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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Dornberger


Dornberger (on the left, with hat) together with von Braun, after their surrender to Allies in Austria, May 1945
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 Dinesh
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In addition to von Braun’s recent promotion to head of the Mittelbau-Dora Planning Office, he was also promoted to SS-Sturmbannfuhrer, of SS major. One of the benefits that came with this position was chauffeur-driven car to shuttle von Barum back and forth between Nodhausen and Berlin. It was in the back seat of this car on the night of March 12, 1945 that von Barun was nearly killed. As his car was speeding down the autobhan headed for Berlin, his driver nodded off at the wheel. The car veered off the road and hurtled down a forty foot embankment until it crashed on its side near a railroad track. The driver was knocked unconscious. Von Braub broke his arm. Both men lay bleeding in the codd, dark night when two of von Braun’s colleagues fron Nordhausen facilities designer Bernard Tessmann and architect Hanns Luhresen, happened to drive by and spot the smashed up car. They called the military ambulance, which came to the scene and transported von Braund and his driver to a hospital. ` Page 32

Von Braun and Dornberger were not captured. . . . . Since departing from Nordhausen several weeks before, von Braun, Dornaberger, and hundreds of other men from the rocket program had been hiding out in a remote ski village in the Bavarian Alps. Their resort, Haus Ingeburg, was located at an elevation of 3,850 feet along the windy mountain road then called the Adolf Hitler Pass (Oberjoch Pass). Thanks to the resources of the SS, the scientists had plenty of fine food and drink. There was a terrace and, as von Braun reflected after the war, little for any of them to do but eat, drink, sunbathe, and admire the snow-capped Allgau Alps. “There I was living royalty in a ski hotel on a mountail plateau,” von Braun later recalled, “The French below us to the west and the Americans to the south. But no one of course, suspected we were there. ~ Page 66
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 Dinesh
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By the end of January 1946, 160 Nazi scientists had been secreted into America. The single largest group was comprised of the 115 rocket specialists at Fort Bliss, Texas, led by Werner von Braun. The men resided in a two-story barracks on the Fort Bliss reservation and worked in a laboratory that was formerly the William Beaumont General Hospital. They ate in the mess hall shared with Native American Indians, which only enhanced von Braun’s perception that he was living life inside an adventure novel. “It is such a romantic Karl May affair,” von Braun wrote in a letter to his parents in Germany. . . . Page 219

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