Format:
Online Ressource (xv, 302 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780300213454
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030021345X
Content:
This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government-assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950, Wernher von Braun and his team of rocket experts relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, a town that would celebrate the team, despite their essential role in the recent Nazi war effort, for their contributions to the U.S. Army missile program and later to NASA's space program. Based on oral histories, provided by members of the African American and Jewish communities, and by the rocketeers' families, co-workers, friends, and neighbours, Laney's book demonstrates how the histories of German Nazism and Jim Crow in the American South intertwine in narratives about the past
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Additional Edition:
9780300198034
Additional Edition:
0300198035
Additional Edition:
9780300198034
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Laney, Monique German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie
Language:
English
Keywords:
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Electronic books
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