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German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie : making sense of the Nazi past during the civil rights era / Monique Laney.
LIBRA TL781.85.A1 L36 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laney, Monique, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rocketry--20th century--Biography.
- Rocketry.
- Ex-Nazis.
- History.
- German Americans.
- United States.
- Alabama--Huntsville.
- Aerospace engineers--United States--Biography.
- Aerospace engineers.
- German Americans--Alabama--Huntsville--History--20th century.
- Ex-Nazis--United States--History--20th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.
- Contents:
- From enemy aliens to valued citizens
- Huntsville becomes the "Rocket City"
- "I never thought of him as a foreigner"
- Becoming Americans
- "We just did not move in the same circles"
- The Rudolph case
- Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Huntsville.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300198034
- 0300198035
- OCLC:
- 894310406
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