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Wernher von Braun was head of Nazi Germany's V2 rocket program and an SS member. As part of Project Paperclip, von Braun and over 1600 Nazi scientists were secretly recruited by the US. In the 1960s, many former Nazi rocket scientists were recruited by NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germans_relocated_to_the_US_via_the_Operation_Paperclip?wprov=sfla1 https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fact-check-nazi-scientists-brought-u-s-operation-paperclip/5690870002/
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