![]() ![]() Mike learns all this from his grandfather while visiting him in Oakland during the last 10 days of his life, when the old man is on painkillers and willing to talk. (Fired from the sales department of a barrette company, Grandpa attempts to strangle his former boss with a telephone cord.) Their love story is vivisected by her mental illness and his jail sentence. She-morbid, magnetic, full of self-contradiction and haunted by visions of a “skinless horse” that hint at her Holocaust trauma-already has a young daughter: Mike’s mother. (Naively, he hopes these men of science can help his country realize the humanist dream of a moon landing this idealism is cruelly punished by what he sees in Nordhausen’s labor camps.) Upon his return, Grandfather meets a French refugee at a synagogue party. A brilliant engineer and self-styled tough guy, he hunts Nazi missile-builders during the war. ![]() ![]() Elsewhere, he stumbles across a crucial stockpile of Nazi rocket designs in the night forests of Vellinghausen. ![]() He plays a bit part in various historical moments, at one point watching the rehabilitated German scientist Wernher von Braun accept an award. This is far from the most outlandish situation Mike’s grandfather finds himself in over the enchanted course of his long life. ![]()
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