Can you the liberals today with Von Braun?
He was a nazi so who cares about developing cell phones, satellite radio, the Internet, GPS, and Doppler radar???
#whiteprivileged
He was like a lot of the nazi scientists in the sense that he was milking Hitler for funding money for his own research.
There was a lot of foot dragging among the nazi scientists which meant a lot of the nazi “superweapons” came just a little too late.
Tom Lehrer, a different kind of genius, wrote a short song about von Braun in the 1960s: Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
“Can you the liberals today with Von Braun?”
“He was a Nazi[....]”
No, the oft repeated claim that Wehrner von Braun chose to join the NAZI Party has always been a lie. Himmler wanted to take control of the rocket programme from the German Army, so he arrested and jailed Von Braun. Himmler intimidated Von Braun by threatening to have him shot or executed by other means, but promised Von Braun he would be forgiven if he agreed to join the NAZIs. What finally persuaded Von Braun to cooperate was Himmler’s threat to arrest, imprison in the concentration camps, and/or execute members of Von Braun’s team of rocket scientists and their families. Von Braun risked his life on many occasions to save lives threatened by Himmler and his NAZI Gestapo, SD, and SS troops.
In the last days of the war, Von Braun risked his life to evacuate the members of his team and their technical documentation to the U.S. Army.
The smartest engineering professor I ever had was one of von Braun’s rocket scientists. Even in the 1980’s NASA used to fly him down for shuttle launches as a consultant.