Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America Free Audiobook Download by Annie Jacobsen


In Operation Paperclip, Annie Jacobsen tells the story of how twelve Nazi scientists and technicians were brought to America in the early 1940s and their impact on the modern world. These men had helped design the V-1 rocket, among other war weapons that put millions of civilians in harm's way.

The United States was only one of many nations that had to make difficult choices after the outbreak of World War II. One choice led to a secret operation code-named "Paperclip," which brought Nazi scientists to America under the guise of Operation Sunrise. Annie Jacobsen's latest book, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, weaves in important events from American and German history from 1939-1945.

The US government recruited and allowed thousands of Nazi scientists to immigrate to America during the war. The program was called "Operation Paperclip." The new Americans were given a clean slate in order to continue their work in developing germ weapons, rocket fuel, poison gas, and other deadly chemical agents.

Operation Paperclip was an intelligence operation during World War II in which the United States Army Air Forces, Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, and Office of Strategic Services recruited over 1,500 scientists, engineers, and other technical experts from Nazi Germany to work in the United States.

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America is a fascinating, sobering read about the role of American military science in creating the extremely controversial research and development program called Operation Paperclip. Starting during World War II with the Third Reich, when Adolf Hitler and his top scientists introduced their radical eugenics plan that called for "the elimination of any genetic defects among conquered peoples," Operation Paperclip was the American government's intentional effort to bring Nazi scientists over to America.

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America describes how American scientists and private companies came to benefit from the Nazi Party's medical experiments. In the last days of World War II, United States and Allied forces discovered the fate of hundreds of concentration camp prisoners- men, women, and children who were tortured and experimented on by Hitler's doctors. Operation Paperclip is a secret intelligence program that secretly brought these scientists to America for interrogation under Project Paperclip. They were able to use their expertise for top secret military programs in America during WWII.

Published Date 2014-02-11
Duration 19 hours 29 minutes
Author Annie Jacobsen
Narrated Annie Jacobsen
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Abridged No
Is It Free? 30-days Free
Category Science & Technology
Parent Category General, Military

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