Orders for the transportation of seventeen German civilians to the United States.
Item
Dublin Core
Identifier
spc_schu_550_551
Title
Orders for the transportation of seventeen German civilians to the United States.
Description
This document identifies the first group of German engineers to be brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. Seven of the men listed were eventually transported to the U. S. Army post at Fort Bliss, Texas: Wernher von Braun, Wilhelm Jungert, Erich Neubert, Theo Poppel, Eberhard Rees, August Schulze, and Walter Schwidetski. The men were transported from Germany by air and then by train once in the United States.
Date
1945-09-15
Temporal Coverage
Type
Source
William August Schulze Collection
Box 2, Folder 17
University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collection, Huntsville, Alabama
Language
Rights
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Relation
spc_schu_2019_01A
Collection
Citation
United States. Army. United States Forces, European Theater, “Orders for the transportation of seventeen German civilians to the United States.,” UAH Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Initiatives, accessed October 7, 2024, http://libarchstor2.uah.edu/digitalcollections/items/show/495.