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Originally Posted by King Lear
That was no credit to Nazism, in no way!
Just a mention of the historical facts.
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You say that... and you have this in your signature..
Forgive me if I am confused.
Von Braun did change his tune later in his career... He quit NASA because he was against arming space..
But he was not just an ordinary citizen... he built weapons of mass destruction and had no qualms about how they were being used... And when he came to America... he built weapons of mass destructions for us... long before he went to NASA... he built the ICBM's
After the war, 118 German rocket scientists worked together at Fort Bliss, Texas.
(U.S. ARMY AVIATION AND MISSILE COMMAND)
Operation Paper Clip brought 580 Nazi scientist over here..
Intelligence and government officials faced a delicate moral quandary in 1945—whether it was worth it to give American homes to men who had invented weapons to kill American soldiers, men who in some cases subscribed to beliefs that hundreds of thousands Americans had died to eradicate. In the end they decided it was, if these men could help the United States defeat the Soviets.
—Christine Gibson is a former editor at American Heritage magazine.
American Heritage Magazine