During World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for German scientists. Why haven't they heard about competing for Japanese scientists?

1945 In May, Germany officially declared its unconditional surrender. Soviet troops on the eastern front and American-led allies on the western front successively entered Berlin. With the advantage of being the first to enter Berlin, the Soviet Union plundered a large number of advanced scientific and industrial equipment in Germany. In the later period, the United States began to absorb a large number of Nazi scientific talents. Later, the Soviets woke up and began to woo engineers. Berlin, which had just put down the war, was alive again.

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(Allied forces enter Berlin)

Then, Japan is also a defeated country in World War II, and its science and technology development is also very good. Did the United States and the Soviet Union compete for Japanese scientists?

As we know, Germany's technology was quite developed during World War II. The Germans not only used the powerful V- 1 and V-2 rockets on the battlefield, but also developed advanced weapons such as jet fighter moving guided missiles. As early as before the end of World War II, the United States made a plan to compete for technical personnel, which was called the "cloud-shielding and fog-shielding project".

But many people in the United States strongly oppose the use of Nazi personnel. The United States had to rename the program "Paper Clip Program" to secretly attract German talents in other names.

In fact, the Soviet Union later set up a similar plan, but the effect of conscription was not good. The reason is that the ideology of the Soviet Union has always lagged behind the capitalist world. Just as the Germans on the eastern front would rather rush to the western front to surrender to the American army, German scientists are closer to the United States.

Through the "paper clip project", the United States brought more than 100 German scientific and technological talents back to China. Most of these people later became an important force in the field of American science and technology, the most famous of which was Nazi Wernher wernher von braun, known as the "father of rockets".

Wernher wernher von braun is the chief engineer of the V-2 missile. During the war, he invented many advanced weapons for Nazi Germany, which dealt a great blow to the allied forces. After going to the United States, he became the chief designer of NASA's space research and development project, presided over the research and development of the launch vehicle Saturn 5, and helped mankind achieve the feat of landing on the moon.

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(Werner wernher von braun)

I'm afraid Stalin didn't expect German scientific talents to have such great influence. Otherwise, he could not have ordered the looting of advanced scientific equipment from the beginning and made such a thing as throwing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds.

So, why didn't the Soviet Union compete for Japanese scientists?

During World War II, Japan's science and technology was not the most developed, but it also had some merits. For example, Japan's I-400 submarine was not only the largest submarine in the world at that time, but also the deepest dive. In addition, Japan has also developed an underwater aircraft carrier, which can even carry a seaplane to attack the United States.

But apart from submarines, Japan's other technologies are not necessarily better than those of the United States and the Soviet Union. Japan once made a huge "international joke" on the science and technology of World War II.

193 1 after Japanese occupation of northeast China, the "puppet Manchukuo" was established. At that time, Japan wanted to plunder strategic resources and dig for oil in the northeast. As a result, the Japanese team of experts believes that oil is formed by the precipitation of sapropelic mud on the seabed over the years, and the area with oil must be at the seaside. So Japan sent a team to explore the northeast coastal areas, and finally found nothing.

Because of the failure to exploit oil in the northeast, Japan later had to choose the southward policy of sending troops to Southeast Asia to snatch resources, which also pulled the United States into World War II.

However, the Japanese also have a study that is very attractive to the Soviet Union and the United States. That's the living experiment data held by the infamous 73 1 unit. These "scientists" engaged in human experiments were later taken away by Americans and enjoyed extremely high treatment in the United States. The research results of human experiments were also studied by Americans and later applied to the Korean battlefield.

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(Pacific War)

Then, since Japan also has the world's leading technology, why didn't the Soviet Union grab it?

It turned out that the Soviet Union had tried, but in the end Japanese scientists were absorbed by the United States.

As we know, the United States fought against Japan in the Pacific for four years, and the war was completely over until the atomic bomb exploded in 1945. In the Pacific War, American troops met with stubborn resistance from the Japanese. Especially in the island wars such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Americans suffered heavy losses.

After Japan announced its surrender, the US military quickly occupied Japan. The Soviet Union entered the Northeast only one week before Japan surrendered. Three days after Japan surrendered, it finally seized four northern islands. When Stalin wanted to go further and head for Hokkaido, he was sternly rejected by MacArthur, commander of the US military stationed in Japan.

Judging from the international situation at that time, signs of hegemony between the United States and the Soviet Union have begun to appear. However, because the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses in the Soviet-German War, the country lost tens of millions of people and its infrastructure was completely destroyed. Therefore, the Soviet Union at that time was simply unable to compete with the United States. Stalin knew this clearly and was unwilling to turn against the United States in a short time.

In this way, almost all of Japan's resources have been collected by the United States. Even if the Soviet Union wanted to rob it, there was nothing it could do.