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.
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Yeah, we should have let the Russkies grab Von Braun and the others. /s
And...?
Sounds suspicious...
Tom Bower needs to have the knackwurst removed that’s up his butt.
We need more monsters, then.
The Boer wars where they starved a good many women and children of the Boers during that war. .
The Brits. A once proud Navy hundreds of years ago, and now a conquered nation of muslims.
And was an enthusiastic STASI member.
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.
Not because they rioted and beat up people, but because they were aligned with the party that enabled it.
-PJ
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.
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.
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”.
Vunce za rockets go up, who cares vere zey kom down, that's not my department...[-Tom Lehrer].
The only joy the buzzkill artists of the Left know is the joy of sneering, denunciation, and destruction.
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
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.
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