Al Jones

The Pilgrimage Church of the Holy Linden in Święta Lipka, Poland, formerly Heiligelinde, Germany, as seen from the window of Linden House, ancestral home of the von Rössel family.

German Army Ordinance "Aggregat Vier" (A4) ballistic missile, the V-2 (in service 1944-45). Hans Rimbach's Weimar-era doctoral thesis made him a sought-after expert in radio guidance for ballistic missiles, until his wife Lina ran afoul of the SS.

Fieseler Fi-103 "Kirschkern" ("Cherry Stone") cruise missile, the V-1 "buzz bomb" (in service 1944-45). With the war nearly ended, Hans Rimbach, although an SS prisoner, tricks the SS into letting him form a team to "improve" its guidance. He saves fifty prisoners from certain death.

Slave laborer working on the guidance compartment of the V-2. As guidance experts, Hans and his secretary Liesl Lacher, both prisoners, were assigned to final testing of the guidance system. Sabotage was dangerous. Merely surviving was an act of resistance.

North Courthouse Square, Huntsville, Alabama: inspiration for Colgan's Lunch Tyme, a.k.a. Nate's.

Van Valkenburgh Johnson house, Huntsville, Alabama: Inspiration for "Heatherleigh," the home of Barbara Ellen "Bobby" Barnstable, Major, U.S. Army Medical Corps.

Cocoa Beach Pier, Cocoa Beach, Florida, just south of Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. Where else but Cocoa Beach would there be a bar called The Hydrazine Lounge?

Ashby Gymnasium, Oakwood University, Huntsville, Alabama. On 19 March 1962, Martin Luther King ended his speech here with "Free at last," 17 months before it famously became the ending of "I Have a Dream." The Rimbachs were there, so you can be too.

Zimmerstrasse at Friedrichstrasse, West Berlin, August 1971. The Wall surrounded West Berlin, turning it into a prison. It was the only prison in the world where people were trying to get in. East German guards had standing orders to shoot those trying to cross into West Berlin.

Office of Erich Mielke, longtime head of the Ministry for State Security (the "Stasi"), Ruschestrasse and Normannenstrasse, Lichtenberg, Berlin. Stasi Captain Rolf Hessel becomes one of Mielke's favorites for his work against Pastor Peter Siefert and his Calvary Church Rock Center, including Eva Sieglinde "Siggy" Rimbach.

Hohenschönhausen Remand Prison, Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin. Prisoners were held here for Stasi interrogation. Peter Siefert has his turn. So do many others.

Original ticket to Springsteen's East Berlin concert on Siggy Rimbach's forty-fourth birthday. Marlene Dietzel makes illegal copies for the whole Calvary Rock Center on the machine in her mother's office. Siggy is offended when the Boss chooses some teenager to take the stage with him for "Dancing in the Dark."