Then again, one, whose wartime Berlin medical institute conducted experiments on epileptic children, is also credited with research that was crucial in allowing American astronauts to survive outer space. Fifteen were dedicated Nazi Party members six had even stood trial at Nuremberg, and one was convicted of mass murder. Her 21 men were not apolitical technocrats. (In the Pacific theatre, American intelligence agencies had been equally busy sheltering Japanese biological warfare specialists from prosecution.) By following 21 of Hitler’s technologists through a trail of no-longer-secret reports, including postwar interrogation accounts and private papers provided by the American descendants of those German scientists, Jacobsen assembles an unsettling portrait of what was gained, and at what cost, by Operation Paperclip.
employed more than 1,600 of its former German enemies.
By 1952, the year a secret American intelligence committee fingered as the most likely date for “total war” with the U.S.S.R., the U.S. It’s been known for decades that a considerable proportion of the Cold War’s cutting-edge technology contests-from the space race to nuclear weapons development-turned on which side, Soviet or American, did better out of its share of the Second World War’s human booty, the scientific aces of the Third Reich. government embarked on a covert operation to recruit and employ Nazi scientists in the years following World War II in an effort to prevent their knowledge and expertise from falling into the hands of the Soviet Union.Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America Object Details Author Jacobsen, Annie Contents The war and the weapons - Destruction - The hunters and the hunted - Liberation - The captured and their interrogators - Harnessing the chariot of destruction - Hitler's doctors - Black, white and gray - Hitler's chemists - Hired or hanged - The ticking clock - Total war of apocalyptic proportions - Science at any price - Strange judgment - Chemical menace - Headless monster - Hall of mirrors - Downfall - Truth serum - In the dark shadows - Limelight - Legacy - What lasts? Summary Details how the U.S. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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