NP - W von Braun on Nazi Hunter doc

[Thomas Eckhardt]

>  From our GR angle, the cover-up -- to the extent there was one -- was
> to encourage the idea that there had been a de facto "firewall" between
> Peenemunde (all engineers and scientists and technicians who sent their
> designs and revisions "somewhere")... and Mittelwerk-Dora, built and run
> by Kammler's SS.

This makes sense. Paperclip elect Georg Rickhey was the one 
civilian/engineer who stood trial and was acquitted because his guilt 
could not be proved -- not surprisingly, if it is true that "[h]is 
Paperclip job at the air base was analagous to putting a fox in a 
chicken coop. Rickhey was paid to translate forty-two boxes of 
Mittelwerk documents shipped from Nordhausen--the very same
records a U.S. Army war crimes unit sought to use as evidence of his 
crimes."

So, what do you make of Hunt's assertion:

"Then, in an unprecedented move, the Army classified the entire trial 
record. The American public would not know that Rudolph, Magnus von 
Braun, and others at Fort Bliss had worked at Mittelwerk,
not Peenemunde. The press would not be able to obtain Smith's report 
that noted his suspicions about Rudolph, or see trial testimony of 
witnesses who said it was Rudolph who had signed sabotage
reports that were turned over to the SS. Wernher von Braun would be 
saved from having to answer awkward questions about his frequent visits 
to that underground hell. No one would know about twenty thousand men 
who died while working as slaves on Hitler's V-2. No one would even know 
that Camp Dora existed.

All of that evidence was now safely hidden from public scrutiny. And it 
stayed that way for decades."

Simply not true? Hyperbole?

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