🚀 Operation Paperclip:
Wernher von Braun
Last week’s episode focused on Wernher von Braun — a name most people associate with NASA, the Saturn V, and the moment humans first stepped onto the Moon. On the surface, it’s one of the greatest comeback stories in modern history: a brilliant engineer helps America win the Space Race and change the future of humanity.
But that story starts years earlier — and somewhere very different.
Before NASA, von Braun was the lead rocket designer for Nazi Germany. His V-2 missiles were the first human-made objects to reach space, and they were used to terrorize civilian cities across Europe. Those rockets weren’t built in clean labs — they were manufactured using forced labor from concentration camps, where thousands of prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, and abuse.
After the war, instead of standing trial, von Braun was quietly brought to the United States through Operation Paperclip. His Nazi past was downplayed, his SS connections minimized, and his work was reframed as essential to national security. Within years, he went from designing weapons for Hitler to becoming America’s most trusted face of space exploration…
Get the Full Story… Click below to watch👇
Shop the NEW UFO Collection below👇👽
PEAK INSIDE THE TENT…⛺️
Tomorrow’s episode dives into Toussaint Louverture — a man most people have heard of, but almost no one fully understands. On the surface, he’s remembered as a former slave who helped lead the Haitian Revolution and defeat Europe’s most powerful empires.
But that version barely scratches it…
Toussaint wasn’t just a rebel — he was a military genius, a political operator, and a man playing multiple empires against each other at the same time. He fought for Spain, then France, then effectively for himself. He defeated British invasions, crushed internal rebellions, and ran an entire colony while still claiming loyalty to France — even as he dismantled slavery in practice.
And then there’s the part people leave out.
Napoleon Bonaparte… he didn’t just lose Haiti. He lost control of Toussaint — and that scared him enough to kidnap him under false peace talks and ship him to a frozen prison in the French Alps, where he died alone.
Tomorrow’s episode breaks down how Toussaint rose from slavery to absolute power, how he outmaneuvered Europe’s greatest armies, and why his story doesn’t fit cleanly into hero or villain.
The FULL story drops tomorrow🚨
Click below so you don’t miss out.👇
Thanks for reading HISTORY CAMP. Until next time, stay curious, question everything, and keep uncovering the mysteries of the past.