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The German rocket pioneers, led by Wernher von Braun, were inspired originally by dreams of spaceflight in 1930s Weimar Republic. But the combination of economic depression and the enormous expense of their research led this group of dreamers to enter the employ of the army that funded their research, so long as the rocket team produced missiles for the Third Reich. In the throes of Germany's impending defeat, Hitler ordered their V-2 rocket into mass production at rates that required the use of slave labor from Nazi concentration camps. At war's end, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Americans; in the States, they continued building rockets that included the first ICBMs as well as the Saturn V, which took men to the moon. Piszkiewicz's retelling of their story portrays the Germans as willing participants in Nazi war crimes in an account that lacks the sympathetic slant of Frederick Ordway and Mitchell Sharpe's The Rocket Team (LJ 8/79) or the complexity of Michael Neufeld's The Rocket and the Reich (LJ 1/95). Given the ambiguities of the rocketeers' story, the recommended choice among the three accounts remains Neufeld's.?Thomas J. Frieling, Bainbridge Coll., Ga.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Piszkiewicz tells how the dream of space exploration was perverted by the complicity of its developers in Nazi military goals.... In the course of a decade's work as the inspirational figure and chief engineer in the program that developed rockets for Hitler, von Braun joined the SS, was promoted to major, and regularly curried favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust. In the final years of the war, construction of the rockets was carried out by slave laborers in two giant underground facilities... Thousands died of starvation and abuse, and mass executions were common. Yet at war's end von Braun and his colleagues thought only of how they might trade in on their skills to guarantee good treatment. They managed to continue their work in America virtually without interruption.... This is a gripping tale.Kirkus Reviews
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, The Nazi Rocketeers tells the true story of how these men enthusiastically participated in the Nazi cause and crimes.Jewish World Review
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The German rocket pioneers, led by Wernher von Braun, were inspired originally by dreams of spaceflight in 1930s Weimar Republic. But the combination of economic depression and the enormous expense of their research led this group of dreamers to enter the employ of the army that funded their research, so long as the rocket team produced missiles for the Third Reich. In the throes of Germany's impending defeat, Hitler ordered their V-2 rocket into mass production at rates that required the use of slave labor from Nazi concentration camps. At war's end, von Braun and his team surrendered to the Americans; in the States, they continued building rockets that included the first ICBMs as well as the Saturn V, which took men to the moon. Piszkiewicz's retelling of their story portrays the Germans as willing participants in Nazi war crimes in an account that lacks the sympathetic slant of Frederick Ordway and Mitchell Sharpe's The Rocket Team (LJ 8/79) or the complexity of Michael Neufeld's The Rocket and the Reich (LJ 1/95). Given the ambiguities of the rocketeers' story, the recommended choice among the three accounts remains Neufeld's.?Thomas J. Frieling, Bainbridge Coll., Ga.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
Piszkiewicz tells how the dream of space exploration was perverted by the complicity of its developers in Nazi military goals.... In the course of a decade's work as the inspirational figure and chief engineer in the program that developed rockets for Hitler, von Braun joined the SS, was promoted to major, and regularly curried favor with SS chief Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust. In the final years of the war, construction of the rockets was carried out by slave laborers in two giant underground facilities... Thousands died of starvation and abuse, and mass executions were common. Yet at war's end von Braun and his colleagues thought only of how they might trade in on their skills to guarantee good treatment. They managed to continue their work in America virtually without interruption.... This is a gripping tale.
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, The Nazi Rocketeers tells the true story of how these men enthusiastically participated in the Nazi cause and crimes.
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