An American in Exile: The Story of Arthur Rudolph

by Thomas Franklin

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916039048
• ISBN13: 9780916039042
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: C. Kaylor Co.
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tragic Abuse of An American Hero

This is the heart-breaking story of Arthur Rudolph, a German scientist who worked with Werner von Braun at Peenemunde, and who came to America with him to help launch the American space program. The Office of Special Investigations did their unconsciounable and inexcusable work to have the man give up his citizenship based on flimsy accusations that he was involved with using slave laborers at Peenemunde. (I wonder if the architects of Operation Keelhaul or the homicidal mania of Bomber Harris, who planned the destruction of the open and defenseless city of Dresden, the Florence of the North, will ever be denounced by our governments, American and British. It's funny how we, the hypocritical victors of WWII never own up to our own leaders' war crimes. But the usurpers of our society and government will go to enormous lengths four decades and more to hound people far less guilty than our own wartime leaders.) Rudolph contributed greatly to this country and this is how "we" (meaning the vindictive, barely human persecutors at the OSI) repaid him. It is a horrible, tragic story. The OSI persecutors themselves should be publicly shamed, but I would never want to get close to stooping to their level, so I wouldn't support legal action against them, although they are very, very guilty of gross misconduct. They are not real Americans, in any true sense. Arthur Rudolph was a true and great American, and other true Americans owe him our greatest gratitude for what he did for us and apology for what was done to him so incredibly shamefully in our name.