After World War II, the American forces in Germany implemented a program of denazification in the parts of the country which they administered.

The goal was to remove anyone who was a member of the Nazi Party from any position of authority.

However, some of those Nazis were considered valuable,

and the Americans wanted them all to themselves.

So they implemented a secret program

to bring them to the United States. Learn more about Operation Paper clip

and how the United States recruited former German and Nazi scientists

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. You're not going to be a When the tide began turning in World War II and Germany began to retreat on the

eastern front with Russia, the Germans began to reassess their military priorities.

During the offensive, everything was put into attacking, and many skilled educated technical people

were put in positions for which they were ill-suited.

PhDs and other skilled people may have been working in

kitchens or as truck drivers. Eventually they were identified and brought back

to Germany to work on projects for Germany's defense. You might be wondering why these people were ever put in such

positions in the first place and that was the state of things in Nazi Germany.

The list of these people was compiled by Werner Ozenberg who was the head of the

German Defense Research Association.

In February 1945, as the Allies were advancing on Germany, they created a group known as

T-Force.

While it sounds like a group of Mutant Superheroes, it was actually a joint American

British group whose mission was to secure German scientific and technical industrial targets

and their associated personnel before they could be destroyed by the retreating German forces.

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