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[i]Few took the bait. One who did was Helmut Gröttrup, a physicist by training and a top expert on the V-2's flight control system. Historians have debated why Gröttrup turned down the offer to work in the United States, suggesting that it was a combination of his leftist views and his refusal to become a bit player on von Braun's team. Chertok thinks the primary reason was Gröttrup's wish — and the even stronger desire of his wife Irmgard — to stay in Germany. He doesn’t discount, however, the scientist’s left-wing politics. "He was what we would call a social democrat — definitely anti-fascist," Chertok recalls. For whatever combination of reasons, Gröttrup signed up with the Soviets, who established a rocket research institute in the town of Bleicherode, not far from the Mittelwerk plant...[/i]
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