11-10-2022, 10:35 PM
The US govt's Project Paperclip brought dozens of Nazis who had skills that were considered of value in the Cold War to the US and set them up with whitewashed records. I suppose you could call it "recruitment," albeit at the point of a gun, since their alternative was to refuse and be tried as war criminals.
Hitler could have escaped to South America with a huge fortune and some scientists, only to have them turn on him and pursue their own scheme for world domination.
Alternatively, the scientists could have been pie in the sky altruists who believed that creating improved people by blending all races together would advance the cause of ending racial animosity. Scientists in their pursuit of knowledge can often be that blind to human nature.
I suspect that when Khan said there was little left on Earth, what he meant was there was little left for him. A reasonable POV for someone who might have been facing the prospect of being the world's most hunted fugitive at the time.
Hitler could have escaped to South America with a huge fortune and some scientists, only to have them turn on him and pursue their own scheme for world domination.
Alternatively, the scientists could have been pie in the sky altruists who believed that creating improved people by blending all races together would advance the cause of ending racial animosity. Scientists in their pursuit of knowledge can often be that blind to human nature.
I suspect that when Khan said there was little left on Earth, what he meant was there was little left for him. A reasonable POV for someone who might have been facing the prospect of being the world's most hunted fugitive at the time.