The Nazi Rocketeers: Dreams of Space and Crimes of War Book

	Preface
1	When Space Travel Was Science Fiction	3
2	The P. T. Barnum of Rockets	15
3	The Baron's Son and the Soldier	23
4	The Birth of the Third Reich and the Death of Conscience	29
5	Rockets for the Reich	39
6	Rocket City: The Secret Base at Peenemunde	49
7	Casualties of the Blitzkrieg	59
8	The Architects of Destruction: The Men Who Built Armaments and Auschwitz	69
9	The First Spaceship and the Fuehrer's Dream	79
10	The Missile Arsenal: Demonstrations for Leaders of the Reich	89
11	A Command Performance for the Fuehrer	99
12	The Flames of Peenemunde	111
13	Rockets Rising from the Ashes	123
14	The Nazi "Metropolis": A Subterranean Rocket Factory	133
15	Dangerous Occupations: Rockets and Politics in the Third Reich	143
16	The Business of Death	151
17	The Plot to Kill the Fuehrer	163
18	Vengeance Weapon-2	171
19	"Compared to Dora, Auschwitz Was Easy!": Death and Survival in the Rocket Factory	177
20	Final Flights from Peenemunde: Von Braun Plans for the Future	183
21	Scorched Earth: Hitler's Solution to Defeat	195
22	The Alpine Redoubt: A Refuge and a Trap	207
23	Twilight of the Trolls: The Death of the Third Reich	215
24	Weapons for the Next War	227
25	Aged Rocketeers and Astronauts	239
26	Time's Vengeance on the Nazi Rocketeers	243
	References and Notes	247
	Index	261