The Nazi Rocket Philosopher Wernher Von Braun

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Wernher von Braun was a Nazi rocket scientist that helped win the space race. He was the most important rocket scientist to ever live. He was inspired by science fiction novels and books about space to study calculus and trigonometry. He studied in these areas to learn about the physics of rockets. Von Braun went and worked on rockets for Germany because he wanted to understand them more. Von Braun got his Ph.D. in physics in 1932. Braun was the leader of the people who made the rockets for the Nazis, at this camp they used force labor to build the rockets. Nobody can prove that von Braun supported this or not. The most important thing von Braun did while working in Germany was what he did in his secret lab. In his lab off on the coast of