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Walter Dornberger
Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. After the war, the US Nazi scientist recruitment programme Operation Paperclip saw him move to the US, largely avoiding punishment for involvement in war cr…
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Born 6 September 1895 · Died 27 June 1980 · Q60546
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1980· 1 entry
Died 1980-06-27.
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1935· 1 entry
Dornberger received an honorary doctorate, which Col
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1933· 1 entry
Waffenamt Prüfwesen (Wa Prüf, English: "Weapons Testing") 1/1, under the Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Department), commenced work under the direction of Colonel Ing
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1914· 1 entry
Enlisted in the German army during World War 1
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1895· 1 entry
Born 1895-09-06.
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