@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange one of my undergrad and near MS chemistry professors was formally an Air Force research chemist.
He would wax eloquent about the difference between the German trained rocket scientists (he was mostly talking about the fuels people because that was his specialty) and the American trained ones.
He was most pointed about the one German gray hair who saw the proposal for zip fuel as a rocket propellant and his only comment was "won't work". The Americans, confident in it's energetics, pressed on.
The gray haired German was right as the rockets would spew a great green jet, and then the fuel would form a refractory like component, plug the nozzle, and become a bomb. Usually at under 1000ft off the pad.
He always recommended (in the time of a paper library) "if you think you have a novel idea, check the abstracts. I'll buy you a beer if you find an idea the Germans didn't try between 1920 and 1940"
I can say a lot of criticisms of Nazi , yet I am curious about how they developed the talent that the US&A ultimately nabbed for better or worse