Our Hero, the Nazi
Posted August 11th, 2008 by Clicheophobe
I was born and reared to age eighteen in the town of Huntsville, AL. Werner Von Braun, the Nazi rocket engineer, had settled there after having been captured by the Allies at the end of WWII. That was long before I was born; I only knew him as the town hero, whom the civic center was named for. And he wasn’t the only one. So many Germans lived in our town during that time that all the speed limit signs were posted in both miles and kilometers. They worked at the Marshall Space Flight Center, where astronauts were trained and rockets tested. A few of their wives opened a German cuisine restaurant, The Old Heidelberg Kitchen, that was very popular.
