Are you familiar with a post-World War II project known as Operation Paper Clip?
Our deal with the devil. The U.S. government provided safe haven for certain Nazi war criminals in exchange for their scientific knowledge.
[Points at the picture.] I know who this man is. Victor Klemper.
The man standing next to your father is one of those criminals, though not the most famous of the bunch. Wernher von Braun, designer of the V-2 rockets that leveled London, may be the most notorious, but Victor Klemper certainly takes the prize for the most... evil Nazi to escape the Nuremburg trials.
What did he do?
He experimented on the Jews... drowned them, suffocated them, put them in pressure chambers. All in the name of science.
Together with Von Braun, Klemper helped us win the space race. Using his scientific data on the effects of high-altitude flying, we were able to put astronauts on the moon before the Soviets.
One giant step for mankind.
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