Wernher von Braun Surrenders to the U.S.

German rocket engineer Wernher von Braun, center, surrenders to the U.S. Army in Ruette, Bavaria, on May 2, 1945. Pictured, from left, are U.S. Counterintelligence Corps agent Charles Stewart; Herbert Axster, wartime chief of staff at Peenemunde missile base; Dieter Huzel, assistant to von Braun; Wernher von Braun; Wernher’s younger brother, Magnus von Braun; and engineer Hans Lindenberg.

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