00:00Did you know that the man who put America on the moon once used slave labor to build
00:04rockets that killed thousands?
00:06In 1945, the war was over.
00:08But America had a problem.
00:10The Nazis had built weapons we'd never seen before.
00:12Rockets that could cross oceans, technology decades ahead of our own.
00:16So we made a deal with the devil.
00:18Operation Paperclip brought over 1,600 Nazi scientists to America.
00:22We erased their war crimes, gave them new identities, made them heroes.
00:25Werner von Braun was the crown jewel, the rocket genius who would father NASA's space program.
00:31But there was blood on his hands.
00:33His V2 rockets were built by prisoners at concentration camps.
00:3620,000 slaves died making his weapons.
00:39He walked through the tunnels, saw the bodies, kept building.
00:42When survivors tried to speak out, their testimonies were buried.
00:45The same hands that tortured prisoners in underground factories later shook hands with presidents.
00:51America's greatest space triumph was built on the bones of Nazi victims.
00:55We didn't just recruit war criminals, we rewarded them.
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