Reagan claimed to have vited Buchenwald after Nazi deafeat and filmed there, part of Signal Corp

[bobbieinok]

He went on about this during a visit from the Israeli premier

In salon article by Joe Conason about W's and Reagan's claims of details of their military service. At salon.com/2010/5/20

[sandensea]

1. Reagan also had a role in the infamous Operation Paperclip as (of course) a publicist

Paperclip, many will recall, brought in over 10,000 Nazis - a few of them rocket scientists; but mostly war criminals and experts in eavesdropping, torture, false flag attacks, money laundering, etc.

[bobbieinok]

2. Werner von Braun developed the Nazi rocket tech . Brought to US, he pioneered US space tech

The Soviets and US competed to grab Nazi scientists and intelligence assets

Eta---Richard Gehlen in Nazi Intelligence ended up after WWII working with CIA. See Wikipedia article on Gehlen.

[sandensea]

3. Yes - but the rocket scientists were the tip of the iceberg

The presentable tip that most people remember.

War criminals, sadly, were the vast majority of Paperclip exiles - and they were certainly put to use.

[BSdetect]

4. Just as bad were the Japanese "doctors" and others who worked at Harbin in Manchuria.

Now their activities make for real disgusting history.

Most were not prosecuted.

[bobbieinok]

5. Wow! Never heard of that before

[abqtommy]

7. I learned about the Japanese torture of POWs during WWII at my Mother's knee...and many

other things too...

[ProfessorGAC]

6. They Did Some Horrible Things

There was a 2 hour documentary on AHC about Japanese military war crimes in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bugging me, but I can't recall the title.
Some of the things they did rival or surpass Mengele.
Just brutal.
Injecting pathogens into Chinese & Korean prisoners, then performing vivisection to see what happened at the disease peak! Freezing people to death but checking vitals to track the way cold kills.
And on a MASS scale.
Terrible stuff.

[maveric]

8. And while Prez he set a wreath at Bitburg SS cemetery.

Remember that?

[bobbieinok]

9. Oh yes! That was so horrible!

[empedocles]

10. reagan's actual contribution, not a fake or make up claim, to WWII