Operation Paperclip - COLD WAR SPECIAL
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Our series on the history of the Cold War period continues with a documentary on Operation Paperclip and this video will describe the early part of the Nuclear race in the post-War period and how the USA managed to use the German scientists to gain upper hand.
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Hey David, you speak like no you. Did you get cold?
Even though your history is pretty good, a lot of people feel that you guys ripped off Indy and The Great War team without making attribution. Even the title font is similar. You guys should at least acknowledge them.
Today's Enemies is Tomorrow's Allies,
As Yesterday's Allies became Today's Enemies.
Keith Kevelson this is a spin-off of ww1. Its made by the same people.
You are part of the timeghosthistory team right?
I mentioned Operation Paperclip to my astronomy teacher in high school and he denied that Nazis were brought here to work for NASA. Why is it still being denied in the 21st Century?
People can’t handle the truth
Yeah, it’s kind of sad and pathetic. No one seems to want to reconcile with the fact the V-2 rocket was the precursor to the further research that lead to other uses for rocketry.
Also, it sounds kind of sad in my opinion that these condemners seem to ignore the fact that there was a need to be ready to fight the Soviets.
Then again, they probably didn’t know that the Soviets were just as bad if not worse than the Nazis in many ways. Especially when it comes human rights and what not.
@@jtgd Soviets still got away with a lot of similar crimes though while the Nazis did not. Comes with ignoring the Hague Conventions because it was convenient for them and could be politicized as a 'dirty Imperial' policy.
@@Dornan77802 What about 20 million people that died because of US imperialism after ww2? What about agent orange? Uranium rich bombs that still contaminate some parts of Serbia?
your teacher is a jerk, that is why.
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department" say Wernher von Braun
But what if it falls on the same location from where it is launched
Von Braun: _____________
Hello! Are you there
🙄😳
you too may be a big hero
once you've learned to count backwards to zero...
Hanging the slowest workers daily was though
That is true, a real scientists for sure.
Remember he was on Disney
Can’t let the reds get the mind of Arnim Zola
Zola is one thing, but Totti was better.
What you saw on Winter Soldier and Infinity War is what happening today
CIA, Mossad and M16 = Real Life´s HYDRA
Thanos = Real life´s UN, bilderberg group: Agenda 2030
@@Charles-hy6gp MI6, not M16 lol
The new intro makes me: *SHOOK*
Do you mean "shocked"?
@@Thaumazo83 yeah
Eriq Affandi I like *shooked* better
It scarred me. Wait,
did you just read *scared? Ha. Cause that's what I said...
Or did eye?
The intro shooked me up.
Let's not forget about the Japanese Submersible Aircraft Carrier, another casualty of the cold war, which would end up being the precursor to Ballistic Missile Submarines.
The Russians put our [British] camera made by our German scientists and your [American] film made by your German scientists into their [Soviet] satellite made by their German scientists.
From the movie Ice Station Zebra.
I remember that scene!
My Grandfather, he passed in 2006, he was brought from Berlin to Oak Ridge TN for the Manhattan project as a part of paper clip he was one of the scientists it would not have worked without, to this day my family works at Y12, ORNL, and CERN
Was he a Nazi?
Oh,. My,.
I'm quite interested, how is it to be a relative of an ex-nazi?
I believe my grandparents were part of this, they were sent to Dayton Ohio, Lots more to the story. But as to Destiny asking whats it like to be a relative of an ex nazi,, Like we pick our ancestors.
And we thank them 🇺🇸
0:04 "It's Cold War time!" - "No, CIA/KGB, no!"
Awesome episode, extremely well done, congrats guys, way to go.
Mum about the imported Nazis into the CIA and FBI top.....
The German Kaiserreich invested amounts of money into it's education system, especially universities, which would seem absurdly high today. Even 20 years after the German economy had been cripppled, this was still paying off.
Think Rockefeller's
Interesting new format. Always try new things. Good work!
How many German scientists were recruited by the USA compared to the USSR?
Nice video
Way more, since germans excepted way better conditions in which they would be kept in US than in USSR. Pretty much, they were right.
TheWoodGook yeah, many German scientists actually focused on escaping into allied territory to be captured by them (even if they had no use for them and knew they would be executed) because of how horrible soviet pow conditions were.
@@jersood9059 The Soviets got hold of quite a few scientists, engineers and specialists. In October 1946 alone the Soviets deported something like 2,200 Germans to the Soviet Union in Operation Osoaviakhim. Otherwise, quite a few facilities were in what became E. Germany and Poland, like Peenemunde for rocketry, or the nerve gas production plants, etc. So other folks still around, as well as tooling and production facilities fell into their hands.
Each of the Allied recruited/captured around 1500 Scientists from all fields of research.
@George Thomas Nazi sympathizer? We can send some of Ukrainian Nazis to your neighborhood.
