Steinacher of the university of nebraska who will talk about the rats lines utilized by nazis to escape europe and justice. Our final speaker will be linda holmes who will shift the focus to the japanese who were responsible for horrific treatment of p. O. W. S, yet most did not have to suffer the consequences of their actions. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our first speaker, annie jacobsen. [ applause ] thank you so much. Im annie jacobsen, a journalist and author. I write about wars, weapons, u. S. National security and secrets. Im very interested in history. Im particularly interested in how history gets recorded, and how history gets reported. I came upon operation paperclip which was the secret program to bring nazi scientists to the United States for our Weapons Programs. When i was working on another book called area 51 about the spy plane programs that were going on out in the nevada desert. The u2th in sr71 and the a12 ox cart. And i learned from the sci
Steinacher of the university of nebraska who will talk about the rats lines utilized by nazis to escape europe and justice. Our final speaker will be linda holmes who will shift the focus to the japanese who were responsible for horrific treatment of p. O. W. S, yet most did not have to suffer the consequences of their actions. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our first speaker, annie jacobsen. [ applause ] thank you so much. Im annie jacobsen, a journalist and author. I write about wars, weapons, u. S. National security and secrets. Im very interested in history. Im particularly interested in how history gets recorded, and how history gets reported. I came upon operation paperclip which was the secret program to bring nazi scientists to the United States for our Weapons Programs. When i was working on another book called area 51 about the spy plane programs that were going on out in the nevada desert. The u2th in sr71 and the a12 ox cart. And i learned from the sci
Steinacher of the university of nebraska who will talk about the rats lines utilized by nazis to escape europe and justice. Our final speaker will be linda holmes who will shift the focus to the japanese who were responsible for horrific treatment of p. O. W. S, yet most did not have to suffer the consequences of their actions. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our first speaker, annie jacobsen. [ applause ] thank you so much. Im annie jacobsen, a journalist and author. I write about wars, weapons, u. S. National security and secrets. Im very interested in history. Im particularly interested in how history gets recorded, and how history gets reported. I came upon operation paperclip which was the secret program to bring nazi scientists to the United States for our Weapons Programs. When i was working on another book called area 51 about the spy plane programs that were going on out in the nevada desert. The u2th in sr71 and the a12 ox cart. And i learned from the sci
Steinacher of the university of nebraska who will talk about the rats lines utilized by nazis to escape europe and justice. Our final speaker will be linda holmes who will shift the focus to the japanese who were responsible for horrific treatment of p. O. W. S, yet most did not have to suffer the consequences of their actions. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming our first speaker, annie jacobsen. [ applause ] thank you so much. Im annie jacobsen, a journalist and author. I write about wars, weapons, u. S. National security and secrets. Im very interested in history. Im particularly interested in how history gets recorded, and how history gets reported. I came upon operation paperclip which was the secret program to bring nazi scientists to the United States for our Weapons Programs. When i was working on another book called area 51 about the spy plane programs that were going on out in the nevada desert. The u2th in sr71 and the a12 ox cart. And i learned from the sci
All this and much more on booktv on cspan2 this weekend. For the full schedule, visit booktv. Org. Annie jacobsen is next on booktv. The author recounts the u. S. Governments clandestine program to employ german scientists following world war ii. The program, dubbed operation paper clip, brought several scientists and their families to the United States despite the fact many were accused of war crimes. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you so much. Good evening, everybody. I am annie jacobsen. I want to thank book passage for having me. Of its really delightful to be here, and thank you all so much for coming. Theres nothing that makes this author happier than meeting readers, so thank you. Tonight im going to be talking about operation paperclip, and im going to tell you a little bit about what the program was, a little bit about how i became interested in writing and researching and reporting operation paperclip, and then im going end by telling you some very what i th