Editing History of the Weltraumgruppen (section)

== Origins and transfer of German personnel ==
{{Main|Operation Sternzug}}

The Oberkommando authorized Operation Sternzug on 8 May 1945 as Allied forces took custody of German rocket sites and their personnel. Tanoa was excluded from the occupation of Germany, so [[Glöbbery]] created duplicate prisoner records and false movement orders that allowed selected personnel to disappear from Allied custody. Argentine contacts received the transfers through the Patagonian network previously used by [[Jan Paap]] to organize the [[Argentine Einsatz]].<ref name="argentine-einsatz"/> The first copied V-2 archive entered Tanoan custody on 3 June. [[Walter Dornberger]] was removed from Allied prisoner tracking on 21 June, followed by [[Wernher von Braun]] during a staged medical transfer on 2 July. The network moved [[Kurt Debus]] and [[Eberhard Rees]] through northern Italy on 17 July. [[Arthur Rudolph]] and [[Konrad Dannenberg]] travelled with the same transport group before the first convoy reached Argentina on 9 August.

President [[Juan Domingo Perón]] accepted the transit arrangement and allowed Argentine military contacts to receive the convoys. The arrangement gave Tanoa influence inside the technical establishment before formal rule began with the takeover of Patagonia in 1953. Annexation extended that control across Argentina in 1965.<ref name="argentina-history"/> The core Peenemünde group reached Tanoa on 3 February 1946 and divided the recovered program by function. Dornberger directed security and military planning while von Braun reconstructed the technical archive. Debus converted the records into launch procedures, and Rees adapted the manufacturing documents to Tanoan and Argentine equipment. Altered custody files and controlled appearances by substitutes preserved the public careers attributed to the transferred personnel outside Tanoa.