| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Aristocracy of evil : the paperclippers and Nazi science -- Implements of progress : the military's case for Paperclip -- Conscientious objectors : the State Department and opposition to Project Paperclip -- Germans : German scientists, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. intelligence community -- Paperclip vindicated : German scientists and the maturation of the national security state -- Epilogue. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed December 1, 2017). |
| Subject |
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Technology.
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Brain drain -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Scientists -- Recruiting -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Scientists -- Recruiting -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nazis -- History -- 20th century.
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War criminals -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
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Intelligence service -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Military research -- History -- 20th century.
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German Americans -- History -- 20th century.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Brain drain. (OCoLC)fst00837756
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German Americans. (OCoLC)fst00941308
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Intelligence service. (OCoLC)fst00975848
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Military research. (OCoLC)fst01021439
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Nazis. (OCoLC)fst01035219
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Scientists -- Recruiting.
(OCoLC)fst01108925
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Technology. (OCoLC)fst01145078
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War criminals. (OCoLC)fst01170469
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Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Title |
Project Paperclip and the national security state |
| ISBN |
9781421424408 (electronic bk.) |
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1421424401 (electronic bk.) |
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1421424401 (electronic) |
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9781421424392 |
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1421424398 |
