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3 unusual facts about Walter Thiel


Rocket engine nozzle

It has since been used in almost all rocket engines, including Walter Thiel's implementation which made possible Germany's V-2 rocket.

Walter Thiel

As the test stations were not ready yet, Thiel and his team stayed in Kummersdorf until 1940.

The contacts between the testing ground in Kummersdorf and Schumann’s Institute was close, the eastern part of the site in Kummersdorf served as an experimental base for Schumann’s institutes, in the west a group of scientists around Major Walter Dornberger carried out their experiments.



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