later, 34 of them would join harry armstrong at a facility in texas. the hugo -- we'll get to him in a moment. in the meanwhile, as all the doctors i just showed you the photograph of, were working at heidelberg, another area of military intelligence came knocking and they had information that six of these doctors were wanted for war crimes, and so six of them went off to nuremberg. these three would become part of paperclip, some before, some after. this is dr. theodore benzigger. he was taken to nuremberg. what i was so really startled by was when i first read about benzin re, i read his obituary in the "new york times" in 1999, and it spoke -- it lauded his career for naval intelligence. he was a physiologist for the navy, and it talked about how he invented the ear thermometer and what great contributions he had given to military medicine but never mentioned his wartime work, and what i found in berlin were documents that showed that benzinger was on the original list of criminals that were going to be tried at the nazi -- at the doctors trial at n

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