Wernher von Braun: The Man Who Sold the Moon
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275962172 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Not a fair bio" according to A Customer. The author of this book had (as a previous reviewer stated) a hidden agenda, I think, in writing this bookMr. uh, Piszkiewicz (?), obviously doesn't like Mr. von Braun, and was out to paint him in a bad light. Proof of this lies in the last line of the book. "Sadly, because of his complicity with the Nazi cause, he also sold his soul to reach t. A biased biography, shallow and poorly researched. The book is an extremely biased account of Wernher Von Braun's life. It makes a strong effort to find "skeletons" in Von Braun's closet, but finally fails miserably in its intent. The fact that the German scientist was, during WW2, a member of the Nazi party and was commissioned by the SS shouldn't surprise anyone who knows how, in order to suc. A Customer said Biased. BIASED - That is, unbalanced research by a man who could easily have gone to some firsthand sources but who evidently reached his conclusions before he even bagan his study, then stuck to those conclusions, with all the skill of a lawyer deciding which evidence to select and exclude, in order to show us only one half of a man's face. We are the
This gripping, well-documented biography shatters von Braun's claim that he never witnessed maltreatment of prisoners?a claim buttressed by the U.S. missile arsenal during the Cold War, built rockets for NASA, helped put astronauts on the moon and designed Disney's Tomorrowland?was a major in the Nazi SS and one of Hitler's elite. citizen in 1955, was a national hero to many and prophet of the space age. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Including a history of the U.S.-Soviet space race, this biography makes a convincing case that he was also a war criminal, his past sanitized for expediency. Designer of Germany's V-2 rocket, which killed thousands of British civilians during WWII, von Braun supervised the rocket's construction at the Nazis' Mittelwerk factory, which used slave labor from the nearby Dora concentration camp. Moreover, in a letter to Mittelwerk's production manager, von Braun tells how he himself went to the notorious Buch
His interest in the history of science and technology inspired him to write The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War (1995) and From Nazi Test Pilot to Hitler's Bunker: The Fantastic Flights of Hanna Reitsch (1997), both published by Praeger.. DENNIS PISZKIEWICZ has been an enthusiast of space explor
By going on to promote NASA and sell the American people on his dreams of space exploration, he became the man who sold the moona man who began his brilliant career by selling his soul to the Nazis.. When the Third Reich collapsed, von Braun unashamedly switched his allegiance to the victor, and adroitly distanced himself from his Nazi partners. The book reveals that factions of the U.S. The man who tirelessly promoted space travel, worked with NASA to collaborate with Walt Disney creating television programs and the Tomorrowland section of Disneyland, and put the first astronauts on the moon, was actually a member of the Nazi party, held a rank in the SS equivalent to that of Major, and was an accomplice in the use of slave labor from the Dora concentration camp to produce his V-2 rocket. Perhaps no one in history has played the role of scientist as celebrity with as much skilland as much deceptionas Wernher von Braun. Army, in their zeal to have von Braun's team of scientists working for American interests, covered up what they knew about his