@the.buried.records: In the summer of 1945, American officers sat down with personnel files for more than 1,600 German scientists and quietly pasted new labels over anything connecting them to the Nazi Party. 📎 Among them was Wernher von Braun, whose rocket team had built the V2 missiles for Hitler's war machine. Washington decided their engineering knowledge was worth more than their record, and moved fast to bring them to American soil before the Soviets could. The mission got its name from something almost absurdly ordinary: the actual paperclips used to attach each scientist's falsified biography to their file. What was supposed to be a short term consulting arrangement quietly turned into permanent immigration, arranged through classified orders that stayed sealed for decades. Here's the detail that still gets us: some of these same scientists went on to help build the rockets that put Americans on the moon. We're curious what you think, does the good someone eventually does outweigh the record they arrived with? #OperationPaperclip #HiddenHistory #ColdWarSecrets #DeclassifiedHistory #TrueHistory

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Friday 18 September 2026 13:42:29 GMT