Interesting question. The German rocket scientists that the Soviet caputured and locked up in labor camps did pretty well at designing missiles for the Russians. Their condidtions were better than plantation slaves, to be fair, and their conditions were clearly tied to their willingness to cooperate so they had an incentive to give the masters what they wanted. Also, escaping merely meant you were alone and 3,000 miles away from freedom in Siberia or Central Asia, with nothing like the underground railroad to help you.
But I do wonder if when you have *really* brilliant, driven scientist-engineer types, that they won't continue their creative activity because they are so compelled to do so, because the boredom of *not* doing so is torture in and of itself.
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