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#OtD 3 Sep 1945 President Harry Truman approved and expanded Operation Paperclip, a secret plan to bring over 1500 Nazi scientists and war criminals to live in the US where they worked on the space program as well as biological and chemical weapons https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10255/operation-paperclip?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

RussianDeepStateSock

@workingclasshistory there is a good book on this "The Nazis Next Door"

https://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361427276/how-thousands-of-nazis-were-rewarded-with-life-in-the-u-s

3mo

RussianDeepStateSock

@workingclasshistory congress recently ruled that it's OK for congressional funds and weapons to fall into the hands of nazis, specifically those in the Azov battalion in Ukraine.

https://scheerpost.com/2024/06/18/us-lifts-ban-on-weapons-to-ukraines-nazi-azov-battalion/

3mo

66gardeners

@workingclasshistory
Their descendants poison our society.

Else Cederborg

Jeramee

America didn't defeat the Nazis: it hired them as subcontractors.

3mo