OPERATION PAPERCLIP: THE NAZI SCIENTISTS WHO BUILT THE SPACE PROGRAM

Episode 116 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on Operation Paperclip — the classified US program that brought more than 1,600 German scientists to America after World War II, altered their files to conceal Nazi Party and SS affiliations, and built Wernher von Braun — an SS officer who personally recruited concentration camp prisoners for the Mittelwerk factory — into the public face of American space exploration.The rocket that put Neil Armstrong on the Moon was designed by a man who used slave labor to build the weapon that bombed London.#HistoryMystery #OperationPaperclip #NASA #WernherVonBraun #HistoryPodcast---LE MANS 1955: THE DEADLIEST DAY IN MOTORSPORT HISTORYEpisode 117 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on the two seconds on June 11th, 1955 in which Pierre Levegh's Mercedes became airborne at the Le Mans circuit and disintegrated into the packed main grandstand, killing 84 people in the deadliest accident in motorsport history — a disaster that prompted multiple countries to ban circuit racing and Switzerland to maintain that ban for 67 years.In 1955, 300,000 spectators stood within reach of cars doing 150 miles per hour, separated by a mound of earth.#HistoryMystery #LeMans1955 #Motorsport #RacingHistory #HistoryPodcast