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    Michael Neufeld's book "The Rocket and the Reich" provides a definitive history of Germany's V-2 rocket project. It demolishes the notion that rocket scientists like Wernher von Braun were apolitical, showing they were aware of the slave labor used. The book also analyzes that the V-2 project was a military failure, providing less explosives than a single Allied air raid for more resources than effective aircraft. While it diverted some Allied efforts, the V-2 mostly missed targets and did not impact the war's outcome, only shortening it in the Allies' favor.

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    Michael Neufeld's book "The Rocket and the Reich" provides a definitive history of Germany's V-2 rocket project. It demolishes the notion that rocket scientists like Wernher von Braun were apolitical, showing they were aware of the slave labor used. The book also analyzes that the V-2 project was a military failure, providing less explosives than a single Allied air raid for more resources than effective aircraft. While it diverted some Allied efforts, the V-2 mostly missed targets and did not impact the war's outcome, only shortening it in the Allies' favor.

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    From: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A.

    Del Col)
    Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
    Subject: THE ROCKET AND THE REICH
    Date: 25 Jan 1995 23:23:38 GMT
    Message-ID: <3g6mhq$rka@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>

    I am currently reading Michael Neufeld's THE ROCKET AND THE REICH, the
    book that is, IMHO, soon to be regarded as the definitive history of the
    German V-2 project. Neufeld, curator of the WWII exhibits at the National
    Air and Space Museum, has used many previously unavailable resources in
    writing this book, and it is sure to supersede earlier efforts such as
    Walter Dornberger's self-serving V-2 and the assorted memoirs,
    festschriften and hagiographies by and about von Braun & Co.

    Neufeld demolishes what remains of the notion that the V-2 was
    developed by a group of apolitical rocket scientists whose real
    purpose was to promote space travel. He makes it quite clear that
    by their own testimony the chief designers of the V-2 were on the
    make to the German Army from 1932 onward and that they were well
    aware of the ghastly conditions under which the slave-laborers who
    built the rockets worked, lived and died.

    He provides clear technical explanations of the design of the rocket and


    the
    technical developments that made it a reality. His analysis of the cost
    effectiveness of the V-2 demonstrates that the entire project was,
    from a military standpoint, a colossal boondoggle that delivered
    a total weight of explosives far less than that dropped by the British in
    a single large air raid. The V-2 also failed as a terror weapon--the V-1
    Buzz-Bomb was much more frightening--and didn't
    even result in the diversion of any significant Allied effort to stop it;
    they realized they couldn't, so they didn't bother--it missed the target
    most of the time anyway. On the other hand the V-2 did divert
    substantial German resources away from projects (aircraft production
    for example) that would have contributed to the defense of the Reich.
    It shortened the war, but in favor of the Allies.

    ---Special Note for Pynchoniacs---

    Neufeld stresses the extreme secrecy of the entire German rocket


    development
    project from its very inception to its very end, a feature which shoots
    the hell out of the knowledgable adventures of Slothrop, Borgesius, et,
    al.,
    but,why expect facts from fiction, right?

    Any serious student of GR should read this book.

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