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Show specifics. Show quotes. Show he made choices.


9 posted on 07/27/2023 12:37:41 PM PDT by EEGator
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Wikipedia Von Braun had an ambivalent and complex relationship with Nazi Germany.[5] He applied for membership of the Nazi Party on 12 November 1937, and was issued membership number 5,738,692.

Michael J. Neufeld, an author of aerospace history and chief of the Space History Division at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, wrote that ten years after von Braun obtained his Nazi Party membership, he signed an affidavit for the U.S. Army, though he stated the incorrect year

In 1939, I was officially demanded to join the National Socialist Party. At this time I was already Technical Director at the Army Rocket Center at Peenemünde (Baltic Sea). The technical work carried out there had, in the meantime, attracted more and more attention in higher levels. Thus, my refusal to join the party would have meant that I would have to abandon the work of my life. Therefore, I decided to join. My membership in the party did not involve any political activity.

It has not been ascertained whether von Braun's error with regard to the year was deliberate or a simple mistake.[30]: 96  Neufeld wrote:

Von Braun, like other Peenemünders, was assigned to the local group in Karlshagen; there is no evidence that he did more than send in his monthly dues. But he is seen in some photographs with the party's swastika pin in his lapel – it was politically useful to demonstrate his membership.

50 posted on 07/27/2023 4:30:16 PM PDT by GingisK
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Check Wikipedia. He was a party member. He altered the date when the Americans questioned him to make it look like he had been forced, but he wasn’t. He was also in the SS.


51 posted on 07/27/2023 4:31:11 PM PDT by x
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Looks like you got dumped on. Sorry I pitched in.


58 posted on 07/27/2023 4:50:20 PM PDT by GingisK
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