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The Nazi Rocketeers
Author | : Dennis Piszkiewicz |
Publsiher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0811733874 |
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Describes how Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun, and their colleagues progressed, from the innocent dream of the V-2 ballistic missile, to the transfer of their technological legacy to the Americans.
German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie
Author | : Monique Laney |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300198034 |
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This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community at the end of World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the Nazi war effort a decade earlier, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, the rocketeers' families, and co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the “Space Race,” and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country's own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.
German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie
Author | : Monique Laney |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-06-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300213454 |
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This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government–assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA’s space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and by the rocketeers’ families, co-workers, friends, and neighbors, Laney’s book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past. This is a critical reassessment of a singular time that links the Cold War, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights era while addressing important issues of transnational science and technology, and asking Americans to consider their country’s own history of racism when reflecting on the Nazi past.
Wernher Von Braun
Author | : Dennis Piszkiewicz |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998-11-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780275962173 |
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This is the biography of the German man who created the V-2 rocket and came to the United States to develop missiles.
Wernher Von Braun
Author | : Dennis Piszkiewicz |
Publsiher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1998-11-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105023123776 |
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This is the biography of the German man who created the V-2 rocket and came to the United States to develop missiles.
Oberammergau in the Nazi Era
Author | : Helena Waddy |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2010-05-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199707799 |
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In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold. She uses Oberammergau's unique history to explain why and how genuinely some villagers chose to become Nazis, while others rejected Party membership and defended their Catholic lifestyle. She explores the reasons for which both local Nazis and their opponents fought to protect the village's cherished identity against the Third Reich's many intrusive demands. She also shows that the play mirrored the Gospel-based anti-Semitism endemic to Western culture.
Peenemunde The German Experimental Rocket Center Introduction
Author | : David Myhra PhD |
Publsiher | : RCW Technology & Ebook Publishing |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2013-09-28 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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This is the story and details of Peenemünde, the German military rocket developement and test siteduring World War II. It was one of the most modern technological facilities in the world in the years between 1936 and 1945. The first launch of a missile into space took place here in October 1942. In the nearby air force testing area, rocket engineers tested numerous flight objects equipped with revolutionary technology. From the start this research was directed toward one goal only: achieving military superiority through advanced technology. Slave laborers, concentration camp inmates and prisoners of war provided the work that enabled the construction of the test sites and the later serial production of the rockets, which the Nazi propaganda referred to as "Vergeltungswaffe 2" (or "Vengeance Weapon 2"), in so short a period of time. Both the inhumane labor conditions and the attacks on Belgian, British and French cities using the supposed "wonder weapon" claimed thousands of lives.
Von Braun
Author | : Michael Neufeld |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2017-04-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780525435914 |
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Curator and space historian at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum delivers a brilliantly nuanced biography of controversial space pioneer Wernher von Braun. Chief rocket engineer of the Third Reich and one of the fathers of the U.S. space program, Wernher von Braun is a source of consistent fascination. Glorified as a visionary and vilified as a war criminal, he was a man of profound moral complexities, whose intelligence and charisma were coupled with an enormous and, some would say, blinding ambition. Based on new sources, Neufeld's biography delivers a meticulously researched and authoritative portrait of the creator of the V-2 rocket and his times, detailing how he was a man caught between morality and progress, between his dreams of the heavens and the earthbound realities of his life.