![]() citizen in 1955, was a national hero to many and prophet of the space age. Moreover, in a letter to Mittelwerk's production manager, von Braun tells how he himself went to the notorious Buchenwald camp to arrange for the transport of more prisoners to Mittelwerk. SS Major von Braun made at least one ""official visit of inspection"" to Dora in 1944 and participated in a Nazi administrative meeting at Mittelwerk to discuss bringing in a thousand French civilians as slave laborers over 700 of them later died there. Space historian Piszkiewicz (The Nazi Rocketeers) synthesizes available bits of information that prove von Braun's complicity. Army in its attempts to cover up von Braun's Nazi record to facilitate his entry into the U.S. This gripping, well-documented biography shatters von Braun's claim that he never witnessed maltreatment of prisoners-a claim buttressed by the U.S. Designer of Germany's V-2 rocket, which killed thousands of British civilians during WWII, von Braun supervised the rocket's construction at the Nazis' Mittelwerk factory, which used slave labor from the nearby Dora concentration camp. missile arsenal during the Cold War, built rockets for NASA, helped put astronauts on the moon and designed Disney's Tomorrowland-was a major in the Nazi SS and one of Hitler's elite. ![]() ![]() Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-77)-who helped develop the U.S. ![]()
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