Arthur Rudolph
Arthur Rudolph was born the November 9th 1906 and deceased on January 1st 1996. Member of NSDAP as of 1931, director of the operations to the factory of Mittelwerk to the Concentration camp Gilded-Mittelbau, the report/ratio of safety of the Alliés at the end of the Second world war made, about it, state of “100% Nazi, dangerous standard, threat of safety”. However, when JIOA took an interest, within the framework of the Opération Paperclip, for its scientific work, it corrected its file by there replacing information accusing by “nothing in the actual position does not indicate that he is a war criminal or a Nazi”. Consequently, Rudolph could acquire the American citizenship.
It was distinguished in particular by designing the lunar rocket Saturn 5 used for the Apollo, and accepted the highest reward of NASA: the Distinguished Service Medal. When an investigation into its past occurred in 1984, it gave up its American nationality and left the the United States to return in Germany.