Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis

This is easily one of the more obscure topics ive seen w documentary go about and this one handles it well, In short it's about how Jewish American soldiers were made to interrogate and collect intelligence on captured Nazi scientists, the documentary mainly feeds off of two fascinating interviews of the Jewish soldiers made to do this work. The documentary goes into depth with the emotional state of the soldiers made to look after the people who could have played a part in murdering their families. The animation is superb and it does well at summarizing a relatively complex issue.

I'm going to go out on a limb and call this documentary excellent for a number of reasons which I considered while watching the documentary. Most WW2 documentaries made in the recent past have been very sensationalized in order to to perhaps appeal to the masses rather than a narrow base who like world war two in a deep sense, learning facts and figures and small stories etc (youtubers have taken up this rolls) . Documentaries that allow veterans of the war to tell their own story are now almost impossible to make because the majority of them have died because of old age. So having a documentary that has two veterans tell the tale of their unique experience during WW2 is so pleasing but also a bit sad because it will be one of the last such documentaries. This documentary isn't the typical Battle of Normandy or Pearl Harbour documentary thats reasonably common. It looks at a smaller piece of a war that lasted almost a decade (if one includes Japan's early exploits). The story here is the how young Jewish soldiers were made to interrogate while also welcome, potentially useful scientists. I had no idea this occured. It reminded me of a Mark Felton who is a youtuber who makes small videos about the more obscure tales of World War 2. Yet its brought to life, some ww2 footage but mostly with nice animation. Which I found looked quite nice.

Thinking about the strategy of having jews trying to be handlers and interrogators, seems counter productive, but alas it happened. Anyway 9/10 for me as a great ww2 and Netflix documentary. Watch if you enjoy ww2.

First off, the camp is never mentioned by name. It apparently is Fort Hunt, about 4 miles south of Alexandria, VA. Secondly, these "secret Nazis" included Germans who were actually opposed to Hitler and many were willing to provide intel about Germany's (and later Russia's) rocket programs. Third, the use of animation is distracting and clearly meant to draw in younger viewers. Finally, considering the subject matter, the documentary is too short. Why not have footage of the remaining compound and fort, which is still standing and part of the National Park Service?

A fascinating subject that needs a longer running time.

A "documentary" about German scientists after the war, not about secret American Nazis.

Wernher von Braun applied for membership of the Nazi Party on 12 November 1937, and was issued membership number 5,738,692. That doesn't mean he was a Nazi per se, but rather that he didn't want to be persecuted or killed.

Were it not for von Braun John F. Kennedy's space program would have had a much harder time reaching the moon, and NASA would maybe never have become what it is today. Or rather, what it used to be before the 2000's.

My point is that the documentary makes a click bait claim of "secret Nazis" when the subjects were not killing anyone or sending them to interment camps. Could they have resisted German aggression? Maybe, maybe not. Germans resisting Hitler and his minions did not fare well at all.

Great informations but insufficient. They could be used more actual images or videos. And it was too short. However, generally, I liked it. There were real characters who lived.