Latest Operation paperclip Podcast Episodes

Introducing 'Foretold'

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - May 18, 2023 12:00 - 8 minutes
"Foretold" is the newest podcast from the L.A. Times, and we're sharing a preview of the first episode with you here today.  In the fall of 2019, reporter Faith E. Pinho received a tip from a woman named Paulina Stevens. Paulina claimed she had grown up in an insular Romani community in Califor...

BONUS: Conversations with David Weil & Nikki Toscano | 6

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - June 24, 2020 07:00 - 28 minutes
On this special Bonus Episode of PAPERCLIP, host Michael Ian Black talks with David Weil and Nikki Toscano, the showrunners and executive producers of Amazon Studios’ Emmy©-eligible original drama series, HUNTERS. Set in 1977 New York City, HUNTERS follows a team of vigilantes on a mission to ...

Military & Industry | 5

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - June 17, 2020 07:00 - 41 minutes
Operation Paperclip began as a temporary program -- but before long, its German recruits were given a path to American citizenship, and men who worked for the Nazi regime suddenly became men who lived next door. Previously on PAPERCLIP, comedian Michael Ian Black and historian Monique Laney ex...

Doctors & Chemists | 4

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - June 10, 2020 07:00 - 39 minutes
For students of history and consumers of pop culture, the ‘Nazi doctor’ is a familiar figure -- the ultimate embodiment of pure evil. In fact, several of the Nazi villians in the Amazon original drama series HUNTERS are doctors. But how did Nazi Germany’s doctors become symbols of Third Reich ...

The Rocket Men, Part II: Arthur Rudolph | 3

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - June 03, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes
Rocket engineer Arthur Rudolph accompanied Wernher von Braun to the United States through Operation Paperclip after World War II. In Nazi Germany, Rudolph was the production manager for the V-2 missile program; in America, he became NASA’s project manager for the Saturn V, the rocket that put me...

The Rocket Men, Part I: Wernher von Braun | 2

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - May 26, 2020 07:30 - 36 minutes
Even if you’ve never heard of Operation Paperclip, chances are you’ve heard of Wernher von Braun -- the visionary rocketeer whose brilliance brought us, literally, to the Moon and back. With his telegenic charisma and stunning contributions to America’s civilian space program, Wernher von Brau...

Operation Paperclip | 1

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - May 26, 2020 07:00 - 36 minutes
As it follows an eclectic group of vigilantes in their mission to rid America of Nazi war criminals, the Amazon original drama series Hunters references Operation Paperclip, a secretive government program that brought the Third Reich’s most brilliant -- and often villainous -- minds to the Unite...

Introducing PAPERCLIP

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - May 20, 2020 01:14 - 1 minute
It’s 1945. Hitler is defeated. America is looking to outsmart a new enemy, the Soviet Union. To advance in rocketry, aviation, and chemical weapons, America recruits scientists and engineers who fueled the war machine of another nation...Nazi Germany. Inspired by the true story behind the Emmy-e...

Introducing...Paperclip

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - May 20, 2020 01:14 - 1 minute
It’s 1945. Hitler is defeated. America is looking to outsmart a new enemy, the Soviet Union. To advance in rocketry, aviation, and chemical weapons, America recruits scientists and engineers who fueled the war machine of another nation...Nazi Germany. Inspired by the true story behind t...

L.A. Times presents Coronavirus in California

Paperclip: America's Nazi Scientists - May 12, 2020 17:53 - 42 seconds
"Paperclip" is coming soon. This podcast series is funded by Amazon Studios and produced by LA Times Studios. The Los Angeles Times newsroom was not involved in the creation of this series. Meanwhile, please listen and subscribe to the Los Angeles Times podcast, "Coronavirus in Califor...