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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 192. Chapters: Wernher von Braun, Joachim Peiper, Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Otto Skorzeny, Eduard Roschmann, Michael Wittmann, Rudolf Hoss, Gustav Knittel, August Becker, Hubert-Erwin Meierdress, Oskar Dirlewanger, Ferdinand Porsche, Martin Sandberger, Franz Stangl, Christian Wirth, Erich Priebke, Hans Munch, Amon Goeth, Leon Degrelle, Aribert Heim, Klaus Barbie, Alfons Rebane, Josef Albert Meisinger, Otto Bradfisch, Kurt Gerstein, Kurt Franz, Rudolf Lange, Walter Rauff, Herbert Kappler, Johannes Juilfs, Alois Brunner, Leopold von Mildenstein, Rudolf Mentzel, Josef Spacil, Sigmund Rascher, Eduard Wirths, Kurt H. Debus, Rudolf von Ribbentrop, Helmut Pfeiffer, Lauri Torni, Hans Stark, Helmut Bischoff, Eduard Deisenhofer, Karl-Otto Koch, Hans Hanke, Bruno Gesche, Emil Wawrzinek, Erich Kern, Hanns-Martin Schleyer, Irmfried Eberl, Otto Weidinger, Kurt Becher, Erich Kempka, Herbert Jankuhn, Fritz Knoechlein, Georg Bochmann, Hermann Hofle, Otto Rahn, Albert Widmann, Walter Harzer, Hans Aumeier, Karl Wilhelm Krause, Christian Frederik von Schalburg, Walter Blume (SS officer), Heinz Barth, Paul Carell, Georg Konrad Morgen, Anton Thumann, Hermann Schaper, Werner Braune, Horst Schumann, Paul Egger, Walter Reder, Max Wunsche, Gunther von Reibnitz, Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Michael Lippert, Heinz Linge, Franz Konrad (SS officer), Waldemar Klingelhofer, Karl Rasche, Hanns-Heinrich Lohmann, Karlis Aperats, Rudolf Diels, Miervaldis Adamsons, Joachim Boosfeld, Hans-Martin Leidreiter, Karl von Krempler, Henri Joseph Fenet, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Fritz Darges. Excerpt: Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun (March 23, 1912 - June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and, subsequently, in the United States. In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's rocket development program, responsible for the design and realization of the V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some select members of his rocket team were taken to the United States as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip. Von Braun worked on the United States Army intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA. Under NASA, he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon. According to one NASA source, he is "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history." His crowning achievement was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969. In 1975 he received the National Medal of Science. Wernher von Braun was born in Wirsitz, Province of Posen, then a part of the German Empire, and was the second of three sons. He belonged to an aristocratic family, inheriting the German title of Freiherr (equivalent to Baron). His father, conservative civil servant Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1878-1972), served as a Minister of Agriculture in the Federal Cabinet during the Weimar Republic. His mother, Emmy von Quistorp (1886-1959), could trace her ancestry through both parents to medieval European royalty, a descendant of Philip III of France, Valdemar I of Denmark, Robert III of Scotland, and Edward III of England. Through Edward III, Von Braun would be a descendant of Mieszko I of Poland and Charlemagne. Von Braun had a y
