S1E25 - Operation Paperclip: The Scientists, The Secrets, and The Space Race

In the final days of World War II, as Allied troops liberated concentration camps, a secret American team was on a different mission: to salvage the very architects of the Nazi war machine. What do you do when the brains behind your enemy's terror weapons become the key to your own nation's future? Operation Paperclip was the controversial answer, a deal with the devil that would forever alter the balance of global power. This episode follows the hunt for hidden German scientists like Wernher von Braun, tracing their journey from developing V-2 rockets that rained fire on London to becoming...