Zwracałem już kiedyś uwagę na osiągnięcia niemieckich/nazistowskich naukowców w zakresie areonautyki oraz produkcji zbrojeniowej - ktore potem , przejęte przez aliantów stały się podstawą rozwoju ich przemysłu rakietowego czy zbrojeniowego.
Okazuje się, iż to tylko wierzchołek wielkiej góry lodowej. Niemcy - naziści w czasie II wojny o 10, 20, 30 lat wyprzedzili aliantów ( chodzi szczególnie o USA i GB, bo ZSRR był przecież totalnie zacofany) właściwie w większości różnorakich dziedzin przemysłowych, począwszy od wynalezienia noktowizorów, a skończywszy na zaawansowanych technologiach produkcji serów. W 1946 r. amerykańskie czasopismo Harper's Magazine opublikowało tekst na temat jak wyżej. Podaję do niego link i polecam uważnej lekturze. Można dostać zawrotu głowy. Nie będzie wielką przesadą stwierdzenie, iż niemieccy/nazistowscy uczeni stworzyli podstawy nowoczesnego przemysłu i rolnictwa. Dla zaostrzenia apetytu i zachęcenia do lektury tekstu przeklejam kilka soczystych passusów:

"The head of the communications unit of Technical Industrial Intelligence Branch opened his desk drawer and took out the tiniest vacuum tube I had ever seen. It was about half thumb-size."Notice it is heavy porcelain - not glass - and thus virtually indestructible. It is a thousand watt - one-tenth the size of similar American tube. Today our manufacturers know the secret of making it.... And here's something....". He pulled some brown, papery-looking ribbon off a spool. It was a quarter-inch wide, with a dull and a shiny side."That's Magnetophone tape," he said. "It's plastic, metallized on one side with iron oxide. In Germany that supplanted phonograph recordings. A day's Radio program can be magnetized on one reel. You can demagnetize it, wipe it off and put a new program on at any time. No needle; so absolutely no noise or record wear. An hour-long reel costs fifty cents." He showed me then what had been two of the most closely-guarded technical secrets of the war: the infra-red device which the Germans invented for seeing at night, and the remarkable diminutive generator which operated it. German cars could drive at any speed in a total blackout, seeing objects clear as day two hundred meters ahead. Tanks with this device could spot targets two miles away. As a sniper scope it enabled German riflemen to pick off a man in total blackness."

"We got, in addition, among these prize secrets, the technique and the machine for making the world's most remarkable electric condenser. Millions of condensers are essential to the radio and radar industry. Our condensers were always made of metal foil. This one is made of paper, coated with 1/250,000 of an inch of vaporized zinc. Forty per cent smaller, twenty per cent cheaper than our condensers, it is also self-healing. That is, if a breakdown occurs (like a fuse blowing out), the zinc film evaporates, the paper immediately insulates, and the condenser is right again. It keeps on working through multiple breakdowns - at fifty per cent higher voltage than our condensers! To most American radio experts this is magic, double-distilled."

"In textiles the war secrets collection has produced so many revelations that American textile men are a little dizzy. There is a German rayon-weaving machine, discovered a year ago by the American 'Knitting Machine' Team, which increases production in relation to floor space by one hundred and fifty percent. Their "Links-Links" loom produces a ladderless, run-proof hosiery. New German needle-making machinery, it is thought will revolutionize that business in both the United Kingdom and the United States. There is a German method for pulling the wool from sheepskins without injury to hide or fiber, by use of an enzyme. Formerly the "puller" - a trade secret - was made from animal pancreas from American packing houses. During the war the Nazis made it from a mold called aspergil paraciticus, which they seeded in bran. It results not only in better wool, but in ten per cent greater yield."

"But of all the industrial secrets, perhaps, the biggest windfall came from the laboratories and plants of the great German cartel, I. G. Farbenindustrie. Never before, it is claimed, was there such a store-house of secret information. It covers liquid and solid fuels, metallurgy, synthetic rubber, textiles, chemicals, plastics, drugs, dyes. One American dye authority declares:"It includes the production know-how and the secret formulas for over fifty thousand dyes. Many of them are faster and better than ours. Many are colors we were never able to make. The American dye industry will be advanced at least ten years."

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