Group of 104 German rocket scientists, some previously involved with the V-2 Rocket, including Wernher von Braun, Ludwig Roth and Arthur Rudolph, as part of Operation Paperclip. Fort Bliss, Texas, United States. January 1946 [800×349]
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Group of 104 German rocket scientists, some previously involved with the V-2 Rocket, including Wernher von Braun, Ludwig Roth and Arthur Rudolph, as part of Operation Paperclip. Fort Bliss, Texas, United States. January 1946 [800×349]
by Johannes_P
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Description of the picture, from [the Wikimedia source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Project_Paperclip_Team_at_Fort_Bliss.jpg):
> Group of 104 German rocket scientists in 1946, including Wernher von Braun, Ludwig Roth and Arthur Rudolph, at Fort Bliss, Texas. The group had been subdivided into two sections: a smaller one at White Sands Proving Grounds for test launches and the larger at Fort Bliss for research. Many had worked to develop the V-2 Rocket at Peenemünde Germany and came to the U.S. after World War II, subsequently working on various rockets including the Explorer 1 Space rocket and the Saturn (rocket) at NASA.
[Operation Paperclip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) was an American project involving hiring more than 1600 German scientists, engineers and technicians from the vainquished Nazi Germany to employment in the US Federal government, most of them working in the fields of rocketry and aerodynamics. The most famous of these was Wernher von Braun.
A September 3, 1946 secret directive by Harry Truman officially approved the project, and media revealed it from December 1946.
Controversy erupted with the links some of these specialists had with the NSDAP, the SA or the SS, with some even facing accusation of participation in atrocities such as forced labour (Braun) or human experimentation (Hubertus Strughold, nicknamed “the father of space medicine”).
Other countries, such as France, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, also had projects to use German specialists.
Rocket Science is still extremely difficult and dangerous and qualified RSs are exceedingly rare. I’m not sure how ‘problematic’ you’d have to be to get DQ’ed from RS work today especially when they could just have you quietly WFH 24-7
“German”
“Nazis. I hate these guys.”
Okay folks before we take the picture.
If you weren’t a nazi raise your hand.
Okay, thanks, say cheese
*Nazi rocket scientists