That is your opinion, not a fact.
"And Goddard wasnt tainted."
Goddard was dead later that year.
Yes, ok, we were helpless without Von Braun. We were lucky to stack two bricks together. And all the American engineers were utterly stumped until Von Braun solved every problem for them. The Nazis were the only reason we could have nasa.
Happy?
Goddard invented half the things that Von Braun got famous for.
Our first satellite was put up by a USN design that wasn’t a German project.