Friday, May 31, 2024

OPERATION PAPERCLIP- Annie Jacobsen


 






















An interesting read.  The lengths the U.S went to to secure Nazi chemists and rocket scientists was amazing as well as obscene.  A large number of the Nazi's that the U.S gave a new life to should have been hanged, but expediency won the day and they were given the key to a new life.

The most ridiculous thing I noticed was at the same time they were saving these Nazi's they were executing the Rosenbergs for spying.  Politics sure are grand.

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