Not just Unit 731, but a lot of America&#x27;s rocketry experience was imported wholesale from Nazi Germany. We are talking 1500 scientists, technicians and engineers (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operation_Paperclip" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Operation_Paperclip</a>) including Wernher Von Braun, the designer of the V2. Indeed , Von Braun had been advocating space flight since the very beginning- all the  evidence suggests that his tryst with the Nazi weapons program, was merely in order to further his ambitions for human space flight.<p>Where would America be in the space race, had they not done this? I think in hindsight, it was a pretty clever decision - these people were probably the most valuable war bounty America got out of the whole deal.