France recruited Nazi engineers for space conquest in Vernon, historical study reveals

The city of Vernon in Normandy is revealed as the birthplace of French recruitment of Nazi engineers for the French aerospace and space program.

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This practice was common among Western powers after World War II.

It marks the moral ambivalence of early space race beginnings.

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