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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: 21twelve

Nixon took credit for the moon landings, he was just riding the coat-tails of what President Kennedy had set in motion.
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Oh, the sainted JFK who knew too much and was going to out and then destroy the rogue intelligence community. So, his own party killed him.

Proggies in a nutshell. Ya know....I just had a thought....maybe there’s more than one reason zer0’s been so quiet lately.


121 posted on 07/20/2019 6:34:50 PM PDT by reformedliberal
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To: Secret Agent Man
Let's start talking about all the africans and muslims that were selling blacks to the slave traders. You know the blacks they didn't kill in tribal wars, conquest, etc.

Strange that there are virtually no blacks in Saudi, even though the muslim Arabian Peninsula was the #1 destination for African slaves for over a thousand years.

122 posted on 07/20/2019 6:38:58 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: DFG

Several things in this article are wrong.

Firstly Von Braun was never some kind of nazi ideologue. If you wanted to work in rocketry you had to join the party. The same was true from train conductors and some other professions. There was never any evidence he was responsible for Dora or any of the slave labor camps in which V2 components were produced. Some of the others were not as innocent.

Still, what were we supposed to do? If we didn’t snap them up and use them to bolster our defense capabilities, it was a certainty the Soviets would - and they hoovered up their share of German scientists and engineers too. We had a cold war to win. We were willing to make a deal with the Commies to win WWII. Where’s the crying about that?


123 posted on 07/20/2019 6:40:37 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DFG

There they go again, pissing in the punch bowl.


124 posted on 07/20/2019 6:40:39 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: fruser1

Siwwy wabbit; now we have Juul and equal opportunity rocket scientists and engineers .
(you must be an Extremist right wing misogynistic homophobic transphobic Islamophobic xenophobe, my brother)


125 posted on 07/20/2019 6:41:02 PM PDT by A strike (import third world. become third world)
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To: 21twelve

They already have.


126 posted on 07/20/2019 6:41:54 PM PDT by redangus
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To: Secret Agent Man
Do you think that could be because mulsims preferred their slaves fully emasculated, nothing between the anus and the bellybutton but scar tissue and a tiny hole for urination.

So what if fully a third died of the procedure? The castrati commanded a high enough premium to more than offset the loss of inventory...

127 posted on 07/20/2019 6:48:39 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: Future Snake Eater

He didn’t oversee the camp. He did visit and knew what conditions were like, but he didn’t run it and its not like he was in any position to stop it.


128 posted on 07/20/2019 6:49:08 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: DFG

So tell us, all knowing one, how long did the SS lock von Braun up before he finally became a full-fledged, signed-on-the-dotted-line Nazi?

CAN you tell us that ... or no?

Are you aware of ANY other history concerning von Braun beyond the ‘story’ you posted?


129 posted on 07/20/2019 6:50:32 PM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: DFG

I didn’t read anything but accusations. Even war crimes must be proven with evidence. Not every Nazi was a war criminal. We didn’t hang every German soldier. Nor did we prosecute VW, Mercedes Benz or Krupp. Or Japanese industrialists.


130 posted on 07/20/2019 6:52:31 PM PDT by Spok
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To: DFG

Didn’t we grab onto the German Rocket scientists to keep the Soviets from getting them?


131 posted on 07/20/2019 6:55:12 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: DFG

“Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus and Arthur Rudolph. Or that all three were Nazi war criminals, guilty of mass murder.”

Bullshit.

Total bullshit.


132 posted on 07/20/2019 7:04:55 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: laconic

Was Hanna Reitsch actually an ace? She was a test pilot, but I’m not aware that she ever flew in combat.


133 posted on 07/20/2019 7:09:36 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Nateman

“In fact Von Braun admired and followed in his footsteps. Goddard never got the kind of funding Von Braun did”

Von Braun invented a new rocket motor design that could scale up to the Saturn V in size.

The very same design is in use today worldwide.

He was a giant, and nobody since has come close.


134 posted on 07/20/2019 7:10:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: DFG

I have the same response to all liberal smear attempts now.

“So what.”


135 posted on 07/20/2019 7:17:55 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: Billthedrill
The only joy the buzzkill artists of the Left know is the joy of sneering, denunciation, and destruction.
Socialists are cynical about society. And, concomitantly, socialists are naive about government.

136 posted on 07/20/2019 7:17:59 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: DFG

How much soy does Tom Bower eat every day!?


137 posted on 07/20/2019 7:18:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: DFG

Yep! We made lemonade out of our Nazi lemons.


138 posted on 07/20/2019 7:20:10 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: dead
The Germans invented beer.

"Every time you drink a beer a NAZI gets his angel wings."

139 posted on 07/20/2019 7:27:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: DFG

Von Braun was a member of the SS.
Story was he had to join but other reports said he wore his SS uniform quite frequently and appeared to like it. There are pics out on the web.


140 posted on 07/20/2019 7:31:46 PM PDT by 1066AD
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