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To: Timber Rattler
At the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, they have a traveling Wernher von Braun exhibit. One of the videos from the exhibit had part of this comment:

We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured.

This is why he and several others from his team sought out and surrendered to the US. This doesn't sound like an unapologetic Nazi to me.

14 posted on 01/05/2015 7:50:27 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kosciusko51
Von Braun's Nazi membership number was 5,738,692. His SS membership number was 185,068 and his wore his uniform regularly to official SS functions.

Be careful about anything Von Braun wrote or said about his Nazi past after his capture and arrival in America, since he tried hard to spin it all away while working in the U.S. missile and space programs.

31 posted on 01/05/2015 8:24:29 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: kosciusko51

Well do you have any evidence that he ever apologized? Just because he wanted to surrender to capitalists instead of communists doesn’t mean he renounced anything.


35 posted on 01/05/2015 8:31:42 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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