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Robert Pearlman
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posted 03-18-2019 12:14 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
For those in the Huntsville, Alabama area, an estate sale offering the possessions of Operation Paperclip member Ernst Stuhlinger is set to begin Tuesday, March 19.
This is a home on the bluff of Rowe Drive and belonged to a German scientist who worked with Werner Von Braun so do we ever have collectibles!! This home is filled with scientific maps, posters, first editions that are signed along with lots of space and other equipment used in development. We have high end microscopes and other implements which were key to rocket science and the history of the Huntsville area.

We will be taking reservations by Visa beginning on Monday morning and going through Monday at 5. The home will open on Tuesday and again on Friday and Saturday at the posted hours.

MCroft04
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posted 03-18-2019 12:58 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for MCroft04   Click Here to Email MCroft04     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I had the good fortune to have dinner with Ernst's son last Thursday while in Huntsville. He has done all the planning for this estate sale and it didn't happen overnight. Looks like some great stuff will be available.

minipci
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posted 03-20-2019 09:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for minipci     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Am I seeing things, or is that an SS logo on the Lafayette four track solid state reel-to-reel tape player (photo 364)?

1202 Alarm
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posted 03-20-2019 10:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for 1202 Alarm   Click Here to Email 1202 Alarm     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Looks like, indeed. That or perhaps he was just a member of the KISS army...

SpaceAholic
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posted 03-20-2019 11:30 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SpaceAholic   Click Here to Email SpaceAholic     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Clearly added after purchase (Lafayette did not utilize or apply any corporate logos closely approximating the SS symbol). Though the company existed prior to WWII, the tape recorder is a solid state device so its production would have occurred well after Stuhlinger was brought to America.

spacehiker
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posted 03-20-2019 04:51 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spacehiker   Click Here to Email spacehiker     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Was Stuhlinger in the SS during WWII like Von Braun and Debus?

minipci
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posted 03-21-2019 09:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for minipci     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This website page states that he was in the Wehrmacht in WW2, not the SS.

Jurg Bolli
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posted 03-21-2019 06:04 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jurg Bolli   Click Here to Email Jurg Bolli     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Wikipedia has the same information, he was in Russia.

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