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Giessen, Germany
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German
Education
Technische Universität Berlin
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♍ Virgo
Chinese Zodiac
羊 Goat
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English < Proto-Indo-European (*h₂welh₁-)
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Walter Dornberger: German general (1895–1980).
Born in Giessen (died at age 84).
Studied at Technische Universität Berlin.
Biography
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 crimes, to work for some decades in high positions in aerospace, including for Bell Aircraft and Boeing.
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