A new Netflix film tells the incredible story of a top-secret US prisoner camp where Nazi officers a...View MoreA new Netflix film tells the incredible story of a top-secret US prisoner camp where Nazi officers and scientists were guarded and interviewed by Jewish soldiers who had fled the Holocaust in Europe.
Known as PO Box 1142, the facility - which boasted swimming pools and tennis courts - was hidden away in Fairfax County in the state of Virginia.
Its core purpose was to interview Prisoners of War about Germany's advances in weapons and rocket technology, whilst making
them feel welcome in the hope that they would divulge more information.
Now, after decades of being shrouded in secrecy, the facility
- which was part of the infamous Operation Paperclip - has been brought to public attention in the
part-animated Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis, which has been made by Israeli film makers Daniel Sivan and
Mor Loushy.
Among the senior German officers held there was spy chief Reinhard Gehlen, who had been the Wehrmacht's chief of intelligence on the eastern front
in the War.
He was released in in 1946 after Adolf Hitler's defeat and went
on to head up the CIA-affiliated anti-Communist Gehlen Organisation in occupied Germany at the
start of the Cold War.
Also held at PO Box 1142 was aerospace engineer
Wernher von Braun - who had led Germany's devastating V2 rocket programme
and is said to have known about the Nazi death camp Auschwitz,
where more than one million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust.
Von Braun later became a US citizen and, along with his colleague at Peenemunde, Kurt Debus, was a leading figure in Nasa's Apollo 11 mission which saw astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon in 1969.
The inventor of infrared detection, Heinz Schlicke, was
also among the camp's inmates.
Two of the Jewish men who had fled to the US from Germany before joining
the US Army and working at PO Box 1142 were interviewed for the
new Netflix drama.
Arno Mayer and Peter Weiss were among the men tasked with being 'nice' to the German prisoners, in the hope that
they would divulge crucial secrets about Hitler's weapons programmes.
On one occasion, Mayer was forced to take von Braun and other Nazis to
a department store so they could buy lingerie and
other gifts to send home to their wives and children.
A new Netflix film tells the incredible story of a top-secret US
prisoner camp where senior Nazis were guarded and interviewed by Jewish
soldiers who had fled the Holocaust in Europe.
Known as PO Box 1142, the facility - which boasted swimming pools and tennis courts -
was hidden away at Fort Hunt in Fairfax County in the state of
Virginia
Aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun was held at PO Box 1142.
He is pictured left second from right with German officers during the Second World War.
He led Germany's devastating V2 rocket programme and is said to have
known about the Nazi death camp Auschwitz,
where more than one million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Von Braun later became
a US citizen and was a leading figure in Nasa's Apollo
11 mission which saw astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon in 1969.
Right: von Braun in the 1960s
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PO Box 1142, which was named after the site's mailing address, was
established in 1942. At its height, there were 87 buildings at the facility.
A total of 3,451 prisoners spent time there until it was
closed in July 1945, after the end of the Second World War.
It was then bulldozed the following year and
little was known about it until some remnants were unearthed in the early 2000s.
Information about it has only recently been declassified.
The camp had been set up as part of Operation Paperclip,
which saw more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers and technicians taken from the former
Nazi Germany so that they could be employed by the US government as part of the emerging
Cold War with the Soviet Union.
The Netflix documentary was made after the makers obtained interviews which the US National Parks Service had carried out in 2006 with veterans who spent time at
the camp.
Among them were Mayer and Wiess, who also spoke especially for the documentary.
Loushy told The Guardian that 'unbelievable' relationships formed between the Jewish guards 'and the Nazis who would've captured them'.
'Nobody knew about it, and the people who conducted the interviews never told anyone about it.
They didn't even tell their wives or children - they took this secret to their grave,' he added.
Now, after decades of being shrouded in secrecy, the facility
- which was part of the infamous Operation Paperclip - has been brought to
public attention in Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis,
which has been made by Israeli film makers Daniel Sivan and
Mor Loushy. Above: A scene from the animated film shows von Braun (left) and Jewish soldier Arno Mayer, who was tasked with
being nice to the German prisoners in the hope it would persuade them
to divulge information
Mayer said he was referred to by some of the German prisoners
as 'Der kleine Judenbube', which translates as 'the little
Jew boy'. 'You know in your best dreams or nightmares, you couldn't have expected to
become the morale officer of these high animals. 'I mean, the hatred within me
was so strong I couldn't, I couldn't resist it. Because as far as I was concerned, they were sons
of b*****s and I wanted them dead'
The soldiers guarding the prisoners were also given money to take them out to clubs, restaurants and even the cinema
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Arno Mayer (pictured left in 2002) and Peter Weiss (in the Netflix programme) were among the men tasked with being 'nice'
to the German prisoners, in the hope that they would
divulge crucial secrets about Hitler's weapons programmes
One animated flashback scene shows Jewish soldiers flooding a van with vacuum cleaner dust to make the prisoners inside it believe
that they were being gassed - the very fate met by millions of Jews in the Holocaust.
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