country of refuge in their families were brought with them.