Concerning a question about Greifswald: Indeed there is a very little
island "Greifswalder Oie" quite near to our town, in southeastern
direction from the great island Ruegen, and this little island was
within the region in which Wernher von Braun did his rocket experiments.
But the centre of von Braun's rocket activities was Peenemuende. It
is situated on the northwest corner of the island Usedom, also quite
near to Greifswald, and was destroyed by the US and British airforces.
The production of the rockets was evacuated then to Mittelbau-Dora
by the faschists. Now Peenemuende is a growing open-air museum, quite
interesting for all people, interested in military history or history
of technics and particularly in flyers and rockets. - Greifswald is a
little but very old university (founded in 1456), and it is a little
a pity that people in distant places seemingly know only from the
Nazi and von Braun affairs in our region.
Greetings from Pommerania (formerly Sud-Sverige), Peter Schreiber