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October 19, 2024 32 mins

”Operation Paperclip: How Nazi: Scientists Were Secretly Brought to America"

  • The controversial U.S. operation that recruited Nazi scientists after World War II. 


0:00 - WWII Comes to an end 

2:20 - Operation Lusty

6:05 - Operation Paperclip 

9:44 - The Nuremberg Trials

11:56 -  President Truman & The Paperclip Scientists

14:24 - V-Weapons 

16:08 - Chemical Weapons & Dr. Fredrick Hoffmann 

18:54 - Dr. Schreiber, Dr. Kurt Blome, 

20:13 - Heidelberg Scar & Mensur

23:00 - Other Paperclip Scientists 

25:15 - Werner von Braun

26:55 - Public Perception

29:32 - Werner von Braun’s Legacy

30:31 - Did we really need them? And Moral implications: 

32:26 - Outro

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