Noah Michelson, Executive Editor at The Huffington Post's Gay Voices, returns to The Signorile Show today to help us close out the week with the stories making headlines in the LGBT blog-o-sphere. You can also follow Noah on twitter.
It has been well
documented that in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the United States
under a program called Operation Paperclip secretly recruited leading German
scientists in order to advance our space and military programs and to keep
these men with their valuable knowledge from falling into Soviet hands. However according to Eric Lichtblau, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for
The New York Times, we did not just
bring in a few scientists as is common believed, but rather we welcomed
possible up to 10,000 Nazis into our country, some of whom had played pivotal
roles in the genocide of European Jews.
In his new book The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler’s Men Eric details
this shameful point in our history when our government and intelligence
agencies not only allowed Nazi war criminals to start new and comfortable lives
in the United States but also protected them from facing the consequences of
their monstrous actions. Eric joins me
today to talk all about the book. You can also follow Eric on twitter.
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