SECRETS OF THE DEAD | The Hunt for Nazi Scientists | PBS

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At the end of World War II, undercover Allied agents engaged in a desperate race against one another to capture the elite of Germany¹s scientific community in an effort to gain a major advantage in the looming Cold War and Space Race. The Hunt for Nazi Scientists examines this crucial pursuit through eye-witness accounts of these daring missions.

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[AllanR2D2]

I always wondered what if those Ivy League followers of Stalin had not given nuclear secrets to the Soviets; would the Korean War have happened? I believe there is a good argument that perhaps, the Soviets would have been much further behind on their nuclear armaments and the Korean War would have been averted.

[mlb201]

zero credit for the british because they coppied the german me 262

[Eurofighter19]

@mlb201

Is the Gloster Meteor a reverse engineered Me-262?

[pussypop100]

@AllanR2D2 apparently the spies actually set the soviets back they gave them wrong formulas or something like that 

[AllanR2D2]

You give too much credit to the Nazis for the development of the 262 and zero credit to the British for developing their own jet fighter during WWII.