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We rate this claim TRUE because it is supported by our research. Operation Paperclip was a secret initiative launched by the U.S. government to recruit German engineers, doctors, physicists, chemists and other scientific experts for U.S. technological advancement, especially in anticipation of the Cold War. Many recruited German scientists did work for NASA and various other government entities. They were not held responsible for their war crimes.
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Wernher von Braun, a rocket engineer, was instrumental in developing the first U.S. ballistic missile, the Redstone, and later the Saturn V rocket while serving as director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. As a Nazi ideologue and member of the SS, he traveled to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he “handpicked slaves to work for him as laborers,” said Jacobsen in a 2014 interview with NPR.
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Afraid of copyright or I would have posted more.
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STARLIT—
This is troubling to say the least. I was guessing but perhaps the Operation Paperclip is much much more envolved. I makes me sick at my stomach. Traitor everywhere.
“Fact check: Nazi scientists were brought to work for U.S. through Operation Paperclip”
I posted about this operation on this thread just days ago.