The Nazis recruited to win the Cold War - Brian Crim

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Published 2024-04-16
Dig into Operation Paperclip, a secret intelligence program which brought scientists from Nazi Germany to the US after WWII.

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In May of 1945 the Third Reich was in chaos. Adolf Hitler was dead and German surrender was imminent. But while World War II was almost over, a new war was brewing. And the US was eager to recruit the smartest minds in Germany before the Soviets got the chance— regardless of their affiliation with the Nazis. This became known as Operation Paperclip. Brian Crim digs into the clandestine campaign.

Lesson by Brian Crim, directed by Jeff Le Bars, JetPropulsion.space.

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All Comments (21)
  • @Vaishino
    "If the rockets go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun.
  • @ghostderazgriz
    What the heck this video is exceptional. Script, animation, story board. You guys really out did yourselves with this one.
  • This was also the case for Japanese scientists who were part of unit 731, a concentration camp in China that the Japanese used to commit unspeakably depraved human experiments on live civilians. The scientists were offered amnesty by the US, in exchange for their research on biological warfare and medicine, even though these experiments were wildly unscientific and had come at the expense of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.
  • This is one of the finest works of TED-Ed! The animation at the end along with narration is hypnotic istg
  • @modkip25
    It's messed up. Their families got a second chance at life, while the families they helped destroy did not.
  • "History is a set of lies we have agreed upon." -Napoleon Bonaparte
  • @whatsup3519
    Animation was like smooth butter. Love it❤. Well done team ted ed.
  • @ivanmendez6422
    Heck of a video!!! The animations are insane! It perfectly captures the strategic maneuvering of the whole "recruiting talent" situation, like a real-life chess game, just capturing pieces.
  • @mateochavez8455
    They weren't just brought into NASA, but NATO and UN leadership as well
  • @Shinzon23
    This is going to be used in schools, I can feel it
  • @gnuffe7778
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  • @mekasa6721
    I love how the U.S government throws human rights violations and Antisemitism out the window for its interests.
  • Yet another masterpiece by Jet Propulsion, loved their animation in the corruption video and yet here we are looking at YET another masterpiece!
  • @fbmw98
    this is the best ted ed animation style i've seen. please do more.
  • @Raziel312
    When you dangle something they want badly enough, a human will twist their most sacred principles into a pretzel in order to justify reaching out and taking it. So what else is new?