An American in Exile: The Story of Arthur Rudolph [Hardcover]

Thomas Franklin (Author)

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• Hardcover: 366 pages
• Publisher: Christopher Kaylor Co (November 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916039048
• ISBN-13: 978-0916039042
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,572,702 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tragic Abuse of An American Hero, January 20, 2006

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This review is from: An American in Exile: The Story of Arthur Rudolph (Hardcover)

This is the heart-breaking story of Arthur Rudolph, a German scientist who worked with Werner von Braun at Peenemunde, and who came to America with him to help launch the American space program. The Office of Special Investigations did their unconsciounable and inexcusable work to have the man give up his citizenship based on flimsy accusations that he was involved with using slave laborers at Peenemunde. (I wonder if the architects of Operation Keelhaul or the homicidal mania of Bomber Harris, who planned the destruction of the open and defenseless city of Dresden, the Florence of the North, will ever be denounced by our governments, American and British. It's funny how we, the hypocritical victors of WWII never own up to our own leaders' war crimes. But the usurpers of our society and government will go to enormous lengths four decades and more to hound people far less guilty than our own wartime leaders.)

Rudolph contributed greatly to this country and this is how "we" (meaning the vindictive, barely human persecutors at the OSI) repaid him. It is a horrible, tragic story. The OSI persecutors themselves should be publicly shamed, but I would never want to get close to stooping to their level, so I wouldn't support legal action against them, although they are very, very guilty of gross misconduct. They are not real Americans, in any true sense. Arthur Rudolph was a true and great American, and other true Americans owe him our greatest gratitude for what he did for us and apology for what was done to him so incredibly shamefully in our name.