I actually have some family involvement in a small way.
My grandfather was a dairy farmer in Ontario (Candada) who organized a dairy during the great depression.
After WW2, with the help of a German immigrant (I have NO idea if this person was a Nazi, soldier, etc.) the dairy built a refrigerated delivery van. This was the FIRST of its kind in the entire country.
Will y’all talk about the Japanese Operation Paperclip. About how US forgave how the Japanese’s treated the POWs they would take for the information they collected. Talking about Unit 731
well, the US had no personal grudge against the Japanese, they were the ones who drove them into ww2 anyway ...
@Dark PePe I wrote "ww2", learn to read ...
regarding the 2nd sino-chinese war, it was the Kuwantung army's fault. the massacres where their desperate measure to terrify the chinese into surrendering, basically the equivalent of the american nuking ...
@@mohamedaboelenein7727 nope, the two are not even comparable. Where do you learn this stuff? Moron school?
@@adamdean5881 No I did not attend 'meircan schools ...
try to read history more objectively ...
Yeah but those were Chinese they were experimenting and so on not American POWS same with the camps in nazi Germany
Some random German: "What happened to all our old scientists?"
WE'RE ALL LIVING IN AMERIKA!!! AMERIKA!!!
ITS WUNDERBAR!!!
Savage! Spot on!
An equal amount were probably living in East Germany.
If you're trying to pronounce German names in German, then you need to pronounce V as F
He's American don't expect too much lol
And while we're at it: "von Braun" is pronounces "fonn brown", not "won bronn".
@@Damo2690 He is not american XD
oh , as in "vuckning" ?
Ja?
Who gives a fuck he’s a Nazi he can call him whatever he wants
I liked the new format, I did not like to see someone talking to the camera (yet your work has always been very well done, and always deserved the likes I gave), continue with this amazing work that you have been doing.
To the victor go the spoils..
For me the most interesting fact about paperclip is that despite the war and paperclip beeing a huge brain drain on germany, german science recuperated from this relatively fast after the war (except military science)
They still had the Professors who brought up those minds
The high-quality educational framework that was instituted under the Kaiser was still a thing in Germany.
Evil can be studied, perfected and utilized by trusted powers.
"Trusted" powers 😂🤣
It would be cool to have some more info on what the soviets were doing at this time as well. I saw you briefly mentioning them through the video, but yeah i'm interested not just what the west did regarding the scientists, as we already know a lot about it. How were nazi scientists treated in the ussr? how helpful were they to soviet programs? how important was capturing berlin to the soviets regarding nuclear technology?
Pr sure most of that info no longer exists and what does is in Russian
this channel appears to have a heavy pro-american imperialism bias, so i doubt they would do an episode like that lol
@@stayphrosty oh yeah cause controlling all your neighbors through communism isn't imperialidm
@@georgeptolemy7260 yeah its imperialism with communistic characteristics
lol
Best video yet from you fellas and I love the new intro, very spy like.
Please make a video regarding Professor Antony Sutton's work on Soviet-Western Technology Transfers. It's vital to understanding the nature of the Cold War.
It's fake
What about Operation Osoaviakhim? It's the Soviet version of Operation Paperclip.
Well one operation involving deportation of something like 2200 German specialists to the USSR, at once, in October of 1946. Quite different. Folks under Operation Overcast / Operation Paperclip were looking for long term contracts, bringing relatives over to the US, etc. in contrast ....
*whisper
Hail Hydra!!!
Also, what's with that intro? 😂
I do not know its kinda cursed
This eposode id aewsome . Great job guys
Quickly becoming one of my favourite channels
your channel is getting really good.
Really interesting episode!
Annie Jacobson has a book on Operation Paperclip. I haven't read it but I have read some of her other work and she is highly reputable when it comes to reporting on the world of espionage......
Shes thorough on her research.
This channel deserves more subscribers.
Nice work, as always
Wow. I love this channel
Great video man with the music almost like a movie
Had to rewatch this while watching the Hunters show. Gives great actual historical context.
Great graphics on this one.
Congratulations on your new sponsor 👍
Surprisingly interesting.
Well done!
Two minutes for a sponsor? They better be paying good!!! Almost fell asleep before the actual video started.
this is a great video
There’s an excellent series called ‘For All Mankind’ where the Soviets get to the Moon first, and while Von Braun wanted to get to the moon, he put his foot down on militarization by setting up a base there. In response, the government exposed him regarding all the slave labor that had been used in making his V-2, and was subsequently kicked out of NASA.
Great show!! Highly recommend it for anyone that enjoys cold-war/early space exploration. It's on Apple TV
What would NASA be without nazi's & people that believed in magic - Jack parson's rocket_engineer 🚀
They don't have enemies, they have interests.
