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