Later, he was assigned to work in Oberammergau, a picturesque town in the Bavarian Alps with a lot of hidden significance.
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Oberammergau happened to be the location of a secret weapons facility that had been dug into the nearby mountains.
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Oberammergau was a crucial location for counterintelligence operations and the development of Operation Paperclip, the American program which secretly imported 1500 plus Nazi scientists.
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In fact, the designer of the V2 rocket and the future head of America's rocket program, Werner von Braun, had himself been apprehended by the allies at Oberammergau.
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His credentials, relocation to Oberammergau, fluency in German, and his prior experience in arresting and questioning ranking Nazis in Benchheim.
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