Von Braun

[Dave Monroe]

On 10/9/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Neufeld, Michael J.  Von Braun: Dreamer of Space,
>    Engineer of War.  New York: Knopf, 2007.
>
> http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307262929

"Twenty-five thousand in a year and one half," he said. He was 17
years old, Polish ... "twenty-five thousand in a year and one half.
And from each of these, there is only so much."  The boy cupped his
hands together to show the measure. I followed his glance downward. We
were standing at the edge of what had once been a large pit, about
eight feet long, six feet wide, and I guessed at six feet deep. It was
filled to the overflowing with ashes from the furnaces -- small chips
of human bone -- nothing else. Apparently bucketsful had been thrown
from a distance, as one might get rid of the ashes of a coal scuttle
on a rainy day.

--Charles A. Lindbergh at Dora, May, 1945 (Neufeld, Von Braun, p. 167)

Also @, e.g., ...

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=24232971

Quoting ...

Lindbergh, Charles A. Autobiography of Values.
   New York: HBJ, 1992 [1976].  248-9