Poor Magnus, always overshadowed by his older brothers Wernher and Sigismund. No one ever mentions Magnus.
Idk how but i have to mention this in history class.
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."?
Life lesson from von Braun, history will judge you positively so long as your talent outweighs your baggage.
Therefore, it is better to put in more effort to equip yourself to be an invaluable contributor of society than to virtue signal at every historical figure lmao.
Its just a continuation of might makes right and weakness is sin that is showed through out all of history.
Not much of a lesson, it’s not like u can just decide to become the world’s leading rocket scientist
@Guapo10292 lol that's a good point and not everyone can do that it takes a special mindset for that kind of stuff
Dude im in the middle of reading annie jacobsons book on this. Its pretty incredible!
What a intro!! 💎💎💎
Any similar program in Japan?
Is there a record of what the Soviets were able to get out of their German scientists? Future episode?
2:11 To cut to the chase.
"Former enemies " ? A tool cannot be your enemy.
Wow, that question mark really hates that quote. It just wants to back off.
@@ankorwatt5637 back off bitch
Sorry for late reply. I would like to hear more Soviet part of this story. What did Soviets manage to grab from Germany? Which scientists, working in which areas, which advances?
Crazy
No Stroheim quote in the comment section, I see. Looks like Jo Jo references are unlikely to get traction.
How about the similar approach by the US in Japan after the war? Like the Unit 731 members, was that also came under "paperclip"? Or was similar but different, specific for Japan? thanks.
I thought I know Operation Paperclip. But it seems that I didn't. I just thought it brought over captured rocket scientists. Nope just captured scientists. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.
It would be really cool if you could put out the video about the 1956 Hungarian uprising at October 23rd.
Interesting. So this thing between Soviet/Russia and the USA has been going on for a very very long time.
No, the Soviet Union ceased to exist in 1991, 30 years ago.
jesus americans really are ignorant. this is the first time you're hearing about the cold war?
Different players but the same "great game" that's been played for centuries.
Sort of...WEF sort of adopted ideals of both factions, vaxx as control, soviet and German segregation tech like " A hero works here!" Or Essentials vs Non Essentials.
Wernher von Braun was director of the V-2 development center at Peenemunde. The use of slave labor to mass produce the rocket at the distant Dora Mittelwerks facility was begun late in the war, having been imposed and presided over by a ruthless SS officer named Hans Kammler. Von Braun testified that only a person who'd lived under a dictatorship could fully appreciate how little he could do to remedy the situation. On one occasion he was reprimanded for devoting time to his lifelong interest in the possibility of space exploration instead of pursuing weapons research exclusively. Without his work on the Saturn family of rockets, it's unlikely we'd have landed men on the moon by now.
I thought we already landed men on the moon?
@@professorfinesser232 >**without his work on the Saturn family of rockets**, it's unlikely we'd have landed men on the moon by now.
reading comprehension.
How am I just now finding this channel?
It would be nice to know about the recruitment of scientist in japan after the war
Your soundtrack in the beginningreminds me of the androids arc from dragonball z
Braun's first name has the very unusual spelling "Wernher" with an H (pronunciation usually stays the same, though).
Very interesting episode! :)
????!!!
Crazy how similar is that guy to Adolpho 11:03
Netflix "Camp Confidential"
The intro is quite similar to the one Kaziproduction used as his Question intro for his justice league compilations.
Great episode but do one about operation bloodstone in one way its connected to paperclip.
American horror story New York City brought me here. Operation blacklist is another good topic to review.
Spitfires literally nudged V rockets outta the skies lmao
Thank you for the informative video. Here are some aspects which would deserve also to be mentioned. It was not only Soviet Union and USA who were racing to get a hold on scientists and advanced scientific and industrial facilities, it was also the United Kingdom and France. The Allies were competing one against each other so as to get their share of scientists. The atomic bombs produced by the UK and France (The first English Atomic bomb exploded in October 1952 and the first French Atomic bomb exploded on 13 February 1960), nuclear plants developments, jet planes both civilian (think of the Concorde) and military and submarines developed after WWII are evidence of this transfer of German scientific knowledge even if French and British scientific input is not to be denied. Competition between the Allies is demonstrated for instance when the Wartime UK-US nuclear collaboration was brought to an end by the 1946 US Energy Act (the McMahon Act). Many intelligence agents believed Germany had in fact developed an atomic bomb device they did not have the time to probe and use. Hence it was vital to retrieve it before the other powers. Something that always amused me is the twisted vision the public has about the race to Space., formulated by Von Braun's dream to launch a rocket to the moon. The race to space vision was useful to get public support for NASA, which required billions of investment. My point is, it would be naive to think you would spend billions to put a man on the moon. No, what really mattered was to use the German V2 technology to build bigger and bigger rockets, capable of...carrying an atomic warhead or several atomic warheads.
