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Chargement... Dark Side of the Moon: Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Racepar Wayne Biddle
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A stunning investigation of the roots of the first moon landing forty years ago, this illuminating story of the dawn of the space age reaches back to the reactionary modernism of the Third Reich, using the life of "rocket scientist" Wernher von Braun as its narrative path through the crumbling of Weimar Germany and the rise of the Nazi regime. Von Braun, a blinkered opportunist who could apply only tunnel vision to his meteoric career, stands as an archetype of myriad twentieth century technologists who thrived under regimes of military secrecy and unlimited money. His seamless transformation from developer of the deadly V2 ballistic missile for Hitler to an American celebrity as the supposed genius behind the golden years of the U.S. space program in the 1950s and 1960s raises haunting questions about the culture of the Cold War, the shared values of technology in totalitarian and democratic societies, and the imperatives of material progress. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The book is pretty well-written, but runs the risk of hitting the reader over the head with the thesis. Each chapter could be called, "Terrible things happening and how von Braun knowingly participated." The author clearly lays out how von Braun became an SS officer, knew the rockets he was building were weapons, and further he knew that slaves at Dora/Mittelwork were building the weapons under horrific conditions.
The book spends little time talking about von Braun's time in the US. One's lead to the conclusion that von Braun used his technical know-how to save him from the fate he deserved, execution or a life sentence. Unfortunately, this book has come out long after von Braun died and now few people remember him. ( )