OPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT THE SPACE PROGRAM
Episode 116 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on Operation Paperclip — the classified US program that brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II, altered their files to conceal Nazi Party and SS affiliations, and built Wernher von Braun — an SS officer who personally recruited concentration camp prisoners for the Mittelwerk factory — into the public face of American space exploration.
The rocket that put Neil Armstrong on the Moon was designed by a man who used slave labor to build the weapon that bombed London.
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