ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the three areas of German scientific and technological endeavour which became the subject of particularly intense focus from the British exploitation staff – chemical and biological warfare, rocketry and aeronautics. An Anglo-American body tasked with certain aspects of Germany’s post-war economic recovery, including facilitating trips of Western businessmen to Germany and German businessmen abroad. In August 1945, the British Intelligence Objectives Sub-Committee was informed that although Japanese research had been fairly advanced, they had generally failed to apply science to war on a substantial scale and that, as a result, any investigations in Japan should focus on research rather than development and on laboratories rather than plants. In March 1945, the War Office decreed that the amount of work entailed in the biological warfare aspect of German disarmament would not even ‘justify the services of a full time Technical Officer’.
