Wernher von Braun in 1961 with members of his management team, as Operation Paperclip scientists work on Saturn rocket.
n late September, members of the Canadian House of Commons were thrust into the international spotlight for something seemingly mundane—offeringto 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian Yaroslav Hunka, touted by the assembly’s speaker as a war hero who fought against invading Russian forces in World War II.
Or perhaps we take note when a former Nazi makes the news, as in the case of former Cleveland resident and concentration camp guardBut these narratives obscure the more typical stories of Nazis in North America, especially in the U.S. Our popular memory has downplayed the welcome offered to Nazi immigrants after the war, which is how Americans, like Canadians, have repeatedly blithely celebrated men from units accused of contributing to atrocities.
For displaced people originally from Soviet-bloc countries, it was beneficial to play up anti-communist political views. Postwar immigration laws like the 1948 DP Act and its 1952 amendment included provisions that favored DPs from Soviet-annexed countries, such as the Baltic states. This served a Cold War purpose—showing that the US was offering freedom to people fleeing communist oppression. Yet many came from regions where violent Nazi collaboration was common.
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