32. Hermann drop test memo, 2.7.38, NASM, Arch. 66/3.
33. Hermann to WvB, 20.7.39, in NASM, FE737; Haeussermann OHI, 19–20; Hermann, “Supersonic Wind Tunnel,” 442; Kurzweg, “Aerodynamic Development,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 52–53, 62; Kurzweg interview. WD, V-2, 57, says the drops began in September 1938, which is quite unlikely.
34. Kurzweg, “Aerodynamic Development,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 56–68; Hermann, “Supersonic Wind Tunnel,” 441–46; Aerodyn. Hauptabt., “Jahresbericht 1940,” 10.1.41, NASM, FE346.
35. Kurzweg, “Aerodynamic Development,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 53–54; Aerodyn. Hauptabt., “Jahresbericht 1940,” 10.1.41, NASM, FE346.
36. Patt proposal, 16.6.39, NASM, Arch. 71/1; WD Vortragsnotiz for Becker, 9.10.39, in NASM, FE746; “Entwicklungsstand der Gleiteraggregate am 1.1.1941,” 21.1.41, in DM (FE1604); Schirmer/LZ A-9 reports, 1941–42, NASM, FE65/1–65/22; Hermann, “Supersonic Wind Tunnel,” 443–44; WD memo, 12.7.43, in NASM, FE333.
37. Kurzweg, “Aerodynamic Development,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 60–61; Hermann, “Supersonic Wind Tunnel,” 443; Kurzweg interview; WD, V-2, 114–15; Aerodyn. Hauptabt., “Jahresbericht 1940,” 10.1.41, NASM, FE346.
38. Fieber, “Zur Geschichte,” 9; minutes of 9.11.37 meeting at Siemens in NASM, FE119; MacKenzie, Inventing, 46–47; Gievers, “Erinnerungen,” 265.
39. Minutes of 9.11.37 and 24.1.38 meetings with Siemens, in NASM, FE119.
40. Minutes of meetings with KG, 10.1.38, 15.1.38, 20.1.38, in NASM, FE119; Mueller OHI, 25–27.
41. Fieber, “Zur Geschichte,” 10; Karner, “Steuerung,” 47–52; MacKenzie, Inventing, 37–44; Möller, “Die Rechliner Dreiachsensteuerung,” 10.3.38, NASM, FE773.
42. Fieber, “Zur Geschichte,” Vorwort, 2, 19–22; Karner, “Steuerung,” 51–52; Otto Müller, “The Control System of the V-2,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 80–84; MacKenzie, Inventing, 53–55.
43. Schröder, “Steuerung des Aggregats IV,” 13.11.39, 32, NASM, FE303; minutes of meetings with KG, 15.1.38, 20.1.38, 14.2.38, and with Siemens, 24.1.38 and 5.4.38, in NASM, FE119; Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, 4–5, NASM, FE769.
44. Fieber, “Zur Geschichte,” 19–20; minutes of 3.2.39 meeting with Siemens in NASM, FE119; Mueller OHI, 38; Müller, “Control System,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 82.
45. Fieber, “Zur Geschichte,” 11, 24–26; Karner, “Steuerung,” 52, 64n61; minutes of 5.4.38 meeting at E-West, in NASM, FE119.
46. Würthner–Siemens D13 report, 15.4.40, NASM, FE461; Siemens minutes of 5.4.38 and 15–16.8.38 meetings with HVR in NASM, FE119.
47. Heizer/KG to HVP, 22.10.38, and minutes of 24.1.38 meeting with Siemens, in NASM, FE119; RLM/LC 5 to W. Riedel, 23.5.39, in NASM, FE746; WD to Wa Prüf 12, 13.7.39, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1313; Würthner D13 report, 15.4.40, NASM, FE461.
48. Möller, “Die Rechliner Dreiachsensteuerung,” 14.3.38, NASM, FE773; Askania-HVP corr. and meetings, 30.11.38–8.6.39, and TVA Eckernförde/Navy to HVP, 17.2.39, in NASM, FE119; WvB “Rundschreiben,” 30.8.39, in NASM, FE750.
49. WD (WvB) to Lucht/RLM, 28.4.39, in NASM, FE119; WvB, “Terminlage LF III,” 2.9.39, in NASM, FE750; Schröder, “Steuerung des Aggregats IV” 26–28, 13.11.39, NASM, FE303; WvB to Banse/RLM/LC 4, 9.1.40, in NASM, FE746.
50. Rudolph OHI, 72; Reisig OHI, 31; WD correspondence on Schröder, 1962, in DM, Luftfahrt/Persönlichkeiten/Männer, Dornberger files.
