The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War Hardcover - 1995
by Dennis Piszkiewicz
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In the late 1920s, Hermann Oberth, an early theoretician of space travel, told the world of his plan for using liquid-fueled rockets as vehicles for space travel. To his surprise and delight, he found himself with a group of young German disciples, prominent among them Wernher von Braun, who wanted to turn this dream into reality. During the years of the Third Reich, with von Braun as their technical leader, these men developed the first modern rockets and were in attendance at the birth of the Space Age. Although von Braun and his fellow rocket scientists dreamed of exploring space, they readily embraced the goal of creating weapons of terror and mass destruction. The myth they encouraged after the war described them as brilliant visionaries whose genius was exploited by the Nazi regime. Now, fifty years later, The Nazi Rocketeers tells the true story of how these men enthusiastically participated in the Nazi cause and crimes. The Nazi Rocketeers describes how Hermann Oberth, Wernher von Braun, and their colleagues progressed, from the innocent dream of space travel, through the development of the V-2 ballistic missile, to the transfer of their technological legacy to the Americans. Other notable Nazi Rocketeers are Army General Walter Dornberger, career soldier and von Braun's mentor; Albert Speer, technocrat and advocate of the rocket as a weapon; and SS General Hans Kammler, architect of Auschwitz and director of the V-2 rocket war. This book tells how Wernher von Braun and several of his fellow rocket scientists were early and active members of the Nazi movement; von Braun was both a member of the Nazi party and a major in the SS. For their service to the Nazi cause, they werehonored by the Third Reich and by Hitler himself. Most damning is the revelation that they actively collaborated with the SS in the exploitation of concentration camp slave labor to build the V-2 missile. This rocket, when used as a weapon, killed thousands; yet tens of thousands of prisoners died at the Dora concentration camp, where the rockets were built under the direction of the SS and the rocket scientists. The Nazi Rocketeers tells the story of the technical genius and moral corruption of the creators of the first modern rockets.
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- Title The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War
- Author Dennis Piszkiewicz
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Praeger, Westport, CT
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9780275952174 / 0275952177
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.54 x 6.46 x 1.09 in (24.23 x 16.41 x 2.77 cm)
- Reading level 1150
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Atrocities, War crimes
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-10102
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Citations
- Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/1995, Page 1261
- Library Journal, 09/15/1995, Page 82
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