<p>After the War in Europe ended with the fall of Berlin, allied nations began using any means necessary to bring on Nazi scientists to enhance their own military technology.</p> <p>This week on the Notcast, we explore Operation Paperclip, a covert project to bring former Nazi scientists that could have been tried for war crimes to the U.S. in order to build America's space powers.</p> <p>Show notes are on <a href="https://anchor.fm/dashboard/episode/e4knf5/metadata/www.ripleys.com/notcast">Ripleys.com</a>. You can join the Notcast conversation <a href="https://twitter.com/Ripleys">on Twitter</a> or drop us a line at [email protected].</p>