While a good example of the US looking the other way to get what they wanted, this was not a part of how naziism was created.
At the same time it was a common sense activity at the time, a lot of science would have been lost otherwise. In fact some of the insane things the Nazis did could have never been done otherwise and did advance medical science. The ethical argument for discarding this information is interesting but not actually compelling to me, because it doesn’t encourage others to go commit atrocities imo.
Operation Paperclip.
While a good example of the US looking the other way to get what they wanted, this was not a part of how naziism was created.
At the same time it was a common sense activity at the time, a lot of science would have been lost otherwise. In fact some of the insane things the Nazis did could have never been done otherwise and did advance medical science. The ethical argument for discarding this information is interesting but not actually compelling to me, because it doesn’t encourage others to go commit atrocities imo.