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A meeting of Germany's early rocket pioneers, including Rudolph Nebel at left, Hermann Oberth, to the right of the rocket, Klaus Riedel, holding the small rocket, and behind him the dapper young Wernher von Braun. After t h e rise of Hitler, von Braun found himself with a new circle of acquaintances, as w e l l as a new research facility at Peenemunde.