Von Braun was the SS officer with a PhD in engineering who, in the early Thirties, was given a grant by Hitler to build experimental rockets. By 1942, his team had launched the world’s first long-range guided ballistic missile, the V2 rocket, which cost twice as much as the Allies atomic bomb and caused 9,000 casualties after thousands reigned down on London and Antwerp. But a year later ... Read even more
