[kj] OT: Messerschmitt (was re: Jaz's Birthday)

[Brendan Quinn]

That's a name to send nationalistic fervour down your spine...

"MEN! Today we commence, OPERATION PAPERCLIP! In your left pocket you will
all find a shiny new steel paperclip. This paperclip will be your best
friend for the next 12 weeks. You will eat with it, file with it....clean
the grit out from your fingernails and teeth with it"

-----Original Message-----
From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2008 3:09 p.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] OT: Messerschmitt (was re: Jaz's Birthday)

Yeah, I know there was a big scramble in '45 between the US/UK/Allies 
and the Russians to appropriate Nazi science once Germany was occupied. 
That included the US's "Operation Paperclip," -- 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_paperclip -- which was 
essentially the importing of Nazi scientists into the US, excusing them 
of war crimes, etc., and putting them to work at places like White 
Sands, etc.

-Oliver


Brendan Quinn wrote:

> Despite an eventual technological advantage, it came too late. They got

> pasted in the air war by the Allies. Which included pilots from many

> countries as well as the RAF and USAF.

>

> In 44 / 45 the Allies had air superiority, to the extent that they

conducted

> terror raids, bombing remote villages and towns, farms, massive carpet

> bombing of cities (Dresden is a name everyone is aware of in that

> context)...to demonstrate to the german people that they were completely

> beaten in the air, the propaganda from their own side was just that, and

> they could be attacked wherever, whenever, and they would be.

>

>   


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