HISTORY | WAR

What Happened To The Nazi Scientists After World War 2?

Operation paperclip in action

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World War II ended in 1945 after Hitler shot himself and his wife in his bunker in Berlin. The Nazis were quickly disbanded and many of them were executed for war crimes committed after the Nuremberg trials.