HardThrasher
Published 9 Apr 2024How did one man, Rolf Engels, go from student, to victim, to head of the SS Rocket Weapons programme reporting directly to Himmler? How did the Nazi state work, and how did a man like Rocket Rolf navigate the game of snakes and ladders and somehow come out on top?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasse… – a brief bio of Otto and Gregor Strasser’s careers and “thoughts”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfve… – The Strasser-run press
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksge… – The community idea behind the Nazis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_vo… – Key Ally of von Papen, former head of state and man who ultimately initiated Hitler’s rise to the Chancellorship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_v… – Franz von Papen – conservative politician who brought Hitler into power thinking he could control him
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_vo… – former head of the German Army, and President of the Weimar Republic who approved Hitler’s appointment to the Chancellorship
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breslau… – One of the “wild” concentration camps
Michael J. Neufeld: “Rolf Engel vs. the German Army. A Nazi Career in Rocketry and Repression”. In: History and Technology. Volume 13, No. 1, 1996, ISSN 0734-1512, pp. 53–72
Rolf’s CIA file – https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/…
Fritz Lang’s “Woman in the Moon” (German “… Frau in Mund film
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel-RAK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_R…
https://www.thecollector.com/alsace-w… – Alsace in WW2
https://www.memorial-alsace-moselle.c… – French view of the German re-occupation of Alsace
https://english.radio.cz/czech-episod…
https://epizodsspace.airbase.ru/bibl/…
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/… – Germany 1934
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/…
February 12, 2026
Inside the Nazi State: One Man’s Descent Into Darkness
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