faces charges on war crimes, renounces his citizenship and returns to Germany. Rudolph's name is linked to several conspiracy theories, particularly UFOs and Area 51. Notes References External links Transcripts of an interview of Rudolph on August 4, 1989, are available to researchers FBI file on Arthur Rudolph at Internet Archive 1906 births 1996 deaths Early spaceflight scientists Engineers from Thuringia German emigrants to the United States 20th-century German inventors German people of World War II German rocket scientists German spaceflight pioneers Sturmabteilung personnel NASA people People from Saxe-Meiningen Technical University of Berlin alumni Loss of United States citizenship by prior Nazi affiliation V-weapons people Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp personnel Operation Paperclip