Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949 (Point IV Program)
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949 ("point IV" Program).
Author: United States. Congress. House Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949 (Point IV Program).
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Point IV Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher:
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Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Publisher:
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Category : Industrialization
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Taking Nazi Technology
Author: Douglas M. O'Reagan
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421439840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Intriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming "wonder-weapons" that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize "intellectual reparations" from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigators invaded Germany's factories and research institutions, seizing or copying all kinds of documents, from patent applications to factory production data to science journals. They questioned, hired, and sometimes even kidnapped hundreds of scientists, engineers, and other technical personnel. They studied technologies from aeronautics to audiotapes, toy making to machine tools, chemicals to carpentry equipment. They took over academic libraries, jealously competed over chemists, and schemed to deny the fruits of German invention to any other land—including that of other Allied nations. Drawing on declassified records, O'Reagan looks at which techniques worked for these very different nations, as well as which failed—and why. Most importantly, he shows why securing this technology, how the Allies did it, and when still matters today. He also argues that these programs did far more than spread German industrial science: they forced businessmen and policymakers around the world to rethink how science and technology fit into diplomacy, business, and society itself.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421439840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Intriguing, real-life espionage stories bring to life a comparative history of the Allies' efforts to seize, control, and exploit German science and technology after the Second World War. During the Second World War, German science and technology posed a terrifying threat to the Allied nations. These advanced weapons, which included rockets, V-2 missiles, tanks, submarines, and jet airplanes, gave troubling credence to Nazi propaganda about forthcoming "wonder-weapons" that would turn the war decisively in favor of the Axis. After the war ended, the Allied powers raced to seize "intellectual reparations" from almost every field of industrial technology and academic science in occupied Germany. It was likely the largest-scale technology transfer in history. In Taking Nazi Technology, Douglas M. O'Reagan describes how the Western Allies gathered teams of experts to scour defeated Germany, seeking industrial secrets and the technical personnel who could explain them. Swarms of investigators invaded Germany's factories and research institutions, seizing or copying all kinds of documents, from patent applications to factory production data to science journals. They questioned, hired, and sometimes even kidnapped hundreds of scientists, engineers, and other technical personnel. They studied technologies from aeronautics to audiotapes, toy making to machine tools, chemicals to carpentry equipment. They took over academic libraries, jealously competed over chemists, and schemed to deny the fruits of German invention to any other land—including that of other Allied nations. Drawing on declassified records, O'Reagan looks at which techniques worked for these very different nations, as well as which failed—and why. Most importantly, he shows why securing this technology, how the Allies did it, and when still matters today. He also argues that these programs did far more than spread German industrial science: they forced businessmen and policymakers around the world to rethink how science and technology fit into diplomacy, business, and society itself.
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Department of State Wireless Bulletin
Author: U.S. Dept. of State
Publisher:
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Publisher:
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1504
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1438
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