… As opposed to a Nazi running the US space program, which this guy saw the day of.
Well you’re not wrong. He’d have to be pretty into it though to know all that at the time. It wasn’t hidden but it wasn’t promoted either, for obvious reasons.
From what I’m finding about him, the only reason he really joined in with the nazi party was to be able to make rockets and do aerospace engineering. It’s not the best look but it’s not like he was also a psychopath strong desire to kill Jewish people.
He also oversaw slave labor as part of his job, and he was well aware that the rockets were terror bombing civilians in England.
More prisoners died building the V-2 rockets than were killed by them in attacks.
Ok but he did knowingly benefit from aiding genocide. And not in a “halfway across the world” way, in a “used concentration camp labor” way
The V2 assembly site was located right next to a concentration camp, and they used slave labor from that concentration camp to build the rockets.
Do we know for certain that he believed in the ideals of the Nazi party? No. Did he ever try to fight the system in even the smallest way? Also no.
The best you can say for him is that he was indifferent to the suffering of the slaves being used to assemble the rockets, and willing to allow the rockets to be used to attack London.
In the “Nazi bar” analogy, he’s a Nazi who goes to the Nazi bar wearing a Nazi uniform, and the best you can hope for is that he’s going for the beer and not because he likes hanging out with the other Nazis.
Is he talking about musk? Cause he isnt running shit. Owner, unfortunately yes. But he isn’t capable of running a washing machine.
Yes. And if he’s able to fire everyone he’s running it. I agree he’s unable to do it well, but there it is.
Nazi rapist felon stinky cheese turd
Ach ja so, Werner “I aim for ze stars, but sometimes hit London” von Braun.
“When ze rockets go up, who cares where zey come down? Zat’s not my department,”
Had a man tell me that he as a first generation American, who essentially lived the ideal, Never dreamed of seeing democracy possibly leave the country.
Hearing that from people who have actually lived in different circumstances makes your eyes open if they weren’t already.