helped von braun to white wash his past.magine how importantly it was, that space race with the soviets was the key to supremacy and there was no way that the american public could swallow this idea that von braun had some very dark hearted programs going on in world war ii. >> it's horrible to think about and then you talk about these doctors and other individuals who were involved in all of these experiments, one of them was siegfried ruff, he said personally i would not consider these experiments as immoral, especially in war time. and he was acquitted at nurenburg. >> he was one of seven tried at nurenburg. after all these years that finally showed that those men were on a wanted war crimes list. we knew they were conducting medical experiments but we hired them anyways. >> some objected to operation paper clip, some of them albert einstein. raises the issues for their fitness to hold key positions in american institutions. even dwight eisenhower had meetings but ended up supporting it too. >> you know an interesting ane