00:00History remembers the rockets that reached the stars.
00:03It forgets the men who traded their souls to launch them.
00:07In the smoking ruins of 1945, the greatest technological heist in human history began.
00:14What if the men who built Hitler's deadliest weapon became America's space heroes overnight?
00:21With von Braun and his team safely in U.S. hands,
00:24Operation Paperclip explodes in secret, recruiting over 1,600 German rocket experts,
00:32wiping clean their Nazi records to steal the ultimate Cold War advantage.
00:37They head straight to White Sands Desert, firing captured V-2s, absorbing every deadly secret.
00:44Two superheroes, two visions of tomorrow.
00:48But as the countdown hits zero in the dark, a shadow falls across the launch bar.
00:53Someone who knows every secret.
00:57Follow us now for episode 4, because the race has only just begun.
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