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Date: August 31, 2007 1:49:08 AM PDT
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Subject: US & UK Hijacked Hitler's Nazi War Machine
How Britain put Nazis' top men to work
By Stewart Payne
Last Updated: 2:55am BST 31/08/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/30/
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German scientists and technicians were abducted at the end of the
Second World War and made to work in Britain as part of a secret
programme to plunder the defeated nation's trade secrets and
intellectual assets, declassified government documents have revealed.
The V2 was invented by Nazi Germany's scientists
An elite British Army unit captured hundreds of Germans in
possession of Nazi scientific and technical know-how and
transported them across the Channel to work in government
ministries and private companies.
Others were forced to travel to Britain, where they were
interviewed by commercial rivals and detained if they did not
reveal trade secrets.
The unit, known as T-Force, was lightly armed and highly mobile.
Following the D-Day landings it was tasked with seizing anything of
scientific or military value.
The purpose was two-fold. Initially the scramble to uncover Nazi
military secrets in the dying days of the war was seen as helpful
in ending the conflict in the Far East and a method by which
Britain could benefit from German knowledge to give it a commercial
edge as it rebuilt its war-ravaged economy.
As the Cold War developed, it was also part of a campaign to
prevent the Soviet Union from benefiting from Nazi scientific and
industrial assets.
The Foreign Office papers, marked "top secret" and discovered at
the National Archives at Kew, show that, in addition to those
Germans believed to have volunteered to work in Britain, hundreds
more were rounded up and transported to the UK against their will.
The documents concede that methods used resembled those of the
Gestapo, Nazi Germany's secret police.
A memo written by a civil servant working with the British military
in Germany in August 1946 explained the procedure. "Usually an NCO
arrives without notice at the house or office of the German and
warns that he will be required.
He does not give him any details of the reasons, nor does he
present his credentials.
"Some time later the German is seized (often in the middle of the
night) and removed under guard."
"This procedure savours very much of the Gestapo methods and, quite
apart from causing great and unnecessary inconvenience to the
individual and to the industry employing him, it is bound to create
feelings of alarm and insecurity."
The abductions were carried out in the British-controlled zone of
post-war Germany on the orders of two organisations.
One, the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee (Bios) was
made up of armed forces and Whitehall representatives, and was
answerable to the Cabinet.
The other was the Field Information Agency (Technical), or Fiat, a
joint Anglo-American military intelligence unit that earmarked
scientists for "enforced evacuation" from US and French zones, and
from Berlin.
Both had offices in London from where investigators would be sent
to Germany, looking for human resources as well as machinery that
could be shipped back to Britain. Representatives from leading
companies such as ICI, BSA Tools, and Courtaulds were included in
the teams.
After the war, T-Force was formed into the Enemy Personnel
Exploitation Section, which escorted Bios and Fiat investigators,
and took away the scientists and technicians identified as being in
possession of knowledge useful to the UK.
After interrogation, which could last for months, they were either
released or put to work in Britain. Those who worked were paid 15
shillings (75p) a week.
The files suggest that up to 1,500 scientists and technicians were
identified for removal to the UK "whether they are willing or not".
All the occupying powers used various methods to loot Germany of
its scientific and technical know-how. By 1947 there was concern
that this was impeding Germany's reconstruction, and the programmes
were stopped.
The policy of forcing scientists to work in the UK changed to
offering them contracts, with many taking up work with British
aerospace and armaments companies.
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