The Paperclip Conspiracy

A 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. Each nation wanted to seize the scientists for itself, and expectations that the scientists would supply advanced technology outweighed possibilities that they might have been (and in many cases were) war criminals. 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.