Nazi science lived on post war after the scramble for
the high-tech weaponry commenced in 1945.
Maxwell Smart: Eh, well, Chief, I guess I deserve a little
congratulations for this.
Chief: Yes Max,
you did a fine job.
Maxwell Smart:
Fine job?
Chief:
Yes.
Maxwell Smart:
Well you could be a little more enthusiastic than that, Chief.
After all, I'm a hero! I deserve a medal for
this.
Chief: A
medal?
Maxwell Smart:
Yes, don't you realize what I've done? I've made the world safe
for German scientists!
ROB ARNDT'S = WUNDERWAFFEN
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Just after the fall of the Third Reich the international
press began to introduce more or less fantastic stories about
alleged "wonder secret weapons" developed by the Nazi
scientists during the last months of
WWII.
The early achievements got by the primitive jets, rockets and
missiles, as well as the discovery of huge amounts of
prototypes and, above all, blueprints, stimulated the birth
and the circulation of wild stories about amazing "wonder
weapons".
The technological breakthroughs got by the Nazis, and their
evil aura, created a sort of "fascination" and wishful
thinking about the subject of the German secret weapons. It
was a popular subject for most of the international press (as
well as the never-ending controversy of Hitler's death or
survival) in the second half of the forties and many tabloids
and popular weeklies emphasized rumours and uncontrolled news
about fantastic German wonder
weapons.
