Editing Gernot Zippe (section)

===In Russia===
During the [[World War II]], Zippe was captured by the [[Red Army]] and held in [[Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union|Soviet custody]] in Prague until 1946 when the Soviet intelligence, the  [[Narodny Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del|NKVD]], learned of his technical background and moved him to [[Russia]] to work on the [[isotope separation]] for the feasibility of the weapon-grade uranium.{{rp|55|58}}<ref name="Harvard University Press, Bernstein, 2014"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/zippe.pdf| title=The problem of Uranium Isotope Separation by Means of Ultracentrifuge in the USSR| accessdate=2010-04-04| publisher= [[Central Intelligence Agency]]| date=1957-10-08}}</ref> Zippe who had never worked on a centrifuge before took over the project but he worked [[Max Steenbeck]] on the feasibility of the machine with the provided Russian intelligence on the works of American [[Jesse Beams]] from the [[Manhattan Project]].{{rp|59}}<ref name="Harvard University Press, Bernstein, 2014"/> The project was carried out at the Institute A in Sukhumi and was being overseen by German physicist, [[Manfred von Ardenne]], and directed by another German scientist [[Max Steenbeck]], whose theoretical achievements Zippe used to successful deployment in 1950.{{rp|59}}<ref name="Harvard University Press, Bernstein, 2014"/>

In 1952, Zippe was transferred to [[Saint Petersburg]] to continue his work on the [[Thermal efficiency|efficiency]] with the Russian scientists, which he stayed until 1954.{{rp|60–61}}<ref name="Harvard University Press, Bernstein, 2014"/> It was an standard practice by the captured German scientists to quarantine if they had work on the [[Soviet atomic bomb project|Soviet program of nuclear weapons]], which Zippe did while being interned in transition camp in [[Kyiv]].{{rp|64}}