by William E. Winterstein, Sr. Lt. Colonel (Retired)

Could the history books be wrong?
The untold story of the German rocket team in America

History books say that Russian and American scientists deserve the kudos for developing the technology that launched the first satellite and put man on the moon. In Gestapo U.S.A. you'll find convincing evidence for quite another story:

    • The German rocket scientists could have launched an American satellite a year before Sputnik - but the government stopped the project.
    • In 1946 the German rocket team had the knowledge to send man to the moon within a decade, but President Kennedy announced in 1961 that we would develop the knowledge.
    • Federal investigators wrongly accused a member of the German team, Arthur Rudolph, of Nazi war crimes, and the government was guilty of gross misconduct in prosecuting him.
    • The investigators covered their tracks by claiming exemption from the Freedom of Information Act.

"With a relentless drive to restore historical truth, a former military officer and member of the Apollo team tells of an episode that has cast a dark shadow on the otherwise brilliant history of von Braun's rocket team in the land of its choice."
—Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, recipient of the 1993 Von Braun
Memorial Award. (Stuhlinger held the posts of Director of Research Project Laboratory, Army Ballistic Missile Agency; Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory and was the first Associate Director for Science at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.)

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