Herb Schaltegger wrote:

He (and the rest of the Germans from Operation Paperclip) were honored
quite nicely by the communities where they lived and worked. The big
civic center in Huntsville, AL is still called the Von Braun Civic
Center, and the MSFC headquarters building is still, to this day,
referred to affectionately as "the Von Braun Hilton".



It might be good to remember why exactly the Peenemunde team wanted to
fall into American hands at the end of the war; IIRC it went something
like this: "We were terrified of the Russians, we despised the French,
and the British couldn't afford us."
That's not exactly seeing the glow of Liberty's torch.
I think they were quite willing to jump into bed with anybody who
wouldn't enslave them and would give them the money to build rockets.

Pat