DARKEST MOON
August 10, 2023
THE NEXT OPPENHEIMER
They were brilliant. They delivered. They were Nazis.
DARKEST MOON is based on real events. The story is told through the eyes of the fictional Jim Black, a flawed hero whose narrative journey takes him from betraying his country and his family, to risking his life and sacrificing his liberty to bring a war criminal to justice.
Wernher von Braun lead NASA’s moon shot rocket program. He was the world’s first celebrity scientist and was handed America’s highest science medal in the Oval Office. In the war he lead the Nazi’s V2 ‘wonder weapon’ effort and was a major in the SS. His deputy in Germany, and in NASA, Arthur Rudolph, was also awarded America’s most prestigious science award. But then he became the only American citizen ever to be deported for war crimes as he was implicated in the deaths of 20,000 slave labourers at a war-time underground missile factory.
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