German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (1912-1977), born in 1912 in Wirsitz ... Although he had been a member of the German SS and had used slave labor at Mittelwerk, the Nazi underground ...

He was also a member of the feared SS paramilitary group ... according to the book Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race. There are other accounts that ...

Learn about the pivotal role played by Wernher von Braun in saving the American space program and ushering in the Space Age.

Wernher von Braun (in suit) with German officers in 1941 ... Up to that time, although not enthused about joining the party and the SS, he’d been a fairly loyal member of the Third Reich ...

Wernher von Braun’s lineage can be traced back to the ... Von Braun visited Mittelwerk at least once; he was given a tour of the facility by SS guards in late 1943 when prisoners were still ...

The other day I ran into Dr. Wernher von Braun – in a very strange and unlikely ... to join Hitler’s political party and even the SS. Was it really that surprising? Or were all the pearl ...

Sadly, I must begin my column this week on a disenchanting note. Regardless of what you read, hear, or who says it, human beings will never colonize Mars. It’s a dumb idea. Mars has zero ...

Die Stadt Gersthofen hält nach jahrelanger Debatte an der umstrittenen Wernher-von-Braun-Straße fest ... er war NSDAP-Mitglied und SS-Sturmbannführer. Zur Herstellung der von ihm entwickelten ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von Braun, has passed away at 96. The rocket center said that Maria von ...

Wernher von Braun, received an unpleasant surprise. A West German court asked him to testify in the trial of three former SS men from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, which had supplied ...