So von Braun decided to cut a deal with America. He sent his little brother, Magnus von Braun, out on a bicycle. A private in the army from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, ended up training a gun on him, and Magnus said, “My brother is the great rocketeer Wernher von Braun.” Army intelligence checked it all out, and they found out it was true. Under a thing called Operation Paperclip, we brought all of those Nazi German rocket scientists to live in Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, as prisoners of peace, and to start building rockets for the U.S. Army out there, working in West Texas and New Mexico.
