The spectacular moon landing of 1969 was also the success of more than 100 NASA technicians and engineers from Germany. What hardly anyone knew at the time was that the Germans had already succeeded in building rockets for the Nazi regime. Among them was the infamous "V2", the production of which claimed the lives of thousands of forced laborers. The film "Operation Moon Landing - NASA and the Ex-Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
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