>http://www.operationpaperclip. info/wernher-von-braun.php
Amongst his comments about his Nazi membership von Braun has said:
"I was officially demanded to join the National Socialist Party. At this time (1937) I was already technical director of the Army Rocket Center at Peenem�nde … My refusal to join the party would have meant that I would have to abandon the work of my life. Therefore, I decided to join. My membership in the party did not involve any political activities … in Spring 1940, one SS-Standartenf�hrer (SS Colonel) M�ller … looked me up in my office at Peenem�nde and told me that Reichsf�hrer-SS Heinrich Himmler had sent him with the order to urge me to join the SS. I called immediately on my military superior … Major-General W. Dornberger. He informed me that … if I wanted to continue our mutual work, I had no alternative but to join."
So technically Von Braun was not an ideological Nazi…