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I actually just looked it up and it seems it "could" be interpreted that way because the Nazi German space agency decided to move to America to get positions at NASA and they were a huge part of NASA's team for the moon and the launch of the Saturn rockets for the Apollo Lunar Program.
After world war 2, a group of German rocket scientists led by Wernher von Braun surrendered to the US army. They were taken back to the US and put to work designing missiles for nuclear weapon delivery systems. Von braun pointed out that some of the missile systems they were working on could be used to launch satellites, but until the Russians succeeded in launching the first satellite President Eisenhower refused to let them try.
The national origin of the scientists is irrelevant as they worked for the US at that point.