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Item Information       More by this author     Crim, Brian E., author.     Subjects     National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology.     Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.     Scientists -- Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.     Scientists -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Nazis -- History -- 20th century.     War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.     Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Military research -- History -- 20th century.     German Americans -- History -- 20th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Crim, Brian E., author.       by title:      Our Germans : Projec...         MARC Display

Our Germans : Project Paperclip and the national security state / Brian E. Crim. by Crim, Brian E., author. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. Subjects National security -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology.   Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.   Scientists -- Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.   Scientists -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Nazis -- History -- 20th century.   War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.   Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Military research -- History -- 20th century.   German Americans -- History -- 20th century. Description:  xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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.   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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