OPERATION PAPERCLIP CLOSES

So called because of the huge amount of paperwork generated at the close of WWII, where almost 120 German scientists were taken to the U.S.A arriving in America in 1945 in a ship from Le Havre.

Konrad Dannenberg who died aged 96 on Feb.16th was a V.2 rocket propulsion scientist whose pioneering work was behind all the modern ballistic missiles, he went on to work on the giant U S Saturn rocket which launched the Apollo II astronauts on their voyage to the moon.

The V2 or Hitler’s “revenge weapon” was used on Britain for refusing German peace offers, and changing tactics to carpet bomb German cities and soldiers families, away from the German army,  and we went to great lengths to hide and distort this information at the Nuremberg war crime trials.

The V2s  height range was an amazing 50 miles and at a speed of 3,500 MPH and was ideally suitable for the U S military. 60 V 2s were re-classified as A4s and shipped to the States, where other German rocket experts such as Werner Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph showed the Americans at White Sands New Mexico, the basis of the weapons potential.

Konrad Dannenberg was fascinated with rocketry and from the age of 12 wanted to work in the field, and after seeing fritz von Opel in 1928 with his rocket powered car, experimented on his own.

The Americans pulled out all the stops to evacuate as many scientists as possible, and when the Russians reached the V2 base at Peenemunde, found it was deserted apart from graffiti telling them to stop the rape squads and do themselves, it must be remembered that the Third Reich wanted to perpetuate and continue the purity of the Arian race, which is why the Russians wanted to see as many German women carrying their children as possible, to ruin the genetics tables.

The 1930s saw communism sweeping across Europe, and Hitler was the only man at the time to stand against it, he had several secret treaties with Britain to unite against Russia, but at the last minute under Churchill we switched policies and saw Germany as the enemy. The situation at the wars end meant we now had to deal with Russia on our doorstep, a huge folly on our part and one in which British Intelligence kept telling Churchill to the point where, exasperated he brought in his own people the S.O.E

The death of Konrad Dannenberg who was one of the German masterminds behind the whole U S space projects, pretty well brings operation Paperclip to a close, and the reams and reams of paperwork deliberately kept off computers will now be destroyed

Personally thanked by president J.F.K for his work, he was awarded the NASA Exceptional service medal in 1973.

T Stokes

Dannenberg died in Huntsville on the morning of Monday, February 16, 2009,
at the age of 96.

Dannenberg talks with Scaled Composite's founder, Burt Rutan.
All pictures from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Dannenberg