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Originally Posted by JayUtah
While it's true that the Russians employed ex-Nazi rocket scientists in their own space program, the Russians studied the Germans' work and then let them go home. The Germans who surrendered to the Americans went to the U.S. as essentially permanent prisoners of war.
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"Yours" Germans in the beginning were nothing, AFAIK. Not even POWs. They were brought to the US during operation Paperclip. When they were to be legalized, the Army did some trick. They arranged that they left in busses the US uncontrolled at the Mexican border. Behind the border, they turned around and this time immigrated into the US.
I don't know very much about "their" Germans. Yes, they let them go after some years, but until then they were less or more prisoners. But, this was true also for any soviet scientist who worked on secret projects...
I once saw a German book in the library, its title was "Rocket Slaves". I thought, it must be about the poor guys who had to build the V2 in Dora. But it was about "their" Germans. I was upset about the "occupation" of the term "Rocket Slaves" for people, who had some fate, but a much better one that the one at Dora. So I haven't read the book until yet.
Harald