@josh @Einbrecht @blackjackson The thing is Josh, in 1945-50s people like Werner Von Braun were perceived as cleared of any war crimes by the Allied Occupation government in Germany. People like Doctor Mengele were not. If Mengele was caught he would be carted off to Israel for a gristly death like Eichmann.

There was a wave of Jewish -> German litigation in the 70s, where Jews began to come forward with eyewitness accounts of alleged Nazi war crimes, many against previously exonerated Germans like Von Braun, namely in his case that slave labour was used in German jet engine assembly plants, where a Polish Jew claimed Von Braun executed prisoners to motivate the prisoners.

What I'm trying to say: if you went back to 1950s America and asked people about Paperclip, they would be nonplussed, they would see it as a positive, where Anti-Communist Germans are serving the greater good by working with America, The notion that Paperclip was a scandal in any sense is a present day narrative. A false narrative.