A new Netflix film tells the incredible story of a top-secret US prisoner camp where Nazi
officers... 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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