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Screening of Profs. John and Susan Michalczyk's new documentary "The U-boat and the Rocket: The Fate of Two German Brothers in Postwara America"

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 4pm to 5:30pm

Image of Screening of  Profs. John and Susan Michalczyk's new documentary "The U-boat and the Rocket: The Fate of Two German Brothers in Postwara America"
Boston College, Devlin 026 (rear of building) Free Event

Free Event

      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.