Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis

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.

A story that you can hardly believe - but well told. Using animation mixed with real images of the witnesses makes it even more interesting. A dark part of American History.

POBOX1142 was a secret prison camp located near Washington that housed Nazi prisoners during World War 2 with an express view to extract information regarding Hitler v2 rocket program. Many of the guards and interrogators were Jewish refugees from Europe serving in the US Army and it's from interviews with these men this story is told. Post WW2 the dynamics of these guards and prisoners change as the Americans illegally bring in more of these Nazi scientists to work on their own programmes and suddenly the Jewish guard's relationship is to keep the Nazi's happy and serve their needs serving them drinks, taking them to the cinema and night clubs, arranging gifts for their families in Germany etc. This leads to the uncomfortable moral question of how these prisoners many of which were war criminals should have been dealt with especially by men who lost their families and homes in the holocaust. Interesting and engaging and a novel take with the use of animations. It probably deserved a longer running time and more in-depth look. 7/10.

It's an introduction people, not a college course. What did you expect from a 30 minute animated short? It's something young adults can watch. Educational but not as distributing as say Schindler's List. Makes you want to learn more about the subject. For more, Google Operation Paperclip. This is what is about - I'm surprised they didn't mention it in the program.

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.