While it is hard for someone my age, who grew up watching every launch during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs to not be hugely grateful to von Braun and his team (”our” Germans), it is also impossible to dispel that sickening taste at the back of one’s throat over the thousands in England and Holland who were blasted without the slightest warning by his V2’s, or the grotesque sufferings and death of the thousands of slave laborers who toiled underground building his machines. Brilliant scientist, and maybe an even more brilliant self promoter, but he seems to have had the conscience of a pit viper.
Hear, hear.