Review: Camp Confidential America’s Secret Nazis

As COVID-19 continues to fade as being one of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind, Netflix’s Camp Confidential America’s Secret Nazis pops in for a quick 30 minutes to remind us all that human beings are just as capable of mass extermination as any disease is. In the case of WW2, obviously the horrors of the holocaust will never be forgotten, but what about the secret wars that were happening behind the scenes while our brave soldiers were fighting overseas. These involve just as brave soldiers who were part of a base known as PO BOX 1142, Jewish soldiers tasked with keeping captured German scientists happy with the intention that the US Government would be able to ascertain important secrets in the realm of rocket science that help sow the seeds for what would be the eventual Cold War with Russia.

The animated docu-series features interviews with the actual soldiers that were enlisted to work the PO BOX 1142 operation spliced with animated recreations of what the scene must have been like during these trying times. With a short run time of only 35 minutes I can’t help but think that this could have been easily a ninety-minute piece, but what we did get was a good serving for fans of WW2 history and even animated docu-series in general. The American soldiers that are captured as part of the interview session clearly showcase internal strife that is still very much there all these decades later. At the end of the day, these soldiers understand they were just following orders, but are clearly annoyed by a number of these orders which included wining and dining Nazi soldiers. These same Nazi soldiers that were part of a movement to exterminate Jews get a paycheck that was probably a lot more than these Jewish soldiers made in their lifetimes. But without these Nazi soldiers’ contributions to rocket science,–NASA, nuclear armament, and more probably never happen.