Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 days agoThere are probably a lot of Russians who fled to Germany after WWII only to end up in Huntsville, Al with a 9 year gap in their resume starting in 1941..., right?sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square41linkfedilinkarrow-up1362file-text
arrow-up1362imageThere are probably a lot of Russians who fled to Germany after WWII only to end up in Huntsville, Al with a 9 year gap in their resume starting in 1941..., right?sh.itjust.worksBasic Glitch@sh.itjust.works to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-27 days agomessage-square41linkfedilinkfile-text
https://toad.social/@PimentoMori/115108786623074186 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_von_Spakovsky http://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2175
minus-squareCorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 days ago Operation Paperclip So the idea of apolitical nazi scientists just working on rockets is kinda not true when you look closer, but the real meat is Operation Bloodstone, where nazi officers were brought over snd given immunity to help run anticommunist programs.
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 days agoI went to Paperclip because of the connection to Huntsville specifically with Redstone and NASA.
minus-squareCorn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoOh, I didn’t know about the Huntsville connection.
So the idea of apolitical nazi scientists just working on rockets is kinda not true when you look closer, but the real meat is Operation Bloodstone, where nazi officers were brought over snd given immunity to help run anticommunist programs.
I went to Paperclip because of the connection to Huntsville specifically with Redstone and NASA.
Oh, I didn’t know about the Huntsville connection.