This recent find is from the Estate of Herbert Bergeler, one of the Original Operation Paperclip scientists to come to the Untied States of America with Dr. Wernher von Braun's team following WWII. Listing is for a **RARE** (in German) 1952 FIRST EDITION printing of "THE MARS PROJECT" by Wernher von Braun. Details below:
Book is in Good condition for use and age with some expected wear. Includes aging/storage wear mostly to the spine and front cover with some aging on pages. See last two pictures that show the bottom end of the front and back covers - both still attached, but can see the cardboard in between the outside and inside cover pages. Please see all pictures and condition description and to see More Vintage/Antique Collectibles from this Estate other Estates and several Picks just Click on my Store link and Thank you for Looking....

List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip

A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these Germans were former Nazi members and some worked with the leaders of the Nazi Party.[1][2]

Key recruits

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Aeronautics and rocketry

Many engineers had been involved with the V-2 in Peenemünde, and 127 of them eventually entered the U.S. through Operation Paperclip. They were also known as the Von Braun Group.[3]

Hans Amtmann[4]
Herbert Axster
Erich Ball[5]
Oscar Bauschinger[6]
Hermann Beduerftig[7]
Rudi Beichel[8]
Anton Beier[9]
Herbert Bergeler[10]
Rudi Berndt, expert in parachute development[11]
Magnus von Braun
Wernher von Braun
Ernst Czerlinsky
Theodor Buchhold [de]
Walter Burose[12]
Adolf Busemann
GN Constan[13]
Werner Dahm[14]
Konrad Dannenberg[3]
Kurt H. Debus
Gerd De Beek[15]
Walter Dornberger – head of rocket programme
Gerhard Drawe[16]
Friedrich Duerr[17]
Ernst R. G. Eckert
Rudolph Edse [de][18]
Otto Eisenhardt[19]
Krafft Arnold Ehricke
Alfred Finzel[20]
Edward Fischel[21]
Karl Fleischer[22]
Anton Flettner
Anselm Franz
Herbert Fuhrmann[23]
Ernst Geissler
Werner Gengelbach[24]
Dieter Grau
Hans Gruene[25]
Herbert Guendel[26]
Fritz Haber[27]
Heinz Haber
Karl Hager[28]
Guenther Haukohl[29]
Walter Häussermann
Karl Heimburg[30]
Emil Hellebrand[31]
Gerhard B. Heller[32]
Bruno Helm[33]
Rudolf Hermann[34]
Bruno Heusinger[35][36]
Hans Hueter[37]
Guenther Hintze[38]
Sighard F. Hoerner
Kurt Hohenemser
Oscar Holderer
Helmut Horn[39]
Hans Henning Hosenthien [de], Director of Flight Dynamics, Marshall Space Flight Center[40]
Dieter Huzel[41]
Walter Jacobi
Erich Kaschig[42]
Ernst Klauss[43]
Theodore Knacke[44]
Siegfried Knemeyer
Heinz-Hermann Koelle
Gustav Kroll[45]
Willi Kuberg[46]
Werner Kuers[47]
Hermann Kurzweg[48]
Hermann Lange[49]
Hans Lindenberg[50]
Hans Lindenmayer[51]
Alexander Martin Lippisch – aeronautical engineer
Robert Lusser
Hans Maus[52]
Helmut Merk[53]
Joseph Michel[54]
Hans Milde[55]
Heinz Millinger[56]
Rudolf Minning[57]
William Mrazek[58]
Erich W. Neubert[59]
Hans von Ohain (designer of German jet engines)
Robert Paetz[60]
Hans Palaoro[61]
Kurt Patt[62]
Hans Paul[63]
Fritz Pauli[64]
Arnold Peter[65]
Helmuth Pfaff[66]
Theodor Poppel[67][68]
Werner Rosinski[69]
Ludwig Roth[70]
Heinrich Rothe[71]
Friedrich von Saurma [de]
Martin Schilling[72]
Helmut Schlitt[73]
Albert Schuler[74]
Walter Schwidetzky[75]
Ernst Steinhoff
Wolfgang Steurer[76]
Heinrich Struck
Ernst Stuhlinger[77]
Bernhard Tessmann
Adolf Thiel
Georg von Tiesenhausen
Werner Tiller[78]
JG Tschinkel[79]
Arthur Urbanski[80]
Fritz Vandersee[81]
Richard Vogt
Woldemar Voigt, designer of Messerschmitt P.1101
Werner Voss[82]
Theodor Vowe[83]
Herbert A. Wagner
Hermann Rudolf Wagner[84]
Hermann Weidner[85]
Walter Fritz Wiesemann[86]
Philipp Wolfgang Zettler-Seidel[87]