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Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia
"Before his official approval of the program,
President Truman, for sixteen months, was indecisive on the program.
[10] Years later in 1963, Truman recalled that he was not in the least reluctant to approve Paperclip; that because of relations with Russia "this had to be done and was done".
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Several of the Paperclip scientists were later investigated because of their links with the
Nazi Party during the war. Only one Paperclip scientist,
Georg Rickhey, was formally tried for any crime, and no Paperclip scientist was found guilty of any crime, in America or Germany. Rickhey was returned to Germany in 1947 to stand trial at the
Dora Trial, where he was acquitted.
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In 1951, weeks after his U.S. arrival,
Walter Schreiber was linked by the
Boston Globe to human experiments conducted by
Kurt Blome at
Ravensbrück, and he emigrated to Argentina with the aid of the U.S. military.
In 1984,
Arthur Rudolph, under perceived threat of prosecution relating to his connection—as operations director for V-2 missile production—to the use of
forced labor from
Mittelbau-Dora at the
Mittelwerk, renounced his U.S. citizenship and moved to West Germany, which granted him citizenship.
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For fifty years, from 1963 to 2013, the Strughold Award—named after
Hubertus Strughold,
The Father of Space Medicine, for his central role in developing innovations like the
space suit and
space life support systems—was the most prestigious award from the Space Medicine Association, a member organization of the
Aerospace Medical Association.
[38] On October 1, 2013, in the aftermath of a
Wall Street Journal article published on December 1, 2012, which highlighted his connection to human experiments during WW2, the Space Medicine Association's Executive Committee announced that the Space Medicine Association Strughold Award had been retired.
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Five million is frequently cited as the number of non-Jews killed by the Nazis. The Holocaust did not just affect Jews.