🎧 NEW PODCAST EPISODE: In this week's 'LA Made: Blood Sweat & Rockets,' we inspect government subterfuge when the United States enacts a top secret operation to expand its rocket research after the fall of Nazi Germany.
, we inspect government subterfuge when the United States enacts a top secret operation to expand its rocket research after the fall of Nazi Germany.At the end of World War II, Allies are snatching up spoils of war from conquered Germany. The United States has its sights set on absorbing the Nazi V-2 missile program, thanks to the wartime research of German facilities by JPL scientists Theodore von Karman and Tsien Hsue-Shen.
Prominent rocket scientist and former SS officer Wernher von Braun, along with hundreds of German scientists, are smuggled into the states under the auspices of preventing classified intelligence from falling into Russian hands. But anti-Nazi U.S. will have to turn a blind eye to the unsavory political allegiances of its new guests.
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