Operation Paperclip, is a bete noir to many on the left, especially those of the Jewish persuasion.
I don't feel the same, Were it not for von Braun and the rest of the scientists, we would be under the Soviet Heel.
No thank you. and besides I doubt that von Braun and his scientists were real NAZI's, in the ideological sense. In a totalitarian society one must belong to the party to get a job, or get ahead. Scientists, except social scientists and political scientists, but the physical scientists are generally non political. Even in America there are scientists that don't pay attention to politics ore even current affairs. My son and granddaughter are both scientists and politics is the last thing on their mind.
I had a break through with my son over Christmas, we usually don't talk politics, but he did say this is 1933.
I guess showing up for work every day to make the weapons that would destroy London and bring victory for Hitler was just another day at the office. You know science, there is no moral consideration, just the work…
When the shooting starts, moral considerations go out the window.
In WWI on Xmas even both the French/ritish trenches and Germans stopped sang Carols together and even met on no mans land to play soccer, until their officers told them to get back into the trenches and fight.
When Curt LeMay and Bomber Harris learned that there was going to be a war crimes tribunal, and that Goring was going to be tried for bombing cities, they both expected to be tried as well, Curt LeMay, even expressed concern, needless to say the victors are never guilty. Though what Harris and LeMay did to Germany and Japan, made German bombing look like firecrackers.
Dresden, the subject of Slaughter House Five, was an open sity, it didn't even have any anti aircraft protection and it was firebombed, first dynamite bombs to create shells, then incendiary bombs to create firestorms and fire hurricanes.
Was von Braun a die hard NAZI or was he just like his counterparts in England and America, doing what he was hired to do, and in fact had no choice.
Things are not so simple Cracker. When your country goes to war and it is a total war, one has no choice either go to prison or go to work.
On Dec 8, 1941 even the Silver Shirts, the American NAZI's dropped their swatiskas and line up at the recruting station or answered the draft call.
Operation Paperclip, is a bete noir to many on the left, especially those of the Jewish persuasion.
I don't feel the same, Were it not for von Braun and the rest of the scientists, we would be under the Soviet Heel.
No thank you. and besides I doubt that von Braun and his scientists were real NAZI's, in the ideological sense. In a totalitarian society one must belong to the party to get a job, or get ahead. Scientists, except social scientists and political scientists, but the physical scientists are generally non political. Even in America there are scientists that don't pay attention to politics ore even current affairs. My son and granddaughter are both scientists and politics is the last thing on their mind.
I had a break through with my son over Christmas, we usually don't talk politics, but he did say this is 1933.
I guess showing up for work every day to make the weapons that would destroy London and bring victory for Hitler was just another day at the office. You know science, there is no moral consideration, just the work…
When the shooting starts, moral considerations go out the window.
In WWI on Xmas even both the French/ritish trenches and Germans stopped sang Carols together and even met on no mans land to play soccer, until their officers told them to get back into the trenches and fight.
When Curt LeMay and Bomber Harris learned that there was going to be a war crimes tribunal, and that Goring was going to be tried for bombing cities, they both expected to be tried as well, Curt LeMay, even expressed concern, needless to say the victors are never guilty. Though what Harris and LeMay did to Germany and Japan, made German bombing look like firecrackers.
Dresden, the subject of Slaughter House Five, was an open sity, it didn't even have any anti aircraft protection and it was firebombed, first dynamite bombs to create shells, then incendiary bombs to create firestorms and fire hurricanes.
Was von Braun a die hard NAZI or was he just like his counterparts in England and America, doing what he was hired to do, and in fact had no choice.
Things are not so simple Cracker. When your country goes to war and it is a total war, one has no choice either go to prison or go to work.
On Dec 8, 1941 even the Silver Shirts, the American NAZI's dropped their swatiskas and line up at the recruting station or answered the draft call.