"ZE ROCKETS GO UP! WHO CARES VERE ZEY COME DOWN! ZATS NOT MY DEPARTMENT"
- Werner Von Braun
Actual quote from Von Braun:
The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet
Yeah he built the V2s, but it does generally seem like he was happier when he could use his talents for good rather than evil.
he was happy enough to use slave labor to build his death machines.
the attacks from V-2s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 9,000 civilians and military personnel, while a further 12,000 laborers and concentration camp prisoners died as a result of their forced participation in the production of the weapons.
incredible man, truly.
Fitting since the US's treatment of native Americans is what inspired the nazis
Like taking in a student.
yeah, the soviet's problem with the nazis was that nazis wanted to kill them all and they were of the opinion that that would hurt.
the US's problem with the nazis was that they challenged anglo hegemony. not quite as big a difference of opinion. no wonder they rehabilitated the nazis.
We did this with all sorts of fucking Nazis. We were far too kind and should have hung a fuck of a lot more of them.
Same thing goes for the fucking slavers after their failed rebellion.
Would you like to have a guillotine as birthday present?
Killing like that is an emotional response. We should strive to be better than that, and them
No, it is a response to make the world a better place. By allowing slaver officers to live, despite what our laws said, we allowed them to spin the lost cause narrative and take away all the hard won rights that freedmen achieved. We still suffer as a society from that horrible oversight. Think about how things would be different if black people had political and economic rights for the past 150 years.
The same can be said about allowing nazi and Japanese war criminals to live. In many instances, they also took back power and continued to do damage to our world.
They should have all died like Mussolini.
It's "great" seeing people trying to defend these nazis in the comments
well, they only did an oopsie i joined the nazi party by accident and took part in genocide oops. it's not like they were commies or something really bad.
Soviets: "We will choose Korolev's design even though it is less effective because it is politically unacceptable to base our space program on a Nazi design."
America: "Yoooo, Herr SS-Sturmbannführer you're up! Do your thing! What's a little slave labor between friends eh?"
Joe Stalin signed an agreement with Hitler and would have kept it if the Nazis hadn't invaded.
It's not just the scientists. Check out Erich von Manstein. NATO commanders routinely attended the birthdays of this Wehrmacht general, and behind the scenes he was the unofficial commander of the WestGerman military for years.
some of those nato commanders were former nazi colleagues of manstein, so this should not surprise anyone...
There was actually a song talking shit about von Braun. I'm not sure which year it was form
Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer 1965
Space shuttle crashes into London
NASA guy: woops, sorry, force of habit.
Did those scientists have much choice about joining the Nazi party? And, once in the US, didn't some of them contribute significantly to the NASA space program? Why the hate then?
Wait til you see where the Gestapo went.
I'm lost here
Hihi
A lot of those nazi scientists were defectors and saboteurs, for example Walter Dornberger, a Nazi General, was directly implicated in a plot to assassinate Hitler with a bomb briefcase referred to as "Operation Valkyrie", but sadly only managed to singe his pants and rupture his eardrum.
Some of these men were good people, directly opposed to the evil that gripped Germany.
That aside, though, the list of names of Nazi recruitments from Operation Paperclip is very long, and I'm sure many of them were very bad people.
lol what, dude was a nazi who used slaves to make rockets and then avoided punishment after the war.
the july 20 plot against hitler wasnt done by antifascists, it was done by dedicated fascists who thought hitler was incompetent, and they should be the ones to run the genocidal war.
If they were really "good people" they would have done something against the Nazis in the decade leading up to 1944 when the war was already conclusively lost.
The real good people died in their thousands in concentration camps long before 1944. Only a few, like Schindler and Rabe were fortunate enough to survive the war.
I think you might be confusing Dornberger with Von Braun.
Dornberger was supportive of the rocketry program in Germany and was closely associated with Von Braun but I haven't heard of him directly overseeing the transfer of skilled workers from concentration camps or prisons, as I have heard of Von Braun and Arthur Rudolph. Instead, most of the records of Dornberger detail his politics in the Wehrmacht and claims that he was sabotaging the war efforts.
EDIT: I've found something, Dornberger signed a meeting protocol on August 4, 1943 that acknowledged there were forced laborers on sites. “The ratio of German workers to concentration camp prisoners should be 1:15, at the most 1:10“ despite him denying the claim during his trials in 1969.
kill yourself you piece of shit, my great grandfather was abused by one of those guys to build V2s in camps. KILL YOURSELF YOU PIECE OF SHIT
Are you mad that I called Nazis bad people? Are you saying the nazi resistance and defectors tortured your grandfather? Your reading comprehension is low, mate.
Looking forward to shoving you into a deep pit, google cuck pit for more info
Lots of you Comrade/Them folks digging up old comment threads since I released that Hexbear meme, huh? Well get fucked, lol.
