Wernher von Braun

The Files

• The Hitler and the Moon Base — Rocket engineer whose wartime V-2 work and later lunar advocacy made him central to the theory.
• Operation Paperclip — Rocket scientist — later led NASA programs
• The Operation Paperclip Precursor — The central symbolic figure linking German wartime rockets, postwar U.S. capture policy, and later spaceflight.
• The American and the Nazi Scientist Swap — Most prominent German rocket engineer brought to the United States, often used as the emblem of Paperclip.
• The Operation Paperclip Occultists — Most famous Paperclip recruit; his presence helped make the entire program a lasting symbol of secret postwar compromise.

Connected Figures & Organizations

• NASA · 3 shared
• Harry S. Truman · 2 shared
• U.S. Army · 2 shared
• Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency · 2 shared
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 1 shared
• Adolf Hitler · 1 shared
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 1 shared
• National Air and Space Museum · 1 shared
• Peenemünde Army Research Center · 1 shared
• Walter Dornberger · 1 shared
• Michael J. Neufeld · 1 shared
• Arthur Rudolph · 1 shared

Timeline

1. 1942The Hitler and the Moon Base
2. 1943The Operation Paperclip Precursor
3. 1945Operation Paperclip
4. 1945The Operation Paperclip Occultists
5. 1945The American and the Nazi Scientist Swap