Automobilkonstrukteur und Gründer der Firma Porsche (1875-1951) u. Physiker und Raumfahrtpionier (1894–1989). „Operation Dustbin“. 4 album pages with 75 signatures. Schloß Kransberg bei Frankfurt. Qu.-gr.-8vo.
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Operation Dustbin". 4 album pages with a total of 75 signatures, including those of Hermann Oberth, Ferdinand Porsche, Fritz Thyssen, Hjalmar Schacht, Albert Speer, Ernst Heinkel, Ernst Wolf Mommsen, Annemarie Kempf, Bernhard Heydenreich, Kurt Blome, among others. An equally rare and interesting document of contemporary history. After the end of the war in 1945, the leading figures of German science, armament organizations, and technology were interned in the Anglo-American special camp "Dustbin" at Kransberg Castle near Frankfurt to be available for interrogation by the Allies.
Even as a prisoner, Hermann Oberth collected the signatures of the technical and economic intelligence of the Third Reich there. - The castle Kransberg, first mentioned in a document in 1250, had been integrated into the military complex Adlerhorst/Ziegenberg on Hitler's orders by Albert Speer and Fritz Todt during the war; after its use for "Operation Dustbin" until 1947, a branch of the Gehlen Organization, a precursor organization of the Federal Intelligence Service, moved in in 1956. Returned to the heirs of the former expropriated owner in 1994, it was sold by them to the current operator and is now used as a business center, among other things. - Enclosed are three original photographs showing Oberth in front of Kransberg Castle..