"Rocket + The Reich" notes
Item
Title
"Rocket + The Reich" notes
Description
Handwritten notes by AMM in relation of the book "The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missle Era" (Omeka ID: 18091).
The Transcribed notes are as followed:
Key: <scratched out on the page> [unsure of word/educated guess] {are square brackets AMM inputted, used to differentiate from my own square brackets}
Transcription:
DVID “and the duty of a king conquered a father’s feelings” [re Iphigenia]
<April ‘98>
May ‘98
Rocket + The Reich
Jews not at Dora until summer ‘44
Penemunde on island of Usedom
“The Woman in the Moon” by Fritz Lang
Space-flight/ballistic weapon began [?] in Germany and revived together in U.S
The idealist utopianism of manned space flight has always gone hand in hand with [?] rocketry
8 “the {German} rocket had provided escapist entertainment for the new mass culture of the 20’s
The Transcribed notes are as followed:
Key: <scratched out on the page> [unsure of word/educated guess] {are square brackets AMM inputted, used to differentiate from my own square brackets}
Transcription:
DVID “and the duty of a king conquered a father’s feelings” [re Iphigenia]
<April ‘98>
May ‘98
Rocket + The Reich
Jews not at Dora until summer ‘44
Penemunde on island of Usedom
“The Woman in the Moon” by Fritz Lang
Space-flight/ballistic weapon began [?] in Germany and revived together in U.S
The idealist utopianism of manned space flight has always gone hand in hand with [?] rocketry
8 “the {German} rocket had provided escapist entertainment for the new mass culture of the 20’s
Creator
Books: Micheal Neufeld
Notes: Anne-Marie Macdonald
Notes: Anne-Marie Macdonald
Format
Handwritten notes
Subject
Notes on the Reich's involvement with rocket development in the West- mirroring Freid's relocation to Canada and then to the United States to aid in building rockets.
Source
From AMM's personal archive.
