NP - W von Braun on Nazi Hunter doc

[Dave Monroe]

Thanks!

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:12 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry if someone has already posted this, but it caught my eye.
>
> So this history channel series called "Nazi Hunters" has one episode
> on Rocket Scientists, with a focus on WVB - natch.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O52gQNVOEKE
>
> About 35 minutes into the piece it states that the public was made
> aware of German (Nazi) scientists working in and for the US; first in
> 1946 an article appeared in the El Paso Times about "Top German V-2
> Experts Stationed E.P" - but that was only local news. "The story
> resurfaced in 1947, this time nationally." ir ran in the New York
> Herald tribune, when little Tommy P was ten years old.
>
> Can anyone add anything to this? Does anyone perchance have the
> articles? The El Paso article was front page but the documentary says
> nothing about the NYH Tribune piece. Did it get much buzz or did it
> die? Would folks on Oyster Bay have read about it? Or talked about it?
>
> This website ( http://v33v.tripod.com/ww3.html ) was helpful filling
> in the time line. Feb 23 all 117 of the V2 scientists ("The Team") are
> in El Paso. Media doesn't seem topick it up until November and Time
> runs a piece on The Team on December 9. At the end of the month Truman
> received a letter from Einstein and others protesting the presence and
> employment of former nazis.
>
> Maybe a lot of folks still harboured Father Coughlin type sentiments,
> so only Stephen Wise got upset. Eveybody else was watching Tom and
> Jerry.
>
> ciao
> mc otis
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