We stole technology from Nazi Germany that allowed us to win WWII. Do you view this as an immoral action?

Answer 1

The only thing that comes close to being as you describe was the ENIGMA code machine which was captured. All it did was mean that atomic weapons were not needed in Europe.

Answer 2

Well, I don't think you can call it stealing when a lot of the scientists that helped build the technology to win the war fled from Nazi Germany. Intellectuals were being persecuted or killed at that time, so to say it was stolen is kind of a stretch. Without them, we would have had a lot more problems winning WWII. Was it immoral, no. Millions of lives were lost because of a tyrannical dictator, anything to stop him was fair game.

Answer 3

I personally did not know that we stole technology from the Nazis. Not to sound like a jerk, but are you correct? We had many facilities over here working on the same technology at the same time it was a definite race to get it done first. To answer your question though, no it's not immoral. Agencies like the CIA and the British MI6, KGB that's their job to make sure that the other guy doesn't have that step up on their country. People like Hitler would have used the bomb to practice their brand of genocide and, as corny as it sounds, to rule the world. Which would have happened if it were not for countries like the Allies to make sure he did not get that step up. It would have been immoral for us not to do so, if we did.

Answer 4

Britain had pushed off the threatened invasion of Operation Sealion before the Germans attacked the Soviets in June 1941. although the warfare turned right into a techniques from gained at that factor it truly is frustrating to work out how the Germans ought to mount an invasion interior 5 months – in basic terms positioned, they did no longer have the naval and air superiority to mount an operation of the form required and no risk of organising up that superiority in the timescale. Edit: there is no consider collectively with the casualties suffered by technique of the Soviets into the equation, the kind in which they fought the warfare, and the places, became certain (meant) to reason huge casualties any non-Soviet allied attacks on German troops does no longer were fought interior an similar way or interior an similar places. no matter if Germany ought to ever again attempt an attack on the united kingdom is organic conjecture, even by technique of 1941 the U-boat threat became lessened and the Luftwaffe had taken a extreme beating. although the possibilities of an invasion of France by technique of the Allies of the likes of Overlord would were slender and a lot less in all probability to be triumphant so would no longer have taken position in any respect.

Answer 5

Well war is immoral, so I guess anything involved with it is also. I think war is wrong, but understand that a government is needed to keep order & a army is needed to protect it, In war any means should be used to win & quickly with the least deaths. I have the utmost respect for the people serving in the forces & do not think that they wil be damned for serving. We have to have order until God can come back & take order as it should be. But to your question immoral or not you do what you have to to win & protect your people.

Answer 6

In the case of war, letting the organized killing or genocide go on is worse if not equally immoral -- especially when we could have the power to stop it.

Survival is not very moral, all we need to look at is the wild life and how brutal it is for them to get a meal on earth.

Circumstances do trap us with a lose lose situation from time to time. We just have to take it with a grain of salt because it is the human race that brought it to itself.

Answer 7

The Bush family provided Hitler with about one-third of the raw materials and funding that was used in the development of that so-called "stolen" technology. President Roosevelt had to force the Bush family to stop sending money and supplies to Hitler with the U.S. Trading With the Enemy Act of October 20, 1942. Considering all this, perhaps we did not "steal" technology from Nazi Germany as much as we "collected on our investments".

Are you asking, "Technically speaking, if stealing is immoral, would stealing be immoral if the action led to good?" I do not value capitalistic property law concepts. I do not see immorality in the social disease of "common-man" theft as much as I do in the plundering, thieving actions and practices of capitalism, which is a spiritual disease of far greater harm and impact than the mere theft of property. And, lives are more important than someones precious property.

In an opportunity as you have described in your question, to steal perchance to save a life => it would be immoral NOT to steal. To steal for greed and plunder => that is immoral. If you wish to know, based on that differentiation, whether we stole that technology to save lives or whether we stole it for greed and plunder, look up, sometime, what exactly the technology and science was that we took. Then, look up who got rich off that stolen technology after the war.

Answer 8

Ahhh....here's where i get to say it....All Is Fair In Love, and War, and Business. Life and Death? Steal Rob and Plunder. Why???
Be it that your intentions are to free a people, lift up the children through propaganda to the encouragement of an entire nation. Make Your People To Be Superior To Other Nations into future generations of philosophy,art and technology. Play the game. WORLD WAR. Kick *** all the way to the King down on his knees!

Answer 9

Immoral? How in the world?
War is basically nothing else, since were in the process of killing as many humans as it takes to "win", so, no, it isnt "immoral". I think the phrase all is fair in love and war might be simplistic, but it is a blunt reminder of a basic accepted truth.
Besides, they needed to be stopped, and "at all cost", isnt a phrase I fear either in this circumstance.

Answer 10

In someone points a gun at you with the intention of killing you and you wrestle the gun off them and refuse to give it back - do you think this is an immoral action? As they say all is fair in love and war.

Answer 11

the americans did not steal the technology from the nazi's,the main scientist were british, danish ,german and a few home grown,just the same as the moon landing the majority of scientists were british, german ,russian ,