How is that? While Raiders was set when the National Socialists ruled Germany, the new movie takes place roughly 30 years later. The twist is that in the new movie the German Nazi villain, a physicist, had moved to America toward the end of or after World War II and, under an assumed name, played a celebrated role in the advancement of the American space program.

The means of this trajectory for the villain is not explained in the new movie. But, it is a trajectory that is quite similar to that of other German scientists after World Wat II that was facilitated by a United States government's Project Paperclip.

Project Paperclip brough many German scientist to America, including some whose pasts would have made them subjectable to war crime prosecution. While US officials proclaimed the need to achieve justice in the Nuremberg Trials, allowances were made so scientists who could advance US technology for military and other purposes could be brought out of Europe, including secretly, and set up with new lives in America.