I don’t know about you, but my entire childhood I was taught that America is the gatekeeper of freedom, justice, and equality. From front to back, my history books were comprised of stories that cast a positive light on the United States. And possibly no greater account of this hero’s narrative was more compelling than that of the United States’ contribution to World War 2.

You know the story: The evil Nazi regime was on a path towards world domination, and just as all hope seemed to be lost… our hero (the United States) swooped in and saved the day.

But what if this stories’ heroic protagonist wasn’t actually benevolent?

And what if our hero became everything that it swore to defeat?

…what if I told you the Nazi regime was never destroyed… it just moved to America?

Peering Down the Rabbit Hole

Now, now, I know what you must be thinking. “Either this dude smokes wet, or he spent way too much time listening to Alex Jones.”

Unfortunately for you, I don’t fit either of those admittedly hilarious stereotypes. On the contrary, I’m just someone who’s familiar with Wikipedia and thoroughly enjoys challenging mainstream narratives.

And what do I mean by that? Take a look for yourself – Wikipedia explains it all under their little-known page on Operation Paperclip.

With a brief scan, here’s what you’ll get:

At the end of WW2, the U.S. plotted to recruit Nazi scientists, engineers, and military leaders in an effort to outperform the Soviets, further U.S. technological and medical research, and get to space. This was all done under the authority of President Truman, and over 1,500 formerly dedicated Nazi members and leaders were taken to America to live and work in the U.S. under the protection of the U.S. government.

Crazy, right?

Nevertheless, Wikipedia is far from an authoritative source, so I only point it out to show that the existence of such an operation is not a “conspiracy theory.” It’s an objective fact of history.

But how deep does this rabbit hole really go?

Adoption Day

To fully understand the implications of Operation Paperclip, we not only need to understand what happened. We need to understand who was involved. To begin, here’s a list of the most notable Nazi’s the US government accepted:

WALTER SCHIEBER

Walter Schieber was a critical player in the Nazi’s wartime production. His prewar experience in textile manufacturing made him immensely useful to the Nazis, and in 1943, Hitler awarded him with the War Merit Cross.

After the war, Schieber caught the eye of Charles Loucks, a brigadier general with the US Army Chemical Corps. Loucks was assigned to the German town of Heidelberg to work on the development of nerve agents like tabun and sarin gas. Rather than being repelled by Schieber’s past, Loucks was drawn to this Nazi war criminal for his close connections with Heinrich Himmler and his intimate knowledge of the gases used by the Nazi’s during the war.

Schieber worked for the Chemical Corps for 10 years and later became an asset of the CIA. Since he was useful to the American government, Schieber was never prosecuted for his war crimes. In fact, he played a pivotal role in the development of the sarin gas that has subsequently been used by the US military.

HUBERTUS STRUGHOLD

Known as the “Father of Space Medicine,” Hubertus Strughold served the United States Air Force and NASA in the development of many principles of medical care in space that are still in practice today. For years, the Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA) gave an annual award named after Strughold to prominent contributors in the field of space medicine. But when his suspicious connections to Nazi war criminals came to light, AsMA struck Strughold’s name from the award.

Throughout his long career as a respected scientist in the United States, Strughold fervently denied any knowledge of the war crimes committed by the Nazis. However, he was implicated during the Nuremberg trials as having involvement with the atrocities committed at Dachau, and he spoke in detail at a Nazi conference in 1942 about the infamous “cold” experiments.

Beloved by his colleagues and students, many found it hard to believe that Strughold had lied about his involvement in Nazi human experimentation. But the evidence suggests that Strughold’s expertise in keeping people alive in space was derived at least in part from his intimate knowledge of just how much the human body can endure under extreme stress.

KURT BLOME

Purportedly, Dr. Kurt Blome was Hitler’s head of cancer research. But in reality, he was in charge of the development of Nazi biological warfare capabilities.

Blome stood trial at Nuremberg for performing euthanasia and conducting human experimentation, but he was acquitted due to the intervention of the American military. The United States government wanted to expand on Blome’s intimate knowledge of human biological weaknesses to create even deadlier nerve agents.

Blome’s US Army Chemical Corps personnel file makes no mention of his involvement in human experimentation. He lived out the rest of his life in West Germany working on secret projects for the American government and remained active in the right-wing Germany Party until his death in 1969.

ARTHUR RUDOLPH

When Arthur Rudolph was brought into the United States in 1947 as part of Operation Paperclip, he was noted to be an “ardent Nazi,” but all mention of his war crimes was omitted from official reports. However, documents from two years later confirm that Rudolph had been designated as a war criminal by Allied officials.

In 1961, Arthur Rudolph joined fellow Nazi Wernher von Braun at NASA to design the Saturn V rocket. Without Rudolph’s rocketry genius, the Apollo project would never have come to be.

Though the American government was undoubtedly grateful for his service, the Justice Department charged Rudolph in 1984 with working thousands of slaves to death while overseeing the development of the V-2 rocket during World War II. Rather than face charges, Rudolph agreed to turn in his American citizenry and leave the country.

WERNHER VON BRAUN

As foreshadowed earlier, Wernher von Braun is arguably the most famous Nazi to grace (sarcasm) American soil.

Von Braun was quickly recognized by Nazi authorities as being a physics and engineering genius. His potent charisma and visionary prowess made him the perfect candidate for organizing large-scale production operations, such as the development of the V-2 rocket. At age 25, von Braun was in charge of a team of 400 people. By the time he was 30, his team had swelled to 5,000.

