There Are Times A Good Nazi Can Help

I'm sure a lot of people will read this and be pissed off about helping Nazis but some Nazis actually helped the U.S. of A. Don't get me wrong, most of them (like 99%?) were very bad, but you could count on some of them Nazi scientists to really know their thing. It's just like America. You can't brand EVERYONE a piece of crap without eliminating the few good ones. Right?

When it comes to killing a lot of people all at once, you ask a Nazi and he'll tell you, and you would be hard pressed to get better advice on this subject back then, and perhaps even now! They are also great at that marching and saluting thing. They can get like a thousand guys in line and do it perfectly.

The report also examines the case of Arthur L. Rudolph, a Nazi scientist who ran the Mittelwerk munitions factory. He was brought to the United States in 1945 for his rocket-making expertise under Operation Paperclip, an American program that recruited scientists who had worked in Nazi Germany. (Rudolph has been honored by NASA and is credited as the father of the Saturn V rocket.)

The report cites a 1949 memo from the Justice Department’s No. 2 official urging immigration officers to let Rudolph back in the country after a stay in Mexico, saying that a failure to do so “would be to the detriment of the national interest.”

Isn't that a hoot? Will you ever think of a "Paperclip" the same way? I know I won't. Whenever I hold a paperclip now I'll think of this hardworking Nazi guy helping us out. But before I get carried away, there's the other hand, where every group has its lemons, and we apparently took in a few of these as well.

In 1980, prosecutors filed a motion that “misstated the facts” in asserting that checks of C.I.A. and F.B.I. records revealed no information on the Nazi past of Tscherim Soobzokov, a former Waffen SS soldier. In fact, the report said, the Justice Department “knew that Soobzokov had advised the C.I.A. of his SS connection after he arrived in the United States.”

Now maybe they brought some of these lemons over to hang out with the good ones? The scientist guys? I mean it's gotta be lonely over here in America for a Nazi. Maybe they brought over a few of your more average dyed in the wool Nazis to go bowling and have a few beers with the good Nazis that we needed to help us build the rockets. Maybe even a few Nazi chicks, like in those "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS" movies?

Apparently there was also an Indian outburst somewhere along the line and that Dr. Mengele got bushwacked like Custer. At least that's how this sounds. Maybe we sent an Indian hit squad down there to take him out? He wouldn't suspect that...he'd be looking for a Jew! Ah-hah! So in conclusion, there are a few lessons here, and probably the most important one is don't be so naive as to think you can't find a useful Nazi here and there, even though most of them are pretty bad.

So too are references to macabre but little-known bits of history, including how a director of the O.S.I. kept a piece of scalp that was thought to belong to Dr. Mengele in his desk in hopes that it would help establish whether he was dead.

[New York Times]