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Author Laney, Monique, author.

Title German rocketeers in the heart of Dixie : making sense of the Nazi past during the civil rights era / Monique Laney.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]

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Location Call No. Status
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  629.4092 LANEY    Check Shelf
Description xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-292) and index.
Contents From enemy aliens to valued citizens -- Huntsville becomes the "Rocket City" -- "I never thought of him as a foreigner" -- Becoming Americans -- "We just did not move in the same circles" -- The Rudolph case -- Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Huntsville.
Subject Rocketry -- Biography -- 20th century.
Aerospace engineers -- United States -- Biography.
German Americans -- Alabama -- Huntsville -- History -- 20th century.
Ex-Nazis -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780300198034 (alkaline paper)
0300198035 (alkaline paper)
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