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.

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 ...

The parting gift of Wernher von Braun's staff on leaving Huntsville ... Reich's Nazi party with rank of major in the paramilitary SS, there is no mystery as to why he does not lie in Arlington ...

Nazidom’s power-grabbers began fighting for control of the weapon Hitler had approved, and in February 1944, Wernher von Braun was jailed by Heinrich Himmler’s black-shirted SS because he ...

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 ...