History of Space Exploration: Chapter 2, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution ====================================================================== ESTABLISHED (per the sources) Party membership from 12 November 1937; SS from spring 1940, promoted to Sturmbannführer in June 1943; visits to Mittelwerk 12 to 15 times. HIS CLAIMS He said he joined the Party in 1939 (records show 1937), that refusing would have meant abandoning his work, that he wore the SS uniform once (contradicted by a former SS officer), and that he never saw deaths. DISPUTED Whether he bears moral responsibility for the forced-labour deaths, and how much he saw. FBI and Neufeld conclusions are reported by the article, not independently checked.