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Releasing names of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals who fled to Canada could embarrass federal government, bureaucrats told (ottawacitizen.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure the Soviets took Nazi scientists and made them live in closed cities that were de-facto prisons, working under close supervision by Soviet intelligence. Apparently most of them were re-patriated to the GDR by '53, having been held at military labs in the USSR with order to re-produce as much of their labs and research as possible up til then. And the GDR famously did not restore Nazis to their official positions in the military, intelligence, industry, and academia after the war.

Here's Tom Lehrer's Wernher Von Braun

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio