Description: Wernher von Braun was -- America's leading rocket expert and most enthusiastic advocate of space travel; however, before all of this, he was the creator of Nazi Germany's most advanced terror weapon, the V-2 rocket. This first critical biography of von Braun details his achievements as a scientist and engineer as well as his advocacy of space exploration, which ultimately led to the Apollo expeditions to the moon. It also tells of von Braun's complicity in the Nazi cause and its crimes, and the conspiracy by factions within the United States government to hide his tainted past. Washington officials concealed evidence of von Braun's membership in Nazi organizations, his rank of Major in the SS, and war crimes committed at the Dora concentration camp, where slave labor built the V-2.

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