Time To Surrender

One man faced the decision of who to surrender to during WWII. Wehner Von Braun designed and headed up the construction of Germany’s V-2 Combat Rocket was an amazing scientist. Near the end of the war, he found himself near the city of Peenemünde, where he would be captured by the Soviets if he did not take any action. He held a meeting with his fellow scientists to consider whether they should surrender to the Soviets or the Americans because they knew they would have to surrender to somebody, and they decided that it would be better to surrender to the Americans.

So he developed fake documents and had him and his team of scientists transferred to Mittlemark, an area that looked like it would be taken over by the Americans.

On his way there, he was in a serious car wreck. When he woke up in the hospital, he had them just set his arm so that he could get out of there asap because he didn’t want to be taken by the Soviets and wanted to make it to the Americans. He knew that a messed up arm was far less worse than surrendering to the Soviets. Later, he would have to have it rebroken and reset. But he made it to Mittlemark and waited for the American troops to arrive.

The rest is history. After his surrender to the Americans, Von Braun went on to develop the Jupiter – C rocket, which launched America’s first satellite into space, and was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket, which took Americans to the moon.