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 ...

Its top scientists, most notably rocket-designer Wernher von Braun, were at best close associates of Nazis. Its basic technologies were derived from Nazi superweapons, in particular von Braun’s ...

Selbst Ruth Kraft, im Peenemünde der Nazis technische ... der V2, wollte das damalige, nach der Wende gegründete Peenemünde-Informationszentrum eine Art Wernher-von-Braun-Festival inszenieren ...

Documentary exploring the role played by pardoned Nazi scientists in the moon landings. Using newly declassified documents, this programme reveals how America turned a blind eye to Nazi atrocities, ...

On May 2, 1945, just a few days before World War II ended and two days after Adolf Hitler committed suicide, Nazi scientist ...

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 ...

A quotation by Wernher von Braun, a NASA scientist who had worked for the Nazis during World War II, was removed from a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Huntsville, Alabama, months after the ...

They seemed like good people, not at all like the evil Nazis I had read ... There’s a complete V2 rocket in the exhibition, but even there, Wernher von Braun’s name is not prominently displayed.