which covers this in depth.

That is, you'l need to read it after I finish it. This will probably require a trip to Moscow to go through the SS archives; Mishin is dead now, I think Yuri Mozhorin is still alive, and worked in Chzechoslovakia with the Himmler papers...

of course, there are more pressing problems, such as recovering the asteroid and comet impact rate, and then there's the science fiction, and my own emotional needs to keep functioning, as well as my own intellectual interests and curiousity...
and then there's the small matter of raising the cash, and extremely large amounts of it... first things first.

That said, Dora was an SS operation, under Himmler, not von Braun. von Braun's own forced labor factory at Peenemunde was humane, as near as I know.

But that's little excuse for building weapons for a madman. Of course, few Germans initially realized how mad Hitler was... What's interesting is looking at their reactions when they realized this...

The Brits most likely would have shot von Braun, given the rocket attack on London, and the same for the French, given the experiences their prisoners endured at Dora; the Russians would simply have worked him to death. He surrendered to the US.

The bright spot in all of this is the possibility of redemption. von Braun emerged from this a moral man, and those Jews and African Americans who worked with him afterward all testify to this.

But there's more. In fact, several hundred pages more...

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