Historically Interesting Document Grouping of German Scientist Dr C A Traenkle Who After The War Was

Historically Interesting Document Grouping of German Scientist Dr C A Traenkle Who After The War Was Taken to the USA as Part of Operation Paperclip and Worked in the Space Programme for the USA, the grouping consists of a large number of original Third Reich period and later US official documents relating to the Scientist Dr Traenkle. A former SA member, included is his ski certificate from the 1st Winter Sport event held by the SA Gruppe Thuringen. Various identification Ausweis documents are included, including the one for Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Hermann Goring Braunschweig. Passes issued by the RAF for him to enter particular establishments after the end of hostilities. The documents then all start to relate to his time in America, especially at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton Ohio, many documents are related to his visa applications and also his contracts of employment with the US officials. One very interesting document dated 12th December 1951 details a statement from Dr Traenkle, where he explains that he is conducting research to assist in the Space Programme and that this was following on from work he did for the Third Reich in 1943, ‘My present assignment is bound to the photogrammetric problem of Resection in Space which is of importance for analyzing flight tests. It is based on former ideas of mine already laid down in publications in Germany in 1943’. In this document he complains about his rate of pay and his treatment in the work environment. Other documents do include the official contract as part of Operation Paperclip. Overall this is a very interesting grouping of documents relating to a German scientist who contributed to America’s space programme, worthy of much further research. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). The primary purpose for Operation Paperclip was U.S. military advantage in the Soviet–American Cold War and the Space Race. The Soviet Union responded by relocating more than 2,200 German specialists—a total of more than 6,000 people including family members—with Operation Osoaviakhim during one night on October 22, 1946. In a secret directive circulated on September 3, 1946, President Truman officially approved Operation Paperclip and expanded it to include 1,000 German scientists under "temporary, limited military custody"