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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
So because he fought against us, Wernher von Braun should be ostracised?
It seems to me the same could be said of many, Ferdinand Porsche for example, creator of the Volkswagen (Beetle) or even Oskar Schindler, after all he profited from his slave labour.
Have you ever taken pills made by IG Farben or Beyer? Used traffic lights manufactured by Siemens? all of those had some part to play in the camps.
Von Braun is on record saying how he tried to help people where he could, but like most of the German people, who were aware of what was happening, he feared that he could do nothing and to make a statement against it would be to give yourself a life sentence.
Whether or not that is true is now hearsay, after all he is dead.
Being aware that people are being exterminated en mass is one thing, being involved directly is another. I am glad however that you are not using the internet to say the holocaust never happened.
My Grandfather, on my mums side, was one of the first Allied officers into Belsen, he would never talk about it.
That said he had a lot of time for the Germans, not the French though.
Every government will change the rules to suit them, what profit are you going to gain by making such audacious claims about the space race, something that was won over 40 years ago and thanks to the current occupier of the White house is well and truly over.
Just like this thread was, for several months, until you resurected it again..........
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The issue is that every year they line up on Rememberance Sunday and bang on about how bad the Nazi's were and how we fought for freedom to defeat the evil! Trying to make out it was so black and white, when it is not! This is the point of my post. That many business men in USA made money out of the war and the holocaust and invested in Nazi Germany.
IBM provided counting machines that helped the Nazi's keep track of all the jews and it is stated that but for those machines they would not have been able to kill so many people. Henry Ford the car manufacurer, invested in Nazi Germany and apparently was anti-semitic.
So the issue is if all these people who are now a respectable part of the modern world and were implicit in evil, why every year do we gather and bang on about how we "beat evil!"
It smacks of hypocricy to me because the lines are not so clear cut.
So Von Braun is on record as saying "he tried to help people or he didn't know it was going on!" - that is what they all would say if given the chance. Fact is without Braun the Americans would have been well behind the Russians and may have lost the space race (if indeed they did win it and even went to the moon?)
Just be glad that the Nazi's didn't work out how to make an atomic bomb before the end of the 2nd World War.