Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun was a German-American rocket engineer central to both the V-2 programme and the United States space programme. He developed weapons for Nazi Germany using a system tied to forced labour, then worked for the United States and helped design the Saturn V launch vehicle.

In Robert Harris’s V2, German engineer Rudi Graf launches V-2 rockets from the occupied Netherlands, working beside Wernher von Braun under increasing SS suspicion.