{"product_id":"our-germans-9781421438184","title":"Our Germans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gripping history of one of the United States' most controversial Cold War intelligence operations.   Project Paperclip brought hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun, to the United States in the first decade after World War II. More than the freighters full of equipment or the documents recovered from caves and hastily abandoned warehouses, the German brains who designed and built the V-2 rocket and other wonder weapons for the Third Reich proved invaluable to America's emerging military-industrial complex. Whether they remained under military employment, transitioned to civilian agencies like NASA, or sought more lucrative careers with corporations flush with government contracts, German specialists recruited into the Paperclip program assumed enormously influential positions within the labyrinthine national security state. Drawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough participant vignettes, historian Crim provides insight into early Cold War decision-making in this well-documented, microhistorical, dissertation-like expose of Project Paperclip. Highly recommended.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA very fine account concerning the internal dynamics of the Paperclip program, providing a more nuanced evaluation than has hitherto been available.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time when drones, cyberweapons, and other high technology continue to substitute for coherent foreign policy, Crim's book is a sober reminder of the moral hazards of a technocratic national security state.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat distinguishes \u003ci\u003eOur Germans\u003c\/i\u003e is its emphasis on the role of the specialists in the emerging national security state of the early Cold War, where Project Paperclip 'exacerbated the growing rift between the State Department and an ascendant national security bureaucracy' (99). But most importantly, \u003ci\u003eOur Germans\u003c\/i\u003e is a much-needed update and expansion of Clarence Lasby's 1971 \u003ci\u003eProject Paperclip: German Scientists and the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the aftermath of the Second World War, the US government recruited hundreds of German scientists and engineers, including the designers of the V2 rocket, to staff American agencies and companies under the so-called Paperclip programme. Crim draws on recently declassified documents to reveal the history of the programme and the controversies it provoked.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eInternational Institute for Strategic Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Aristocracy of Evil\u003cbr\u003e2. Implements of Progress\u003cbr\u003e3. Conscientious Objectors\u003cbr\u003e4. Their Germans\u003cbr\u003e5. Paperclip Vindicated\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408138150231,"sku":"9781421438184","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421438184.jpg?v=1730501726","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/our-germans-9781421438184","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}