Operation Paperclip: How America Secretly Hired 1,600 Nazi Scientists After WW2

Añadido: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]1945, World War II just ended. The Nazis lost. America won. Or did they? While the world was celebrating victory, the United States government was quietly doing something nobody was supposed to know about. They were hiring the enemy.

[00:00:17]Over 1,600 Nazi scientists, men who built Hitler's weapons, men who used concentration camp prisoners as test subjects. America didn't arrest them.

[00:00:28]America didn't try them. America gave them new names, new houses, new jobs, and classified everything.

[00:00:37]They called it Operation Paperclip.

[00:00:40]Those same scientists built the rockets that sent Americans to the moon. The space program you grew up celebrating was built by the men your government told you were defeated. The files stayed classified for over 50 years. Not because it was dangerous, because it was embarrassing.

[00:00:58]They didn't bury the Nazis. They just changed their paperwork.