With Annie Jacobsen's OPERATION PAPERCLIP for the first time the enormity of the effort has been laid bare. She confronts us with the full extent of Paperclip's deal with the devil, and it's difficult to look away. Jacobsen's book allows us to explore these questions with the ultimate tool: hard evidence. One of iBooks' Top Ten Nonfiction Books of the Year. One of The Boston Globe's Best Books of 2014.
They were strong headed, stuber force under Hitler " "Anni has done lot of repurchase to document the German behaved in Second World War. Drawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators and with access to German archival documents (including papers made available to her by direct descendants of the Third Reich’s ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and lost dossiers discovered at the National Archives and Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into one of the most complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secrets of the twentieth century. The US government secretly decided that the value of these former Nazis’ knowledge outweighed their crimes and began a covert operation code-named Paperclip to allow them to work in the United States without the public’s full knowledge. In the chaos following World War II, some of the greatest spoils of Germany’s resources were the Third Reich’s scientific minds. The explosive, dark secrets behind America’s post–World War II science programs from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51
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