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The true story of the secret program that brought Nazi scientists to the U.S.
After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space ...
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V2 to Saturn V: Werner von Braun's role in American missiles
As the Soviet Army closed in on the German rocket base in Peenemünde, the leader of the V-2 team, Wernher von Braun, decided he’d rather be captured by Americans than by Soviets. He and his ...
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How the Nazis Invented the Future of Modern War: The V-2 Rocket
Developed by Wernher von Braun, it was a feat of engineering wrapped in wartime ethics. The rocket paved the way for Cold War arms races and the space age. Explore its dual legacy of innovation ...
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Die V2: Deutschlands Raketenwaffe
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg erreicht die V2-Rakete eine Höhe von mehr als 100 Kilometern und dringt somit als erste in den Weltraum vor. Doch das Militärteam um Wernher von Braun bleibt weit davon ...
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Letzter Flugzeug-Absturz des Zweiten Weltkrieges
Vor genau 80 Jahren haben Hitlers Truppen kapituliert. Am 8. Mai 1945 verlor auch die US-Luftwaffe ihr letztes Kampfflugzeug ...
New York Post28d
CIA’s most audacious missions revealed —from Cold War condoms to fake sex tapes and mind control
By January 1946, two months after the Nuremberg trials had begun, there were more than 160 Nazis — most alongside their families — relocated to the US. Doctor Wernher von Braun explains the ...
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An Nord- und Ostsee
das munitionsbelastete Sperrgebiet der ehemaligen Heeresversuchsanstalt - in der Wernher von Braun, der "Vater" der US-Mondlandung, mit der V2-Rakete frühe Karriere machte - endlich voll ...
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Was World War II really the ‘good’ war?
Chris Bambery explains why the allies’ leaderships in the Second World War were fighting neither for democracy nor against ...