In January 1943, von Braun became engaged to Dorothee Brill, a physical education teacher in Berlin, and he sought permission to marry from the SS Race and Settlement Main Office. However, the engagement was broken due to his mother's opposition. Later in 1943, he had an affair with a French woman while in Paris preparing V-2 launch sites in northeastern France. She was imprisoned for collaboration after the war and became destitute.
In January 1943 von Braun became engaged to Dorothee Brill a physical education teacher in Berlin and he sought permission to marry from the SS Race and Settlement Main Office However the engagement was broken due to his mother's opposition Later in 1943 he had an affair with a French woman while in Paris preparing V-2 launch sites in northeastern France She was imprisoned for collaboration after the war and became destitute