German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie : making sense of the Nazi past during the civil rights era /

This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alab...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Laney, Monique (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Rocketry > Biography > 20th century.
Aerospace engineers > United States > Biography.
German Americans > Alabama > Huntsville > History > 20th century.
Ex-Nazis > United States > History > 20th century.
Ingénieurs en aérospatiale > États-Unis > Biographies.
Américains d'origine allemande > Alabama > Huntsville > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Anciens nazis > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General)
Aerospace engineers
Ex-Nazis
German Americans
Rocketry
Alabama > Huntsville
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From enemy aliens to valued citizens
  • Huntsville becomes the "Rocket City"
  • "I never thought of him as a foreigner"
  • Becoming Americans
  • "We just did not move in the same circles"
  • The Rudolph case
  • Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Huntsville.

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