51. WvB, “Behind the Scenes,” 24, SRCH, WvB Papers; Steinoff FOIA release, INSCOM; Steinhoff to Zanssen, 18.1.40, in DM, (FE 1821); Mueller OHI, 46–47; Haeussermann OHI, 18–22; Hoelzer OHI, 67–68.
52. “Nachweisung der am 1.1.40 für VP. eingesetzten Arbeitskräfte,” in NASM, FE349; Haeussermann OHI, 5–6; Rees OHI, 5–6.
53. Stegmaier minutes of 14.9.39 meeting at TH Dresden, in NASM file “Peenemünde #2”; Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; Reisig OHI, 1989, 33–34, 42–46.
54. WvB Aktenvermerk, 8.7.39, on meeting with Kreiselgeräte, in NASM, FE119; Mueller OHI, 54–67; Gievers, “Erinnerungen,” 281, 284–85; Mueller, “A History.”
55. Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; Reisig OHI, 1989, 34–37; Steinhoff, “Development,” 207–8; Haeussermann, “Developments,” 226–28; Moore, “German Missile Accelerometers.”
56. Steinhoff (?) to Banse/RLM/LC 4, 5.9.39, Günther/RLM/LC 4 memo, 24.9.39; WD to Peenemünde, 25.4.39, Wa Prüf 11 Stab Vortragsnotiz for Becker, 9.10.39, and WD to RLM, 15.11.39, re 21.10.39 meeting of Becker, Milch, and Udet, in NASM, FE746.
57. Hoelzer OHI, 8–10.
58. Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; Hoelzer OHI, 14–21; Müller, “Control System,” in Benecke and Quick, History, 88–93.
59. Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; WD, V-2, 134–35; WvB dev. status report, 24.4.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; Ludewig memo on 4.12.41 meeting in NASM, FE727/a.
60. Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; Hoelzer OHI, 28–39.
61. Hoelzer OHI, 28–39; Haeussermann, “Developments,” 229–30; Tomayko, “Helmut Hoelzer’s,” 230–32.
62. Hoelzer OHI, 41–42; Tomayko, “Helmut Hoelzer’s”; Haeussermann, “Developments,” 229–32.
63. Steinhoff 1940 BSM report, 10.1.41, NASM, FE769; WvB dev. status report, 24.4.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WvB minutes of 4.8.41 meeting, in NASM, FE733; WvB minutes of 20.10.41 meeting in BA/MA, RH8/V.1954; Steinhoff minutes of 11.12.41 meeting in NASM, FE728/b.
64. Fieber, “Zur Geschichte,” 11, 29–30; Karner, “Steuerung,” 53; sources in note 63.
65. Dannenberg OHI, 42–43.
4. Peenemünde’s Time of Troubles
1. Rudolph OHI, 75–76; Franklin, American, 64.
2. Rudolph OHI, 76–78; WvB dev. report, 20.9.39, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1260; WD Vortragsnotiz, 14.12.39, in NASM, FE349.
3. Deutsch, Hitler, 220–30; Overy, Goering, 70–71.
4. Von Brauchitsch order to Becker, 21.11.38, in NASM, FE357; Reisig OHI, 1989, 64–65.
5. Schubert chronicle, 25.1.39, 20.2.39, and 20.5.39, and Schubert Vortrag, 7.6.39, BA/MA, RH8/v.1206; WD Vortragsnotiz, 14.12.39, in NASM, FE349; Rudolph OHI, 1989, 78, 81.
6. Schubert chronicle, 25.1.39, and Schubert Vortrag, 7.6.39, in BA/MA, RH8/V.1206; Schubert Aktennotiz, 18.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208b.
7. WD Vortragsnotiz, 14.12.39, in NASM, FE349; Schubert chronicle, 25.1.39, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1206.
8. Nuss, “Einige Aspekte;” Leeb, Aus der Rüstung, 16–17.
9. Schubert Aktennotiz, 18.10.41, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1208b; Schubert chronicle of 10.2.39, and draft letter to Speer, 12.10.39, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1206.
10. Schubert chronicle, 25.1.39, and Schubert Vortrag, 7.6.39, in BA/MA, RH8/v.1206; WD draft Vortragsnotiz for Hitler, 5.7.41, in NASM, FE342; Overy, “Mobilization,” 636–37; Overy, Goering, 158–60.
11. Rudolph Vortrag, 1.3.43, and Schubert to WD, 21.6.43, in BA/MA, RH8/V.1210; Rudolph OHI, 76–78; WD Vortragsnotiz, 14.12.39, in NASM, FE349.
12. Germany, Das Deutsche Reich, 1:470–72, 529–32; Overy, “Hitler’s War,” 274–75, 280–81; Schubert chronicle, 25.1. and 3.5.39, in BA/MA, RH8/V.1206; Heeresneubauleitung to Wa Stab, 28.3., and WD to W Rü, 31.3.39, in NASM, FE342.