And operation paperclip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america the scientist that came from world war ii. And then a discussion on the pope francis and musjerks luni and then the monuments men. And now, operation paperclip the secret Intelligence Program that brought nazi scientists to america and the author annie jacobsen. The Program Brought scientist to the United States despite the fact they were accused of war crimes. This is 55 minutes. Good evening, everybodyism i am annie jacobsen. And i want to thank book passage for having me. It is delightful for being here. There is nothing that makes this author happier than meeting readers. Tonight im going to talk about operation paperclip and tell you how i got interested in and then where will end with what i think are interesting ways the story is reported. To start with, my book, these gentlemen are 21 of approximately 1600 german scientist who came to america to work for the United States military an
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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
Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Collection which was essentially jewish art that they made minimal efforts to locate the owners but to their credit much more recently and after the Washington Trust what they did with their art is face and its and in fact it was the question whether the Jewish Community should claim that art and have a museum of their own and they said no it belongs to the french state but what we want and what we got was some history of what happened. It may save from an unknown jewish family that at least someone
About operation paper clip and im going to tell you about what the program was. Im going to tell you a little bit about how i became interested in writing and researching and reporting pacing paper clip, and then im going to end by telling you some very what think are interesting ways in which the story gets reported. To start with, my book, these gentlemen are 21 of approximately 1600 german scientists who came to america to work for the u. S. Military and intelligence agencies of the war. I focus on these men because i found them to be particularly unique and interesting, and somewhat nefarious. On varying degrees. And i think its important to also realize that whenever youre reporting a story like this, its about writing on the riding on the heels of many important journalists and historians who have come before. So while i do bring lots of new information to the table, academics, also have been involved in unearthing this story over the decades, but i think now theres really a ligh