[colorado tanker]

Our German rocket scientists were way better than the Russians. Heck, they never did figure out how to build anything like a Saturn V.

With the brutality, enormous casualties and mass murder of civilians in the East, every German wanted to end up in the hands of Americans or Brits.

[YogicCowboy]

See line by Patrick McGoohan in Ice Station Zebra on Russian, British, and American captured German scientists.

[Empireoftheatom48]

If my memory is correct the Russians were testing their version of the Saturn V, the tests were spectacular failures.