Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?

Bruno Fischer and the three officials then retired to a small hollow in the ground about two hundred yards away and Fischer closed the switch that sent the rocket on its journey. There was a blinding flash and a deafening explosion, and the slim torpedo-shaped body was gone from the steel framework in which it had rested.

Did the Germans launch a crewed rocket into space in 1933?"A few minutes later it came into sight again, floatin...
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