Walter Dornberger
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Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other proje
Portrait of Major General Walter Dornberger taken during captivity, 1945
Dornberger (left) with Wernher von Braun (in civilian clothes) in Peenemünde, February 1941
Dornberger (on the left, with hat) together with von Braun, after their surrender to Allies in Austria, May 1945
Wernher von Braun
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect. He led the development of German rocket technology in World War II, during which time he beca
Walter Dornberger
…subsequently issued a contract for a demonstration launch. On 21 December 1932, Captain Dornberger watched a rocket motor explode at Kummersdorf while Wernher von Braun tried to light it with a flaming gasoline can at the end of a four-meter-long (13 ft) pole. In 1933, Waffenamt Prüfwesen (Wa Prüf, English: "Weapons…
Von Braun in 1964
Von Braun with Fritz Todt, who utilized forced labor for major works across occupied Europe. Von Braun is wearing the Nazi party badge on his suit lapel.
A regular He 112