The bastard Wernher von Braun should have been brought over here, allowed to make some advanced rockets for a few years in exchange for us keeping him from facing the justice he so richly deserved. After, say 10 years of this work he should have been offed, either directly by us or by Israel.
Von Braun’s V-2 rockets not only rained indiscriminate death and terror upon the people of Great Britain, they killed more in their home country than in the country they were used against. Manufacturing was done in the Mittelbau-Dora slave labor camp where 20,000 - 1 in 3 - died from illness, beatings, hangings, and intolerable working conditions.
Rockets were so new - and so dependent on *exactly* how they were manufactured - that it is beyond impossible that WvB wasn’t highly aware of he conditions to a point of complicity.
Wernher von Braun’s skills were needed in the Cold War, but his victims deserved justice. The US truly failed when we let him become him become a celebrity, featured on Disney shows, for f’s sake!