Many Nazi scientists went to the Soviet Union too. They were probably less enthused, though.

Wernher von Braun went through quite some lengths (traveled half way through Germany with a badly broken arm in the chaos of the final days of the war) to ensure he was captured by the Americans, rather than the Russians.

Rockets go up, who cares where they come down…

Unfortunately I don’t remember exactly where I read this, but I think it might have been on an explanatory sign next to a reconstructed polybolos in a museum a long time ago.

On the other hand, they might dismiss it as a waste of ammunition. AFAIK There are Roman sources which complain about the polybolos being one.

On the other hand, the Romans were really, really good at adapting technologies and equipment from not only conquered peoples, but also their enemies. Remember when they simply copied Carthage’s ships and replaced Carthage as the dominant naval power in the Mediterranean?

Nobody:

The Romans after some reverse engineering:

If you can’t get anything spicy, the kernels of rose hips can be used as a devilish itching powder.

Yes, she clearly stands out in the field.

F

When you drop it.

Not very fast, and they ran into some issues.

Actually, the intended target cities had been deliberately spared conventional bombing raids in order to better assess and evaluate the then yet unknown (or, just vaguely known, after the Trinity test) damage potential of nuclear weapons.

Do you taste metal?

To nitpick some more, at least one of the nukes really was just a very odd kind of gun.

Actually, the OSS (The CIA’s precursor) did set a spy upon Werner Heisenberg, the head of Nazi Germany’s nuclear research programme, with the mission to assassinate him if there was any indication the Nazis were close to building a nuclear weapon.

He found out that the Nazis were nowhere close, so Heisenberg got to live.

The server:

It’s the nuclear option in self hosting.

Maybe a few catholics with an actual spine and a conscience stood up to the Nazis, but the catholic church as such supported them. Guess who played a major part in organising the “rat lines” for smuggling wanted Nazi war criminals into South America after WW2?

are you in Deutschland?

I am.

curious what the perspective is like on the ground after all the back and forth.

From the Ground it looks like virtually every other relevant political party is trying to steal Votes from the Nazis by copying their rhetoric and agenda, while failing to cooperate with each other against the Nazi scum, and also failing (or not even trying) to improve the lives of the majority of the population. They can’t even agree to finally ban the AfD, even though there is plenty of evidence for them striving to overthrow the constitutional order.

Especially the sucking up to Nazi voters is pretty much only working in favour of the Nazis, because it is legitimising them, and people who like that sort of thing prefer to have the real deal over voting for a cheap, half arsed copy.

The media are giving the AfD Nazi scum a platform by inviting their representatives to talk shows and interviews as if they were a normal party, and are allowing them to set the narrative.

If things keep going like they are right now, the current government coalition, like its predecessor, won’t make it to the end of their term, meanwhile, the Nazis are gaining votes. If things keep going like that, we’re looking at Nazis in government within the next 4 years.