This Cold War-era documentary explores the lesser-known history of Operation Paperclip — the U.S. program that brought former Nazi engineers, including Wernher von Braun, into the early American space effort.
Topics covered include:
The origins of the V-2 rocket program
Von Braun’s involvement with the SS
How Nazi technology helped land Americans on the Moon
The ethical complexity behind a scientific milestone
🎥 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY0JMjJp-yc
No politics, just history and science. Let me know what you think.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t think it’s lesser-known at all. It’s very very well known, but still problematic.
It wasn’t ALL Nazi’s though. There were plenty of German scientists who were anti-Nazi, displaced by the war, and included in Operation Paperclip. The fact that some were Nazi’s, and some were even SS (insane) is the real problem.