Operation Paperclip: The US Plan for German Scientists After World War II

During Operation Paperclip the United States brought German scientists to America do work for them. Were these scientists like Wernher von Braun, Walter Schreiber and Kurt H. Debus not political? Can they be seen as 'good Germans'? Regarding their work on the V-2 rockets and the slave labour involved it's debatable if these German scientists were innocent. They worked on the Wonder Weapons (Wunderwaffe) the Germans hoped to win the Second World War. When that war was over the Cold War started and these scientists had to play an important role for the Americans... History Hustle presents: Operation Paperclip: The US Plan for German Scientists after World War II. SUPPORT ME ON PATREON ► https://www.patreon.com/historyhustler SUBSCRIBE ► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYLJ8hULBTjTTmJZGL-dq-A?sub_confirmation=1 INSTAGRAM ► https://www.instagram.com/historyhustle FACEBOOK ► https://www.facebook.com/historyhustler TWITTER ► https://twitter.com/HustleHistory SOURCE Operation Paperclip. The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America (Annie Jacobsen). IMAGES Images from commons.wikimedia.org. VIDEO Video material from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIiz6Zp8wwU Operation Paperclip - German Scientists At Wright Field (1946) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4Df-N10KH4 Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977) "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use." MUSIC "Exciting Trailer" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Division" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ SOUNDS Freesound.org. Wanna join forces and do a collaboration? Send me an email at: historyhustle@gmail.com