Science, Technology, and Reparations: Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany

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Stanford University Press, 1990 - History - 280 pages
background to the current discussions of German unification. rubber, color film, ceramics, and electron microscopes. Interesting as wind tunnels, tape recorders, textiles and dyes, synthetic fuel and Gimbel (history, Humboldt State, California) draws on public and private archives in Germany and the US to reveal the extent of the World War II. He concludes by agreeing with the 1947 Soviet charge that about ten billion dollars worth of patents and other technical knowledge were taken without compensation. The information was ostensibly gathered to further the war effort against Japan, and was then to be made available to the world, but much of it was quietly shunted to private corporations. Includes case studies in areas such Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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