Our Germans : Project Paperclip and the national security state /

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"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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crim, Brian E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Temas:
1900-1999
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.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Technologie.
Exode des cerveaux > Allemagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Nazis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Recherche militaire > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Américains d'origine allemande > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Western.
Brain drain.
German Americans.
Intelligence service.
Military research.
Nazis.
Scientists > Recruiting.
Technology.
War criminals.
Germany.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 245 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781421424408
1421424401

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