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WERNHER VON BRAUN

W ernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun was born on 23 March 1912 in the town of Wirsitz in Poland. He was part of an aristocratic family, with his father serving as minister of agriculture during the Weimar Republic and his mother having royal

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