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There have been many reports in recent months about Hitler, the war, the perpetrators, the victims. 60 years since the end of the war. Yet what happened afterwards to those who worked feverishly to the very end on the further development of Hitler's machinery of death? Worldwide leaders in the research and production of secret military projects this at least is the unanimous verdict of the armaments experts of the victorious allied powers on the engineers and designers of the much acclaimed ´´wonder weapons´´. Shortly before the end of the war, both Soviets and Americans already went ´´headhunting´´ for the engineers and designers of Hitler's ´´wonder weapons´´. ´´We didn't want their land, their mineral resources or anything else we just wanted the German technology and their super brains,´´ recalls Wolf Samuel, one of the leading US ´´headhunters´´. No questions are asked about ideology and the Nazi involvement of the German specialists. Thus begins a spectacular and until now never recounted race by the victorious powers for German arms technology and their ´´brains´´, against the background of the emerging cold war. ´´Missiles For The Victors´´ a story of ambitious designers, unscrupulous secret service agents, distraught relatives and of the German roots for the arms race of the military blocks in the 20th century.