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{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
Well, if Thiel would have been there, maybe he would have pushed for the introduction of the mixing nozzle instead of this [[oven??]] here.

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On the other hand, I think it would have been too late. Even he couldn't have made that change --

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Right. I think - I agree.

{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
-- because it was not working properly, ja? If it would have worked, he might have been able to somehow squeeze it in.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
The problem was of course that by the time you get to 1944, it's almost too late to change the whole production run.

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{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
Right.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
When, you know, Hitler and the system is calling for as many V-2s - as they were called after they were beginning to launch - as fast as possible.

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They didn't want to -- cause a changeover --

{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
You couldn't make changes any more. It was impossible.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
-- you couldn't have a changeover.

{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
And that in a way of course really stopped the development right then and there.

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Important things - like the long fiberglass wool I mentioned earlier, ja? They still had to be done. But no other changes just to improve the performance a little bit.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
I just wonder, just to what extent there was still Wasserfall development? Unfortunately, it's hard to find much about Wasserfall.

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So far, maybe in the archive reports and other places there will be, but so far, I haven't found much on it. -- [[cross talk]] -- so it's a struggle.

{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
And there are not too many Wasserfall people over here. They are basically all V-2 people.

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So right off-hand I couldn't think of any single person who really would know an awful lot about Wasserfall. Of course the designers in Riedel's office designed also the Wasserfall parts.

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But I think that was, in a way, really more a sideline. So the Wasserfall was never one of the more important projects. Whenever there was a real problem with the V-2, that had priority, and all the people had to solve that first.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
And the Wasserfall also had, in a way, its own crew. That's when the air force people came in - and the air force had several hundred people at Peenemünde at that time - and I think only very, very few of these people are over here. And that's probably one of the reasons that you can't find out too much about it.

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And although the Wasserfall was also theoretically in my area, and the drawings were made in the Technisches Büro, for the Wasserfall, but I really didn't have the time to worry too much in detail about it.

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We had still so many V-2 problems, that they had first priority.

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And we also built another smaller vehicle, the Taifun. I don't know if you heard about the Taifun?

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Yeah, I've heard about that. It was at the every end of the war. Solid propellant?

{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
Right. Ja - that was really an emergency solution, ja?

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Where did the idea for Taifun come from? And who was involved with that?

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{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
Well, the fellow who pushed it mostly was, again an air force officer, Scheufelen, Klaus Scheufelen.

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I don't know if you have heard the name?

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
It sounds slightly familiar --

{SPEAKER name="KONRAD DANNENBERG"}
And as far as I know he's still living in Germany. He went back to Germany. He was here only the first, I think he left shortly after --

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