{"product_id":"our-germans-brian-e-crim-9781421438184","title":"Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State","description":"\u003cp\u003eProject 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on recently declassified documents from intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, the FBI, and the State Department, Brian E. Crim's \u003cem\u003eOur Germans\u003c\/em\u003e examines the process of integrating German scientists into a national security state dominated by the armed services and defense industries. Crim explains how the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency enticed targeted scientists, whitewashed the records of Nazis and war criminals, and deceived government agencies about the content of security investigations. Exploring the vicious bureaucratic rivalries that erupted over the wisdom, efficacy, and morality of pursuing Paperclip, \u003cem\u003eOur Germans\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how some Paperclip proponents and scientists influenced the perception of the rival Soviet threat by volunteering inflated estimates of Russian intentions and technical capabilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs it describes the project's embattled legacy, \u003cem\u003eOur Germans\u003c\/em\u003e reflects on the myriad ways that Paperclip has been remembered in culture and national memory. As this engaging book demonstrates, whether characterized as an expedient Cold War program born from military necessity or a dishonorable episode, the project ultimately reflects American ambivalence about the military-industrial complex and the viability of an ends justifies the means solution to external threats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian E. Crim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421438186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421438184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Brian E. Crim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983677522175,"sku":"9781421438184","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8265c494-8894-4a39-928f-4e4fdd880981.jpg?v=1683268077","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/our-germans-brian-e-crim-9781421438184","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}