The Nazi Scientists Who Built America's Space Rockets

Ripley's Believe It or Notcast

After the War in Europe ended with the fall of Berlin, allied nations began using any means necessary to bring on Nazi scientists to enhance their own military technology.

This week on the Notcast, we explore Operation Paperclip, a covert project to bring former Nazi scientists that could have been tried for war crimes to the U.S. in order to build America's space powers.

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