The American ambassador to Israel met someone who planned the attack in which my son and I were injured. Big disappointment but little surprise.

After World War II, the US was presented with a moral dilemma. The Cold War followed hard on the end of the war, with Europe being split between Eastern and Western blocs. While Germany and Berlin were physically divided into zones of control, all of the world was beginning to align either with the US and its European allies or the Soviet Union and its bloc of nations freed from Nazism by the Red Army which never left. It was hard to believe that the Americans and Russians were allies against Hitler and Tojo when their facing off occurred almost immediately with the end of hostilities.

The moral problem related to German personnel. There were individuals from the SS, Nazi government and Whermacht who were positioned to help the US in various ways. Some could act as spies in the Soviet zones due to their access to East Germany and their not being suspected of espionage. There were those fluent in Russian whose assistance in understanding the new enemy would be critical. But none was as famous as SS major Wernher von Braun. The inventor of the revolutionary V2 missile was the undisputed father of the American missile program and the Saturn 5 rocket that put astronauts on the moon 56 years ago this month. von Braun tried to downplay his SS role, noting that virtually all professionals like doctors and lawyers were brought into the SS. The problem for von Braun was the existence of witnesses from the slave labor used to build his ballistic missiles. He could not shake........

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