title: The Paperclip Conspiracy: The Hunt for the Nazi Scientists
author:  Tom Bower 
description: Bower's (Pledge Betrayed) book is an impressively documented exposure of the frantic rush at the close of World War II by U.S., Britain and Russia to "hunt down" for their own purposes the Germans who developed the V-2 rocket, the Panzer tank and other remarkable weapons that gave Hitler his early triumphs. There was competition between the U.S. and Britain on one hand, and between the two rivals teamed together against the Soviets: each nation wanted to seize the scientists for itselfand, as Bower makes clear, expectations that the scientists would supply advanced technology outweighed possibilities that they might have been (and in many cases were) war criminals. The material presented here of what, in effect, was a tacit conspiracy by State Department and military officials to bypass U.S. laws by virtually smuggling top German scientists into the countryWerner von Braun is only one of scores treated hereis riveting reading. The book's title derives from a secret filing system that identified doctored dossiers of Nazis the military sought: ordinary paperclips were used instead of category names. Bower's revelations are individually shocking and cumulatively devastating. That hundreds of Nazis were whitewashed and worked on U.S. bases will appall readers. <br />Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: ## **The Nazi's Engineer**
  
  
  
  
  
  ### **A James Acton Thriller**
  
  
  
  
  
  ### by
  
  
  
  
  
  ### J. Robert Kennedy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## From the Back Cover
  
  
  
  
  
  **ONE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR’S MOST ENDURING MYSTERIES IS ABOUT TO BE
  SOLVED.**
  
  
  
  
  
  **BUT AT WHAT COST?**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Nazi Germany. 1945. When Detective Inspector Wolfgang Vogel is approached by
  his distraught neighbor, begging him to find her missing husband, he is
  quickly drawn into a case the Gestapo and SS are determined he never solve,
  putting his own life, and that of his family, at risk.
  
  
  
  
  
  And over 70 years later, Archaeology Professor James Acton and his wife
  discover the horrifying reason behind what turns out to be far more than a
  simple missing persons case, the revelation thrusting them into the middle of
  something much bigger than they could have ever imagined.
  
  
  
  
  
  A discovery worth unfathomable millions.
  
  
  
  
  
  And like the Nazis, there are those today who will stop at nothing to possess
  what they have found.
  
  
  
  
  
  From US