From 1955 to 1975, US soldiers were used as unwitting test subjects for nerve agents and psychochemicals like LSD at Edgewood Arsenal. Many suffered debilitating, life-changing after-effects. Some of the scientists who ran these experiments were Nazis who had also experimented on concentration camp inmates, and were recruited by the US military after World War 2. Their recruitment was part of Operation Paperclip, the same project that brought Nazi scientists into NASA. Yet the scientists were only a fraction of this program, which also recruited Nazi SS spies and unleashed them into the Cold War, installed Nazi generals into top positions in West Germany and NATO, and helped Nazi war criminals flee prosecution. And this story goes even deeper, all the way to the initial rise of Nazi Germany, directly challenging the dominant US narrative about its history. We’ve compiled it all into an immersive, 1 hour and 20 minute podcast that explores the many facets of this scandal and how they are connected. We’ve combed through tens of hours of oral testimony to bring the story to life with shocking first-hand accounts. This is part of our new podcast series: ‘Socialist History,’ which uncovers the real story of US imperialism through a socialist lens, told from the perspective of the people who fought back. In this first season each episode unpacks a different Pentagon or CIA operation. Listen to the preview on YouTube: https://youtu.be/bdd35BKWMJ8 Become a member to hear the full episode: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2243748

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