Also transfer of knowledge and expertise was not solely scientific. Interrogation techniques, counter insurrection, police, propaganda developed by Nazi Germany were also taught in many countries after the war. It is also worth mentioning that Arab and South American countries welcomed German scientists and others looking for refuge. The Argentinian Pulqui I was the first jet aircraft designed and built in Latin America and made its first flight on August 9, 1947. This influx of new weaponry explains Israel's Operation Damocles against German scientists in Egypt.
Last but not least, in your video, it would have been really nice to have a non exhaustive list of all the devices built after WW II from this "source" of technology.
Question: was there a similar operation in Japan?
I am from Leverkusen🤯
Tach Nachbar aus Bergisch Gladbach 👋🏼😄
Do a video on U Thant 3rd UN secretary general
The guy opening the doors legs lol
Can you do the vietnam war sine this war part of the cold war too ?
I am sure they will do it (they have expressed it). The channel is about Cold War and Vietnam was important theatre of that.
Possibly one the greatest Intellectual-thefts in modern history!?!??!
To say that von Braun employed slave labor is a bit of a generalization. He didn't have a say what form the labor came in, and often complained that slave labor resulted in poor production quality.
Should do a special on the bonus in biologicals we(USA) got for granting immunity to Unit 731.
or in general the crimes on korea by the usa war crime machine & its local kronies ( carpet bombing, mass murders, biowarfare )
Wunderwaffe is singular.. Means, only 1 weapon.. And I think it was the Messerschmitt (?)
intro 2 spoopy 4 me.. is it halloween already?
Dint forgot unit 731
We've had laser cannons & hover technology since 1945
Yes. And internet ideals since the 50s, and Net for the feds, in the 80s.
Operation Paperclip gave birth to Hydra.
Just sayin'.
Was the introduction narrated by a different person?
I received a cold war certificate for serving during the cold war. They never made an actual military decoration for cold war service.
paperclip also had an economic side to it: The USA stole thousands of german industrial patents at the end of the war (germany was still a leading nation in non military industrial fields as well)
I'm not sure what you mean by stole in regards to patents?
Germany had the largest Institution for the Application of Interlectuell Property (Patent Amt) in Berlin, it's managed Concepts of new Technology or Scientific Archivments developed in Germany.
Through the program "JSO 1067" the US wanted to transfer all this knowledge to microfilm, they succeeded in part (about 15km of Microfilm), but it was too much Information to transfer it all, and before the Marshall Plan begins, they focused on the transfer of Knowledge of Industries, Research and Science in which the US were lacking way behind.
For example: Rockets and Jet Turbines, Chemicals, Processing Materials, Medicine and so forth.
Allen Dulles and General William Donovon recruited General Rinehard Gehlen of the Waffen SS and 500 of his officers, to found the CIA. He later became the Chief of the West Germany Intelligence service and he remained in his post until retirement in. 1968.
The guy on the bottom left of the last picture looks a lot like mr moustache
Friederich Steiner
but why was david's sexy face omitted from this episode
Alex 7
"The V-2 rocket....proved perfect for demoralizing enemy populations because of sheer helplessness." But, that didn't happen. All those V-2s sent to London that killed thousands of people and which were impossible to stop, yet British morale never broke.
I don't think the V2 was ever actually used.
@@rafaelrmaier ….Uh, yes it was.
@@creatoruser736 just looked It up, you're right. My mistake :)
Part of that was the fact that britain put a HUGE stranglehold on press about the V2 leaking.
@@sol2544 don't forget us Brits and the secret service had a man named Andy Chapman who was a 'triple' agent :) actually he was feeding duff telemetry data back to the Germans once they fired off their V2's towards England, he would radio back codes saying "rocket hit target" ... when in reality many rockets hit the southern counties and not the capitol.
Von Braun is pronounced Fon Brown (not Brawn)
What would BJ Blazgowicz think about this?
*Muderous rage intensifies*
Ooh new opening? or is this just because it's a special?
So Nazis took us to the moon? That's interesting.
Yes but no. Mostly no
@Mr. Spetznaz Most lead engineers and scientists of the program were former Nazis though
Most of the Saturn Rockets Technology still based on the V2 Rocket, the Space Programs of the US and the Soviets are founded on that knowledge and technology.
Just mention: The V2 Rocket was the first "Man Made Object" in Space.
@@troyphillips8027 stop the 🧢
actually no, von braun' space missions to land men on the moon was to make you believe u live on a spinning water ball
As it has been said by WC
‘We killed the wrong Pig.’
government refer paperclip 1970 - I saw a trail of paperclips on me outside one day.
Von Braun aka FREDERICK STEINER
anyone hear of dr robert goddard?? he was doing rocket research here in the US in the 20s but government had no interest in funding him..could have been different.
Doitsu no kagaku wa sekai ichi!