Taking Nazi Technology

Douglas M. O'Reagan is a historian of technology, industry, and national security. He earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. American Exploitation Programs: High Hopes, Narrow Gains, and Long-Term Lessons Chapter 2. British Scientific Exploitation and the Allure of German Know-How Chapter 3. French Planning for German Science: Student Spies and Exploitation in Place Chapter 4. Soviet Reparations and the Seizure of German Science and Technology Chapter 5. Academic Science and the Reconstruction of Germany Chapter 6. Documentation and Information Technology: Dealing with Information Overload Chapter 7. Legacies of Intellectual Reparations Programs: Industrial Know-How in the Postwar World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Taking Nazi Technology details what the Americans found when they began looting Nazi Germany. At a time when the United States has become deeply insecure about its technological leadership, the story has important lessons for policymakers. * National Interest * O'Reagan's masterful study of the Allies' technology transfer in all four zones and in all of its many facets, successes, and shortcomings is a most welcome contribution to Allied occupation history and to the history of technology in general. * Physics Today * [Taking Nazi Technology] provides a wide-ranging view of the scientific and technological exploitation carried out by all four of the powers that occupied Germany in 1945, without losing depth, nuance, or historical context. This is a story that has not been widely told before, and where it has been, its telling has generally been uneven, speculative, sensationalized, or all three. O'Reagan explains the policies and plans that underpinned these dramatic tales and fits them into the broader historical concepts to which they relate. * Science * O'Reagan has done an important service to move the literature beyond the narratives surrounding individual programs and toward new and bigger themes. * Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences * A very interesting new book. * Lawyers, Guns & Money *