Wernher von Braun was vital to NASA's Apollo 11 mission to put a man on the moon, but this controversial 'American hero' had his Nazi past kept under wraps…

Cast List:

Dr. Katherine Landdeck: Texas Woman’s University 

Michael J. Neufeld: The National Air and Space Museum 

Shalina Patel: Historian 

Nigel Jones: Author & Historian 

Guy Walters: Author & Historian 

Bernd Crabs: Museum Kummersdorf

Magnus Brechtken: Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History

Philipp Aumann: Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum 

Stephen Waring: University of Alabama, Huntsville

Luisa Hulsrøj: Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp 

Michael Allen: Author, The Business of Genocide 

Eric Meyers: Narrator 

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