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Nazis didn't actually know that Operation Paperclip would happen yet at the time, but they did massively prefer surrendering to the western allies. Germans had built up such a fear of the Red Army (largely due to their own racism and propaganda) that civilians committed suicide en masse.
In Demmin where the Wehrmacht and police blew up bridges and deliberately trapped citizens in the town, people began randomly killing others and then themselves in the street and families began drowning themselves in the river. There are accounts from some Red Army soldiers that dove in and tried to save children whose parents were drowning them.
They might not have known for sure but enough of them stashed bargaining chips in mine shafts and other hidey-holes that they must've had some idea that the western allies would be open to some form of partnership
They took Better dead than Red really seriously.
Piglet is briefed by the CIA before being shipped off to the School of the Americas where he will teach torture interrogation techniques to Central American contras under the assumed identity Porky Pig. Despite numerous cosmetic surgeries, Piglet could never get rid of his stutter.