Book ID: CBB389750546

Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State (2018)

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Crim, Brian E. (Author)


Johns Hopkins University Press


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 245 pp.
Language: English

"Our Germans is a highly engaging history of one of the United States' most controversial intelligence operations during the early Cold War. Project Paperclip brought fifteen hundred German scientists and their dependents to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment and 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."--Provided by publisher.

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Authors & Contributors
O'Reagan, Douglas Michael
Weiss, Linda
Wilson, Mark R.
Alic, John A.
Gross, Rachel S.
Bill Yenne
Concepts
World War II
Military technology
Cold War
Military-Industrial Complex
Technology and war; technology and the military
Technology transfer
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Great Britain
France
Micronesia
Sweden
Institutions
New Deal (1933-1939)
United States. Army
United Nations
United States Air Force (USAF)
Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina
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