Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn ... to marry from the Race and Settlement Office, headed by Heinrich Himmler, an architect of the Holocaust. The handwritten “Führer!” ...

Jacob Tyler Hamlin, of Huntsville asks: "Was Wernher ... that von Braun was a communist sympathizer, and that he planned to escape to England with the plans for the V-2 , Heinreich Himmler ...

Born to an aristocratic Prussian family, Wernher von Braun became obsessed with space ... (The project also drew the interest of Heinrich Himmler’s Schutzstaffel (SS), which briefly imprisoned ...

Devastating invention Arguably Wernher von Braun’s biggest contribution was the V-2 rocket ... is urged to join the Allgemeine Schutzstaffel (SS) at the orders of Heinrich Himmler, a leading member of ...

Rocket Pioneers Wernher von Braun, Bernhard Tessmann and Karl Heimburg ... "In 1944, Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler tried to recruit von Braun into the SS," Heimburg said. "Von Braun told him ...

On May 2, 1945, just a few days before World War II ended and two days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Nazi scientist Wernher von Braun and his team of engineers surrendered to American ...

A group of German scientists led by Wernher von Braun realized the war was ending. The scientists decided it would be better to be captured by Americans than the Soviets, according to an article ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has announced that Maria von Braun, the wife of Dr. Wernher von ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — Maria von Braun, widow of rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun and a prominent figure in America's early space program, died Jan. 20 at her home in Alexandria. She was 96.

Wernher von Braun led NASA'S development of the Saturn ... to marry from the Race and Settlement Office, headed by Heinrich Himmler, an architect of the Holocaust. The handwritten “Führer!” ...