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To: Olympiad Fisherman

The Nazis had many incredible ideas that didn’t have anything to do with the final solution. should we say Math or rocket science should not used because an evil person thought it up.


3 posted on 10/17/2013 12:37:49 PM PDT by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: bdfromlv

Nazi science was not based on the Enlightenment ideal that “knowledge was power” that originally came from the natural theology of the Middle Ages, but from the existential emphasis upon “Will to Power,” which denigrated rationality in favor of instinct and willpower. Too much has been made of Nazi science. The Manhattan Project far surpassed even the Nazi rocket program. In fact, the Nazi rocket system was a huge waste of money and research. Without a nuclear bomb tied to them, the rockets were virtually useless from a strict military point of view. The Nazis would have been far better off building more Tiger Tanks.


13 posted on 10/17/2013 1:01:19 PM PDT by Olympiad Fisherman
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To: bdfromlv

Three words, “Werner Von Braun.”


34 posted on 10/17/2013 2:27:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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