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{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
...plastics; and he had also in the field of approach sensors, this was a particular field; then he had one on the 84-minute pendulum, which was at that time academically thought to be the ideal gyro; and work was going on on that. And so, he had various contracts in such fields.

[00:21:17]
{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Were you aware of all of the different institutes that were working, at Darmstadt, or did you not have much contact with other activities...'cause there were a number of institutes...

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
—Yes, I had some contact. For instance, the Institute of Applied Mathematics, I had done quite a lot of work with trajectory calculations.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Right, that's Walther's...

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{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
That was Professor Walther, yes, Alwin Walther. And I had contact with them. Actually he became my co-referent on the thesis later. And he was particularly interested -- he had done before the war already some work on analogue simulation, and since I continued with analogue simulators for Peenemünde, in this separate contract, Professor Walther became very much interested in that.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
So that you were officially under Vieweg.

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
Right.

{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
But you were also sort of working informally or more informally with Walther on simulation.

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{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
Let's say, it was more that Walther stayed interested in my work. I had not, I didn't have to report at that time to him, but he observed what I was doing, and we had sometimes discussions on this.

[00:22:47]
The same way, Professor Buchhold, who was -- and Professor Hueter -- who had both also contracts from Peenemünde on accelerometers and on control of inverters, frequency control and [[??]] control of inverters, and I knew about that work. And so I was very well aware what's going on. In addition, very often we had meetings, that were arranged from Peenemünde, either in Darmstadt or in Peenemünde, where I was invited to participate.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
Now, in terms of the interaction between the universities and the Technische Hochschulen and Peenemünde -- is it true that it was basically a very friendly academic atmosphere between equals?

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
Oh yes. Oh yes. Definitely. Our goal was just to achieve higher performance and to solve problems. And in this respect, there was maybe sometimes a little competition, but always on a very friendly and colloquial level.

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{SPEAKER name="MICHAEL NEUFELD"}
You mean a competition between labs at Peenemünde and labs at ... the university?

{SPEAKER name="WALTER HAEUSSERMANN"}
—No, even in Darmstadt. See, for instance, if I recall right...

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