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Project Paperclip and the National Security State
Sofort lieferbar | Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar I
Artikel-Nr:
9781421438184
Veröffentl:
2020
Erscheinungsdatum:
18.02.2020
Seiten:
264
Autor:
Brian E Crim
Gewicht:
388 g
Format:
227x152x19 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Brian E. Crim is a professor of history at the University of Lynchburg. He is the author of Antisemitism in the German Military Community and the Jewish Response, 1914-1938 and the editor of Class of '31: A German-Jewish Émigré's Journey across Defeated Germany.
Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other "wonder weapons" for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state.