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{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
...(maybe that comes a bit later)...And so, Professor Vieweg requested that the work be continued, which was started for Peenemünde. And Wernher von Braun, knowing that I would like to go back to Darmstadt, gave me the opportunity to return to Darmstadt, of course now this time to the Institute of Applied Physics, not where I had been before, 'electrical machinery'.

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And, in addition, there were some problems on which I had been working in Peenemünde, for the control system and simulation equipment, and so I got an additional contract on that subject, for the Institute of Applied Physics in Darmstadt. The result was, I moved back to Darmstadt under contract, or working under contract, for Peenemünde. And this gave me then the opportunity to return very often to discuss the problems and to show them the solutions I had for the tests they gave me, and this way I came back to Peenemünde and stayed in contact with Peenemünde.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Was your, were you officially, transferred employers at that point?

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
...so that you became an employee of...

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
—the Institute of Applied Physics.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
As an 'Assistent' or...?

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
—No.

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Verbally translated it would mean as "coworker." Actually, it was, the name in German was 'Mitarbeiter', at the Institute. And very quickly, because of the development work I did there, I had then my own group and also some companies, in Aschaffenburg, working on the development I had going on.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Now, let's get some of the specifics here. Vieweg was already working on contract.

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
Yes.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
And what were his tasks or his contracts for, before you got there, do you remember?

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
I could not say what all the contracts were. Or what kind of contracts. He had...

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
—General area, then.

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
He had contracts in the field of...