- Trabisnikof
- Dec 24, 2005
-
|
is it just me, or does operation paperclip get brought up a lot on cspam/the internet?
it seems like the go-to example of america being evil nazi sympathizers, and it's sometimes presented as like a red pill fact that will open normies' eyes to the sins of the US. but:
- the scientists we grabbed during operation paperclip mostly went on to work in the civilian space program, which certainly had its flaws but which is mostly viewed positively by the american public
- the scientists were all nazis but they don't really have any eye-grabbing, headline-worthy crimes. von braun benefited from slave labor and probably turned a blind eye to the horrors of the camps. same story for a lot of operation paperclip guys. that's horrible, but not really special. i'm not an expert, so if there are really heinous guys who got brought over, i'm interested in hearing about them, but i've never heard of anybody like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bolschwing, who organized huge pogroms during ww2 and then worked for the CIA in the 50s
- the soviets grabbed scientists in the exact same way in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Osoaviakhim
honest question: is there truly horrible stuff that i've missed in operation paperclip? i hate nazis but i've never really understood why this event in particular gets so much attention
of course it is hard to find evidence of the worst offenders brought over via operation paperclip, because the programs they worked for in the usa the would be secret and the government didnt want to make public their previous war crimes.
but there are still some publicly known, like Hubertus Strughold, who was involved in human experimentation at Dachau and also suffocated some children to make them have seizures. he was sought as a war criminal by the US Army before getting scooped up in Paperclip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_Strughold
or Eric Traub who ran the Nazi bioweapons program and worked directly for Himmler. after Operation Paperclip he worked on the US bioweapons program.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Traub
Trabisnikof has issued a correction as of 01:29 on Jan 13, 2024
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2024 22:36
|
|
- Adbot
-
ADBOT LOVES YOU
|
|
#
¿
May 22, 2024 02:50
|
|