Nazi Rocket Scientist to NASA Engineer: Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun was vital to NASA's Apollo 11 mission to put a man on the moon, but this controversial 'American hero' had his Nazi past kept under wraps…    Cast List: Dr. Katherine Landdeck: Texas Woman’s University  Michael J. Neufeld: The National Air and Space Museum  Shalina Patel: Historian  Nigel Jones: Author & Historian  Guy Walters: Author & Historian  Bernd Crabs: Museum Kummersdorf Magnus Brechtken: Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History Philipp Aumann: Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum  Stephen Waring: University of Alabama, Huntsville Luisa Hulsrøj: Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp  Michael Allen: Author, The Business of Genocide  Eric Meyers: Narrator  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices