(Times of Israel) Matt Lebovic - SS General Hans Kammler, one of Nazi Germany's top Holocaust perpetrators, traded rocket-making secrets for freedom after the war. Kammler oversaw construction of the concentration camp system, including the killing facilities at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1 million Jews were murdered. "The Holocaust would not have been as 'efficient' were it not for Kammler," said Dean Reuter, author of The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America's Deal with the Devil, recently published in paperback. "He was integral to the evolution of mass murder." Reuter's book demonstrates that Kammler was "delivered" to U.S. authorities by rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, who feared Kammler's secrets - and colleagues - would fall into Russian hands. "Kammler and the Americans created the deal wherein he gave them the rocket team and they erased his past," Reuter told the Times of Israel. "As part of that deal, we covered up his death and the world accepted that he died." Kammler partnered with SS head Heinrich Himmler on the construction of "secret weapons," especially the V-2 rocket. Supersonic in speed, the rockets were churned out in massive quantities and could travel up to 300 miles, landing in London with terrifying explosions. Fortunately, Germany's V-2 rockets were not ready for use until October 1944, four months after the D-Day invasion. Beginning in 1945, 5,000 German scientists and technicians were brought to the U.S., including "severely tainted men who were involved in the Holocaust and the use of slave labor," said Reuter. German scientists helped the U.S. build intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and outpace Russia to land on the moon.
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