““While the Soviets simply arrested and deported some of the scientists – typically taking their families along to serve both as hostages and to make the men's captivity more bearable (and thus more productive) – they also used outright reassuring lies to lure many of the scientists into coming voluntarily to Russia for a “brief stay” that proved anything but short. As Manfred von Ardenne, a cyclotron designer, and his wife recounted, “With relatively light hearts, we left the children and everything else behind in Lichterfeld because we had gone for a two-week trip to the Soviet Union 'only to conclude a contract.' Those two weeks turned into ten years.” (Naimark, 1995, 210).””
