"We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured."
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Press statement after surrendering to U.S. Forces (May 1945)
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Wernher von Braun
1912 – 1977
deutsch-amerikanischer Raumfahrttechniker
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