The Great Patents Heist

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The Great Patents Heist.

John Nugent.

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One of the greatest ripoffs of all time was the theft of German
patents after World War II. From saccharin
and aspirin to refrigeration, radio and space flight technology, the
victorious Allies ensured their post-War scientific lead and prosperity by
simply stealing German inventions - literally thousands of tons of
patents. As one gloating Washington bureaucrat put it, it was "the first
orderly exploitation of an entire country's brain power." [93Kb / 1 page]

The Great Patents Heist. John Nugent excerpts:


German aircraft designer and manufacturer Claudius Dornier's Super
Whale (shown below a 1920s Zeppelin). First built in 1926, it proved
an important milestone in the development of flying boats, and it
pioneered regular flight between Europe and South America. Germany's
motor, jet and rocket aerial creativity from early in the century
until 1945 was considered remarkable. Few realize that at the end of
World War I, after some 1,000 days of combat, Germany's 35 aircraft
manufacturers and 20 aero-engine plants had 18,500 planes in
inventory. The Versailles Treaty forced severe curtailment of German
aviation. The nations of the Inter-Allied Control commission took
their pick of advanced German planes and technology, while
destroying all remaining military aircraft.

One of the greatest ripoffs of all time was the theft of German patents
after World War II.




Gottlieb Daimler (1834-1900) and Karl Benz (1844-1929) invented the modern
gasoline engine in 1878-1887. Other Germans took the lead in 19th-century
chemistry and created the first contact lens (in the 1880s), X-rays
(Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895), quantum physics (discovered in 1900 by Max
Planck, 1858-1947), aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and last (and least),
saccharin in 1913. As for previous centuries, the Germans got no credit
for inventing the croissant or "Kipferl," as the Germans call it, in
Vienna to celebrate defeating the Turks in 1683; one notes the Turkish
religious logo, the crescent (a baked good then snatched up by the French
as the "croissant"). Equally, they receive zero credit for baking the
first quiche, which in Lorraine and Rhinelander dialects ("Kiisch") simply
means "kitchen leftovers baked into a pie."

Baked goods aside, the facts reveal that the most creative period in world
history may have been Germany between 1932 and 1945, and that much of
America's scientific lead came from looting German patents by the ton,
both in World War I and far more so after World War II.
And because Germany was so devastated after World War II, there has been a
brain drain ever since of the top young German scientists - to
Massachusetts and California for computers and genetics and to greater Los
Angeles, Houston and Cape Canaveral for aerospace. As one German scientist
remarked: "Since the war, we have not had the financing capabilities for
basic research for the long-term future. That kind of serious money only
the Americans have. In Germany, and in Japan, also, we do applied and
clinical research for immediate applications. But to be on the cutting
edge, the money and the positions are now in America and we have to go
there."2

An astounding admission of the stripping of German inventiveness after the
war came in an October 1946 article by C. Lester Walker in Harper's
magazine. Entitled "Secrets by the Thousands,"*** it presents some
problems for the Bernt Engelmanns of this world who imply that German
science in the 1932-45 period would have been "nothing without the Jews."

In fact, the article suggests in deadly seriousness that German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler had been right, from his point of view, to prolong the war to
the last gasp. According to the deputy commanding general of Army Air
Forces Intelligence, Air Technical Service Command, in a speech to the
American Society of Aeronautical Engineers, "The Germans were preparing
rocket surprises for the whole world in general and England in particular
which would have, it is believed, changed the course of the war if the
invasion had been postponed for so short a time as half a year."

Today, Hermann Oberth (white smock, center) is virtually forgotten
outside related scientific circles, although he pioneered Germany's
(and therefore the world's) space flight movement. This photo was
taken in Berlin on July 23, 1930, just before Oberth demonstrated
his rocket engine. To the left of the rocket is 18-year-old Wernher
von Braun. He would be central to Germany's World War II ballistic
missile development at Peenemünde, a remote coastal island in the
Baltic Sea. During the Third Reich's earlier years, rocket
technology was centered at Kummersdorf. Hitler visited that complex
in September 1933, and it prompted him to grant the scientists more
resources than they had expected.

Even without its "brilliant Jewish minority", the Germans' "V-2 rocket which
bombed London was just a toy compared to what the Germans had up their
sleeve." They had 138 types of guided missiles in various stages of
production or development, using every kind of remote control device or
fuse: radio, radar, wire-guided, continuous wave, acoustics, infrared,
light beams and magnetism. And for power the Germans were years ahead in
jet propulsion at both subsonic and supersonic speeds - even creating a
"jet helicopter" wherein tiny jets spun the helicopter blade tips at
blinding speeds.

Just as the war was ending, and President Franklin Roosevelt was ordering
both Gens. George Patton and Dwight David Eisenhower to pull back and let
"Uncle Joe" (Josef Stalin) have Berlin and Eastern Europe, the Germans had
been readying their giant A-4 rocket for production. Forty-six feet in
length, it weighed over 24,000 pounds and could travel 230 miles - rising
60 miles over the earth to a blistering top speed of 3,375 miles per hour.
Its secret was a rocket motor running on liquid nitrogen and alcohol. It
was either radar controlled or self-guided by a gyroscope. Since it flew
faster than the speed of sound (by many times), it could not be heard
before it struck.


Technicians work on improving rocket technology in an underground
factory.
Another rocket in the works was the A-9, still bigger at 29,000 pounds and
equipped with wings. It had a range of 3,000 miles. Manufactured at
Peenemünde, it arced into the sky at an incredible 5,870 miles per hour.
But most Americans know about German World War II rockets. A few even know
that in addition to the car engine the Germans also invented the jet and
perfected the superhighway or autobahn (the three most important
inventions binding this vast country [i.e. America; Scriptorium ed.]
together). Virtually no one knows that in Wright-Patterson Field in Ohio,
in the Library of Congress and in the Department of Commerce in
Washington, a "mother lode" of 1,500 tons of German patents and research
papers were being mined furiously after the war. One gloating Washington
bureaucrat called it "the greatest single source of this type of material
in the world, the first orderly exploitation of an entire country's brain
power."

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[Rob Roy MacGregor]

It could have been a manned expedition. A sad loss.

Is it time to shoot the bastards yet?