They teach people about Paperclip to whitewash the post-war collaboration with those goons cuz "what, it's just a few technical experts, no biggie". Meanwhile, look at the FRG's politicians, military, intelligence, corporations, NATO, EU officials....
I've had libs argue to me that the only option was to let Nazi officers continue in command of West German armed forces, because there just was no other way to keep the army ready against those dastardly evil Soviets, and there weren't enough qualified non-Nazis to take the reins
Yeah Operation Bloodstone is far worse than Operation Paperclip and hardly anyone knows about it.
This would work very well with the Isildur and Elrond at mount doom meme format.
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Lol I'd actually made that after posting this to use later
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The USSR also used Nazi scientists. It would be a waste to get rid of them without siphoning their knowledge first. The difference is that the Soviets didn’t create a legacy for those scientists. They were forced to contribute to rocketry and either shot or told to fuck off back to Germany and live in obscurity forever. Russian students didn’t open up their textbooks and see Dr. Otto von Duffenmurdër-Hirohito being praised as a master of propulsion.
Let's not pretend that Operation Osoaviakhim didn't exist either though.
Those people were quietly disappeared as their purpose was served, the US' West German puppet state had more Nazi party members in many agencies, notably the "Justice" agency responsible for prosecuting or protecting them.
- https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/1011/Report-Germany-s-post-World-War-II-government-was-full-of-Nazis
From 1949 to 1973, 90 of the 170 leading lawyers and judges in the then-West German Justice Ministry had been members of the Nazi Party.
Of those 90 officials, 34 had been members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Nazi Party paramilitaries who aided Hitler's rise and took part in Kristallnacht, a night of violence that is believed to have left 91 Jewish people dead.
- https://www.businessinsider.com/former-nazi-officials-in-germany-post-world-war-ii-government-2016-10?op=1
Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161011184354/https://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2016/10/10/More-Nazis-in-German-justice-department-after-WWII-than-during-Third-Reich-study
Those people were quietly disappeared as their purpose was served
Know of any sources on that specifically? Don't doubt it but it would be useful
I know I've read some Parenti that gets into it a bit, I'll take a look. Most were not literally executed, but the Soviets denied scientists acknowledgement for work, often they had as little knowledge of what they were really working on as possible (which may have hindered their contributions). But the only allegations attributing specific individuals their contributions that I've found before the collapse of the USSR appear in Western language sources, usually of those who were seemingly useful long enough or non-ideological enough to be sent home, and of those really just those that made their way to West Germany (and often ultimately the US) or were close to those that did.
I have my critiques of Operation Osoaviakhim, but the crucial differences still remains that with the Soviets those monsters were used and discarded, in the west they were used and then elevated to positions of power
Fully 77 percent of senior ministry officials in 1957 were former members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, a higher proportion even than during the 1933-45 Third Reich, the study found.
The Soviets didn't excute enough nazis, but they never messed up this bad
