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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
When you have liquid oxygen and you have to refill it constantly because it evaporates,

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
this makes it difficult for, for, for troops, who come from all sides of life and they have difficulties to train them for those purposes.

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
Mhm

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
So, in this respect, uh--

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
you know the nitric acid and, and uh, Visol--

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
they're simpler, considerably simpler to handle.

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
Mhm, in spite of the corrosive and dangerous aspects of nitric acid.

{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
Yeah, right, right.

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
In spite of that.

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
Mhm

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
Now, Wasserfall is something that we have little information on, um--

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
and one of my tasks will be to--

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
try to, uh--

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
understand much more about what happened to it.

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
I don't even have a clear idea of when it started.

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
There's even conflicting dates about, the may— The conflict between, may in part come from when the project was first put forward and when it was officially approved by the Air Force and so forth, but--

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
What, what do you remember about when it started?

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
Uh...

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
I could tell you, only you probably are best off to ask them, who was in the project—

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{SPEAKER name="MiCHAEL NEUFELD"}
Mmhmm

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
—uh, officer at that time, so he, he must have been one of the first to get notified to talk about it and to come out with propositions — How would we do it?

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
Because we in test, we heard about it only after it was already clear — it would have this form, this formation.

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
When we were asked or heard about it – we didn't hear that, that was accidental.

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
And I mean, Thiel probably knew about it,

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{SPEAKER name="KARL HEIMBURG"}
uh, I don't believe that Hueter or Schilling knew about it but Thiel may have heard about it, you know, in conversations with von Braun.