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When asked if von Braun could have protested against the brutal treatment of the slave laborers, von Braun team member Konrad Dannenberg (a member of the Nazi party since 1932) told The Huntsville Times: "If he had done it, in my opinion, he would have been shot on the spot."
May 20, 2019 · Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn V rocket that took Apollo 11 to the Moon. His Nazi record was not widely known until after his death.
- American Experience
Oct 9, 2017 · Von Braun was born in Germany in 1912 to a well-connected noble family in the then-German Empire. He attended various schools in Berlin before graduating with a doctorate in physics in...
Jul 18, 2019 · Von Braun was one of about 120 German scientists who, in a then-secret U.S. project known as Operation Paperclip, were taken to the U.S. to develop military technology.
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- Alejandro de la Garza
Jan 1, 2008 · A rising star in the German army’s rocket program, Wernher von Braun led the development of the seminal V-2 missile and was a loyal follower of the Third Reich. After the war, he reinvented...
- Diane Tedeschi
Mar 6, 2022 · Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun played a massive role in getting NASA’s space program off the ground and into orbit. The former Nazi scientist then became the backbone of the United States’ burgeoning aerospace program — and even came to head NASA itself.
The one thing Americans need to remember is that Wernher von Braun and several of his key associates who ended up launching the first US satellite and astronaut and designing the Saturn V that sent Apollo astronauts to the Moon, had this Nazi past and were connected to these crimes.
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