"We bombed his home"

[David Casseres]

I used to know a German Jewish mathematician, the father of a friend.
He once told me he had been acquainted with von Braun in graduate
school, at Heidelberg I think.

Once von Braun invited him to go sailing on a lake.  They got in von
Braun's small sailboat, and when they were out in the water, von Braun
mentioned that he'd never spoken with a Jew before.  It was all my
friend's father could remember about the encounter.

On 11/12/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Ex-POWs recall harsh times
>
> By Robert DeWitt
> Staff Writer
> November 09. 2006 3:30AM
>
> .....
>
> "After the war, Parrish met Werner Von Braun. He had participated in a raid
> during the war that bombed Von Braun's secret base at Peenemunde.
>
> "We bombed his home," Parrish said. "We hoped that he would be there and
> that we'd kill him. And now he was working for us." "
>
> http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061109/NEWS/611090349/1007/NEWS05
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