During the war, Wernher von Braun visited the slave factory at Mittelwerk at least a dozen times. On one occasion, he toured the abysmal sleeping quarters for the forced laborers. Yet, during his tenure in the American space program, he did his best to distance himself from the atrocities committed by the Nazis by claiming there was nothing that he could have done to help.

Fully aware that hundreds of slaves were dying to bring his dreams to life, von Braun still feverishly dedicated himself day and night to the development of the V-2 rocket. Without von Braun, it’s doubtful that the Saturn V rocket would have ever seen the light of day. But because of von Braun, endless ranks of forced laborers toiled and died.

REINHARD GEHLEN

Gehlen (left)

Reinhard Gehlen was a Major General in the German army, a close confidant of Hitler, and head of the German Army Intelligence force on the Eastern Front. Near the closing of the war, the US Office of Strategic Services (which later became the CIA) found that Gehlen’s knowledge of the Soviets was so important that not only did they let him keep his job, he was able to maintain a vast majority of his infrastructure.

What became known as the Gehlen organization functioned as a semi-autonomous intelligence unit for the United States and West Berlin, and employed over 100 former Gestapo and SS officers. The organization grew as big as 4,000 by the end of 1949.

“The Gehlen Organization was the one group that did have networks inside Eastern Europe, and that is why we hired them… Hiring Gehlen was the biggest mistake the US ever made. Our allies said, ‘You are putting Nazis at the senior levels of your intelligence’, and they were right. The Gehlen organization was the primary source of intelligence that claimed that ‘The Soviets were about to attack West Germany'” – Victor Marchetti, CIA Veteran and former Chief of Soviet Strategic War Plans



Moving Along…

While these Nazi’s are arguably the most notable, other names such as Kurt Debus, Hermann Oberth, Walter Dornberger, Dieter Grau, and Magnus von Braun are worth researching as well.

But if you managed to bear with me this long, you’ve likely already begun to see how twisted our history books really are. The implications make quite an uncomfortable reality.

Consider this: At the end of the war, the Office of Strategic Services was a small organization of 13,000 members, and the Gehlen organization consisted of at least 4,000 members by the year 1949. Can we actually deduce that United States intelligence absorbed the Nazi infrastructure without considering how much of an influence it would have on American institutions?

To put things in perspective, the CIA superseded the OSS in 1947. With such an intimate relationship between Nazi and American intelligence, the Nazi’s undoubtedly had a big hand in the creation and development of the CIA. And if you needed any further evidence, even the New York Times admitted to it.

“Historians who have studied the documents made public so far have said that at least five associates of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, the architect of Hitler’s campaign to exterminate Jews, had worked for the CIA.” – New York Times (January 30, 2004)

And what about the beginning of NASA and the US space program? WW2 ended in 1945 and Operation Paperclip was steadily carried out between 1945 and 1959. Interestingly enough, NASA began in 1958 with Werhner von Braun officially assimilated, along with his V-2 rocket team, in 1960. Knowing this, it’s no stretch to say that the Nazis were not only the reason the US won the space race… but were also the driving force behind our entire space program.

Considering that Nazi’s were not only masters of propaganda, but also of unethical human testing, biological warfare, military production, and torture, both of the above scenarios are nothing short of terrifying. And if you look at post-WW2 history and officially disclosed government programs, Nazi influence begins to make a lot more sense.

I mean… just look at Project MK Ultra and MK Naomi. The US literally admitted to running an entire research operation on mind control techniques, and kidnapped, tortured, and tested on US civilians to do it.

And when did that start? 1953. Just 8 years following the beginning of Operation Paperclip.

And what about Operation Mockingbird? It was admitted by the CIA, under oath, that the CIA worked to infiltrate and successfully take over newspapers, magazines, and mainstream news platforms, all for wide-scale propaganda and control of the population.

And when did that start? You guessed it. 1950.

Tying Loose Ends

The craziest part about all of this is this is only what we DO know because of the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act. And yet, there’s still so much that we don’t.

“The Central Intelligence Agency is refusing to provide hundreds of thousands of pages of documents sought by a government working group under a 1998 law that requires full disclosure of classified records related to Nazi war criminals, say Congressional officials from both parties.” – New York Times (January 30, 2004)

The New York Times article goes on to describe how the CIA has interpreted the Nazi War Crimes Act in an exceptionally narrow fashion, refusing to release any more documents.

Though we can only speculate, it is possible that some of these suppressed files contain further damning evidence of US-Nazi relations, along with other organizations that assisted in protecting Nazis during and after the fall of the Nazi Regime.

For example, the Red Cross and the Vatican collaborated to smuggle thousands of war criminals to safety immediately after the fall of Nazi Germany. They used underground passages known as ‘ratlines’ to keep the men out of sight. The Red Cross issued legitimate travel documents to many Nazi members, and it’s estimated that over 8,000 SS members ended up in Britain and Canada alone.

Hitler (left) and Pope Pius XII (right)

These revelations shed light on how prominent Nazis such as Adolf Eichmann and Dr. Josef Mengele were able to escape from Germany and hide from Allied authorities for decades.

Now, I’m sure you have a million questions floating around in your head. You’re probably overwhelmed – numb even. I know I was. But, I can only speak to what I know, and all I know is… the Nazi regime was never destroyed – it just moved to America.