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The Film Studies Program and the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society present The U-Boat and the Rocket: The Fate of Two German Brothers in Postwar America.

Co-Producers:

  • John J. Michalczyk
  • Susan A. Michalczyk
  • William Callahan, Esq

Politics, science and ethics collide as the Steinhoff brothers arrive in America in 1945. Friedrich, a U-boat commander, surrenders his submarine in Portsmouth, NH, is brutally interrogated by Navy officials in Boston’s Charles Street Jail and allegedly commits suicide. His brother Ernst, recruited by Wernher von Braun to eventually supervise control and instrumentation of the V-2 rocket at Peenemunde, is welcomed through Operation Paperclip and is inaugurated into the International Space Hall of Fame. Two destinies in postwar America could not be more different.

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