During World War II, Nazi Germany developed rocket technology that was more advanced than that of the Allies and a race commenced between the Soviet Union and the United States to capture and exploit
V-2 rocket launching, Peenemünde, on the north-east Baltic German coast (1943)
Soviet R-1 on Vidal carrier (1948)
Operation Osoaviakhim
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Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German scientists, engineers and technicians, who worked in several areas from companies and institutions relevant to milit
Return of the last prisoners of war from the Soviet Union, 1958
Helmut Gröttrup explaining the basic principles of rockets (1958). He returned from USSR to Germany in 1953.