The Last Nazi Rocket Scientist

[Dave Monroe]

... well, can't find now the message which brought this up, but ... but
that Michael Neufeld's The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the
Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era, is excellent, and might well be of
interest to any and all here.  See also his essay (at least) in Monika
Renneberg and Michael Neufeld, eds., Science, Technology and National
Socialism.  A few other titles:

Yves Beon, Planet Dora: A Memoir of the Holocaust
    and the Birth of the Space Age

Dale Carter, The Final Frontier:
    The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State

John Gimbel, Science, Technology and Reparations:
    Exploitation and Plunder in Postwar Germany

Benjamin King and Timothy Kutta, Impact:
    The History of Germany's V-Weapons in WWII

Walter A. McDougall, ... the Heavens and the Earth:
    A Political history of the Space Age

Dennis Piskiewicz, The Nazi Rocketeers

Carter's The Final Frontier, of corse, would be of particular interest
here, weaving as it does in and out of Gravity's Rainbow--anybody here
familiar with it?  Any comments?  On any of the above?  Any other
references?  What might have been Pynchon's sources on the V-2, Dora,
Peenemunde, et al.?  Do have Walter Dornberger's memoir on the V-2, any
recommendations in re: Wernher von Braun?  Hope you all caught those old
(late 50's, early 60's) "Disney Presents" installments with him, not at
all out of character for Walt to give airtime to an ex-Nazi, apparently
...