Annie jacobsen paperclip5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Erich Traub, sent on a mission by Heinrich Himmler, smuggled into Germany a strain of rinderpest virus, so potent its storage was banned across Europe.Īfter the war, Jacobsen's book says, he smuggled vials with potent animal diseases from East Germany into West Germany and then arranged to sell some of his dastardly potions. ![]() ![]() Some of the brightest and most famous of these scientists were earlier involved in organizing slave labour, running medical tests they knew would kill prisoners, and developing weapons of mass destruction, including horrific poisons and diseases.įor example, Wernher von Braun, lauded as a brilliant space engineer and a man who helped the Americans land a man on the moon, was a Nazi who was decorated personally by Adolf Hitler, chancellor of Germany, for running a rocket-production factory manned by prisoners from concentration camps.ĭr. author Annie Jacobsen explains, that's because the Americans invited about 600 scientists who had toiled on behalf of the Nazis into their own defence-department research and development programs after the war. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie Jacobsen, (Little, Brown, 575 pages, hardcover, $33 hardcover, $14.99 Kobo/Kindle) - Sixty years after Second World War, the Nazi mass murders committed by scientists remain secrets hidden in U.S. ![]()
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