Posted on 07/20/2019 4:44:25 PM PDT by DFG
Watching the Moon landing 50 years ago from his comfortable Paris home, Yves Beon could barely contain himself at the spectacle unfolding on TV.
Dozens of white-shirted scientists and engineers at the Apollo Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, were on their feet, many waving flags, cheering at a triumph that was enhancing American prestige and unleashing an ocean of apple-pie patriotism.
Yet Beon, a hero of the French Resistance, was spitting venom at the screen that night and, had he been alive to see last week’s documentaries repeating the footage of Neil Armstrong’s ‘giant leap for mankind’, his reaction would have been incandescent.
Amid the jubilation half a century ago, no one bothered to point out that America’s scientists had been given a huge helping hand. Or that the Moon landing was, in fact, the brainchild of German scientists led by Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus and Arthur Rudolph. Or that all three were Nazi war criminals, guilty of mass murder.
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Full title: The shameful truth: America only put a man on the moon with the help of Nazi monsters - not that anyone will admit it amid all the hype about the 50-year anniversary
Doubtful...
What is the problem?
And all the other countries to put men on the moon did it without German scientists. Oh, wait, there are no other countries to put men on the moon.
There still isn’t a UK flag on the moon!
“Our Germans are better than their Germans”.
OK, and Bing Crosby only pioneered the use of video tape in the United States with the help of Nazi monsters. And hippies only drove their Volkswagen Beetles to Woodstock with the help of Nazi monsters.
There was an article in Thursday’s Telegraph exactly like this. Werner von Braun in pictures with many Nazi’s, the female writer called it NASA’s ‘dirty little secret’. AFAIK, EVERYONE knew that von Braun had worked with NASA. But they are digging this up now to throw more dirt at America. Because, you know, Trump is President.
No, it’s pretty true. Wernher von Braun, for example, oversaw a pretty terrible work camp when developing the V2 rocket. He wasn’t what you would call a “Nazi” in the sense of “let’s exterminate the Jews and conquer the world” but more of a classic amoral scientist. His overall attitude was “I wish these terrible things weren’t happening, BUT—have you seen what we’ve discovered and accomplished?”
The hate America first crowd just can’t see a parade without hoping for rain. Or a flamethrower.
They shut up and did their work even while completely aware of the atrocities being committed by their nations regime.
BTW, while they were perfecting the first rocket to go into space, the USA was perfecting the worlds biggest bomb. AND both countries scientists were under complete lock down.
So what does that make Oppenheimer and Einstein...
Our Nazi scientists were better then the Russian’s Nazi scientists.
They have forgotten American Robert Hutchings Goddard, who started testing rockets way back in the 1920s.
Robert H. Goddard - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard
Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket. Goddard successfully launched his rocket on March 16, 1926, ..... The Goddards soon moved to Roswell, New Mexico.
The current chancellor of Germany is related to Nazis.
Just saying.
The German government surrendered at the end of WWII. But I’m not sure any representatives of the Nazi Party were really involved in the surrender. You could make the case that Germany surrendered, but the Nazis never did.
I look around the world today and I think the Nazis won.
I think what Trump is basically doing is trying to finish WWII and defeat Fascism.
BTW, the EU today is pretty much the outcome Hitler wanted for the continent. And once again, the UK is messing things up for the German Chancellor.
And realistically, what could he have done? In the middle of an avalanche pebbles don’t get much of a vote.
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