In the last months of a war that has already cost millions of lives, when the soldiers of the warring parties have not yet laid down their arms, hundreds of German and Austrian scientists, most of them with a suspicious political past, begin to gather to be transferred to the countries of the victors, recruited with promises of hefty rewards, comfortable and luxurious living conditions, but also offers of crucial positions. In reality, the invisible recruitment continues uninterrupted and at an intensive pace until 1973, with the remnants of its effects still visible in our days. The ruthless determination, mainly of the Americans and the Russians, to exploit by any means the findings of cutting-edge German technology, causes catalytic developments in the post-war period, with consequences that are still clearly discernible in our era...