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

Question

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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Answer 1

A huge aspect of capturing an enemy production source was to deprive the enemy of it. The rest was secondary. Any ancillary production you could get from it was a bonus.