Operation Paperclip involved bringing Nazi scientists to the USA to get an edge in the space race against the USSR post-WWII. How did American scientists react to showing up to work one day to see Nazis in their midst?

by mowshowitz

I could ask a number of questions about this, which I just found out about the other day, but the fundamental thing I can't stop musing over is, how do you react to being expected to work with members of a nation (and often, believers of an ideology) that your nation just spent four years mobilizing to destroy? Was there any dissent from within these institutions (in general, but particularly from rank-and-file scientists expected to interface with them on a daily basis)? Was there a range of reactions? Did this evolve? Thanks in advance.

jbdyer

Operation Paperclip gets a lot of a questions, so more answers related to it are welcome, but I believe you may enjoy this previous answer by /u/snuffbird which discusses the issue at a national level, and this previous answer by /u/hannahstohelit which approaches at a local level.