An excellent narrator can bring even turgid text to life, this narrator made listening more of a chore. The caveats are that whilst the narrator has a very clear voice, it lacks emotion and comes across as rather robotic. It also gives a biography of prominent Nazi scientists who were given clemency to accelerate technological progress in the USA. I particularly enjoyed learning more about the history of the drug Thalidomide. This is important as far too few people are aware of this dark history. The major reason to recommend this audiobook is that it details the involvement of major German corporations in human rights abuses prior to and throughout WW2.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? In this definitive, controversial look at one of America's most strategic, and disturbing, government programs, Jacobsen shows just how dark government can get in the name of national security. Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich's ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the 20th century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the US Space Program. Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler's scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds.
The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs ( The Boston Globe), from the New York Times best-selling author of Area 51.
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