During WW2, when armies advancing through enemy territory captured enemy factories / oil refineries, how did this actually work in practice?

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Did they have their own scientists / specialists travelling in the rear who then try to figure out how to get the facility back online? I’m assuming here that the enemy workers have already fled and the facilities are empty.

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Oof, really dark question…

Some people staid behind, others were captured and forced to work in industry as concentration camp victims, and then of course there were the workers and engineers who collaborated with the nazis and were willing to offer their services.

And then in the reverse: after ww2 the soviets through the Allies and the un were able to force millions of German and other axis workers to pay reparations through labor rebuilding damaged areas and working in industry.

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