That “Rocket Pioneers” photo you see in space museums? It’s not wholesome American ingenuity. It’s the direct product of Operation Paperclip—the U.S. government’s secret program that imported ~1,600 Nazi scientists, engineers & technicians after WWII. Let’s look closer at this 1956 photo and who’s in the shot: ✅ Wernher von Braun (seated right) — Nazi Party member and SS officer who built the V-2 using slave labor from concentration camps. ✅ Ernst Stuhlinger (seated left)—Key V-2 guidance expert, brought over with the team. ✅ Hermann Oberth (foreground)—Von Braun’s mentor, supported the Nazi rocket program. Joined the U.S. team in the mid-50s. ✅ Major General Holger Toftoy (standing)—The American Army officer who ran Paperclip for the rocket scientists. He hand-picked the Germans, oversaw their extraction, and relocated them. After arriving in 1945, these Paperclip Germans (and Toftoy directing them) first went to Fort Bliss, Texas. 🚀 From 1946 to early 1950 they fired captured V-2 rockets at White Sands Proving Ground near Alamogordo, NM—reverse-engineering and testing the very weapons Hitler used on London and Antwerp. By 1950 the whole operation moved to Huntsville, Alabama (Redstone Arsenal / ABMA). The 1956 photo captures them there, already building the Redstone/Jupiter missiles that led straight to NASA’s Saturn V and the Apollo moon missions. Toftoy didn’t just “oversee” it—he was the guy who convinced the Pentagon to bring the Nazis over, paper-clipping their files to bypass war crimes scrutiny. 🧐 America “won the space race”…by importing the Nazi rocket team from Germany. The soviets had also snagged Nazis for their aid of this “race.” History books and museum plaques love the “genius immigrants” story. They’re silent about the Paperclip bargain: morals traded for tech in the name of beating the Soviets and building lies and propaganda from a nefarious set of building blocks. Your tax dollars, your “moon landing,” and Nazi V-2 expertise. 🤑 🤥 Money, lies, and the good old boys’ network. Just another “pragmatic” chapter in the real history they don’t put on the big plaques. What do you think—a necessary evil or a deal with the devil? You know my pick. 😏 #OperationPaperclip#