Wernher von Braun, a former member of the SS who rebranded himself as an all-American hero in the 1960s - SuperStock / Alamy Stock Photo 31,228 people played the daily Crossword recently.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Devastating invention Arguably Wernher von Braun’s biggest contribution was the V-2 ... The author notes the inherent dichotomy in von Braun’s joining the SS in 1940 only to go on, in 1965, to ...

Wernher von Braun, der am 23. März 1912 in der preußischen ... Bereits im Jahr zuvor ist von Braun in die SS eingetreten. Verantwortlich für die "V2" In der Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde ...

Trotz aller Erfolge und allen Ruhms ließ die Vergangenheit Wernher von Braun nie los. Es wurde aufgedeckt, dass er 1937 der NSDAP und 1940 der SS beigetreten war. Dass er dem NS-Regime eine Waffe ...

There’s a complete V2 rocket in the exhibition, but even there, Wernher von Braun’s name is not prominently displayed. Von Braun, or to give him his full title, SS-Obersturmbannführer von ...

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 ...

The familiar story of Wernher von Braun, the SS member turned US visionary, gets rehashed in Channel 4’s Nasa, Nazis and the ...

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 ...