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Author Gimbel, John, 1922-1992.

Title Science, technology, and reparations : exploitation and plunder in postwar Germany / John Gimbel
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1990

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 W'PONDS  940.531422 Gim/Sta  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Part I. From wartime military intelligence to postwar commercial exploitation: 1. Wartime scientific and technical intelligence -- 2. From wartime intelligence to postwar exploitation -- Part II. The Postwar Programs: 3. Project paperclip -- 4. The documents program -- 5. Consultants and missions -- 6. Transferring the technical know-how -- Part III. Terminating FIAT and Evaluating the Take: 7. Governors versus exploiters -- 8. Evaluating the take -- 9. The Germans assess their loses -- Part IV. Conclusion: 10. Observations and reflections -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliographical notes -- Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
SUBJECT FIAT review of German science, 1939-1946. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84802916
Subject Scientists -- Recruiting -- United States.
Scientists -- Germany.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reparations.
SUBJECT Germany -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91001651
LC no. 89037835
ISBN 0804717613 (alk. paper)