Declassified
Operation Paperclip: How NASA Hired Hitler's Scientists
Wernher von Braun held the rank of Sturmbannführer in the SS. Twenty thousand prisoners died building his V-2 rockets at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. After the war, the United States made him the father of the American space program. Arthur Rudolph supervised slave labor at Mittelbau-Dora. He designed the Saturn V rocket that landed Americans on the moon.