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America only put a man on the moon with the help of Nazi monsters (TR)
UK Daily Mail ^ | 07/20/2019 | Tom Bower

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apollo; apollo11; apolloprogram; arthurrudolph; bfd; debus; germany; kurtdebus; moon; nasa; rudolph; sofuggingwhat; tombower; vonbraun; wernhervonbraun; yvesbeon
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To: DFG

Yeah, we should have let the Russkies grab Von Braun and the others. /s


21 posted on 07/20/2019 4:56:45 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: DFG

And...?


22 posted on 07/20/2019 4:56:45 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"The Goddards soon moved to Roswell, New Mexico"

Sounds suspicious...

23 posted on 07/20/2019 4:56:54 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DFG

Tom Bower needs to have the knackwurst removed that’s up his butt.


24 posted on 07/20/2019 4:57:11 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: DFG

We need more monsters, then.


25 posted on 07/20/2019 4:57:34 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: DFG
Robert Goddard was an American and was putting up rockets before Von Braun. In fact Von Braun admired and followed in his footsteps. Goddard never got the kind of funding Von Braun did
26 posted on 07/20/2019 4:58:05 PM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: DFG
BTW the Brits were the inventors of the concentration camp system.

The Boer wars where they starved a good many women and children of the Boers during that war. .

27 posted on 07/20/2019 4:58:10 PM PDT by crz
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To: DFG

The Brits. A once proud Navy hundreds of years ago, and now a conquered nation of muslims.


28 posted on 07/20/2019 4:58:16 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: VanDeKoik
The current chancellor of Germany is related to Nazis.

And was an enthusiastic STASI member.

29 posted on 07/20/2019 4:58:29 PM PDT by null and void (The Democratic Party is back to loving workers but hating employers. A winning formula I'm sure.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Not only that, but the Euros are importing Muslims to make Europe Judenrein once again.
30 posted on 07/20/2019 4:58:54 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: Dr. Sivana

And hippies only drove their Volkswagen Beetles to Woodstock with the help of Nazi monsters.

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That part was actually KGB monsters. But, really, they’re kinda hard to tell apart except for the accent when they talk.


31 posted on 07/20/2019 4:59:23 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: DFG
Fifty years from now, people will say that some accomplishment only happened because of help they got from Antifa Monsters like Beto O'Rourke and Kamala Harris.

Not because they rioted and beat up people, but because they were aligned with the party that enabled it.

-PJ

32 posted on 07/20/2019 4:59:54 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: DFG
In 1945 Germany was as advanced...if not more advanced...as any country on earth in rocketry. Some ended up working for the Soviets...some for us.

Would it have been better if all of them were hanged? Probably. But the Soviets had no scruples...so we had to put ours on the back burner.

33 posted on 07/20/2019 4:59:56 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Comey,Brennan and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: All

Probably it is more consistent to say that one could look around the world and see that communism never truly surrendered, and that its horrors are perpetuated in the current global order. There is no really direct line from Nazi Germany to the modern world. People confuse the similar techniques of totalitarian societies, but the intellectual footprint is that of communism, not fascism.


34 posted on 07/20/2019 5:00:10 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Take the next train to Marxville and I'll meet you at the camp)
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To: DFG

And no German scientists defected to the Soviets because all the Germans were bad guys and the Soviets were good guys. And I have a bridge to Brooklyn to sell you.

More trashing the moon landing on its anniversary from “friends” in the nation in our our “special relationship”.


35 posted on 07/20/2019 5:00:14 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Future Snake Eater
"His overall attitude was..."

Vunce za rockets go up, who cares vere zey kom down, that's not my department...[-Tom Lehrer].

36 posted on 07/20/2019 5:00:56 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: DFG

The only joy the buzzkill artists of the Left know is the joy of sneering, denunciation, and destruction.


37 posted on 07/20/2019 5:01:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: DFG

The war the Germans started killed about 30m people from among the European Allied nations. The German death toll was about 8m. Maybe we should have equalized the score and picked 22m Germans to kill in order to settle the score. The reality, however, is that there were bigger fish to fry. We needed German manpower in case the Russians decided to go for the whole enchilada - the rest of Europe. We wanted Germany to be an economic engine for the part of the Europe not occupied by the Soviets. So instead of turning West Germany into a giant farm via the pastoralization policy drafted by fellow traveler Harry Dexter White, we decided to help it recover and eventually become a normal country. The rest is history and just another variation on why victors seldom slaughtered the people they had conquered. You need them in place to defend that territory. And you need some of the elites that were your former enemies to do the job, because they know their business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White


38 posted on 07/20/2019 5:01:09 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: DFG
So what? This is not news.

I remember that during the space race, we used to say that our German scientists were better than the Soviet German scientists.

Scientific knowledge and ability is where you find it. I guess we could have refused to let them help - I guess we could all be speaking Russian now, too.

40 posted on 07/20/2019 5:02:04 PM PDT by BruceS
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