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 weeks documentaries repeating the footage of Neil Armstrongs giant leap for mankind, his reaction would have been incandescent.
Amid the jubilation half a century ago, no one bothered to point out that Americas 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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The Left fomenting this psychotic hatred is looking for a war.
What happens when these people finally reach the Utopian society they are seeking?
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Nothing. Because it is only about the revolution and the revolution can never end. If they run out of serfs, they will simply manufacture more out of their own ranks.
IMHO, without the defense of England and the invasion of Europe, the war between Germany and the Soviets would have been a global-scale version of the thriller in Manila... Nothing in good health would have been left standing...
George P's "accidental" death happened most likely because he was one of the few America leaders with the balls to state the obvious...
Anyone who’s owned a Volkswagen should be severely dealt with.
Yes - I’m waiting for an article about the moon and Nixon. With a tie-in to Trump.
Perhaps “Just as Nixon took credit for the moon landings, he was just riding the coat-tails of what President Kennedy had set in motion. Not unlike Trump enjoying the economic prosperity that President Obama had left him with.”
Admit it: the Revolutionary War has your panties in a wad.
Using Nazis for the technological expertise needed to go to the moon wasn’t the real problem.
We also used Nazi expertise (and after the Cold War, East German) to help build the modern Amerikan federal police state.
WE won't be there to see.
“Amid the jubilation half a century ago, no one bothered to point out that Americas scientists had been given a huge helping hand.”
It was a huge secret...right. Everybody following the space program in the 50s and 60s knew the top rocket scientists came out of Germany at the end of WW II. See “Operation Paperclip.”
I was an eleven year old reading Werner von Braun’s monthly column in Popular Science in 1962 and knew where he came from.
The Allies pardoned or reduced sentences on many mid-level Nazis to encourage West German participation in Cold War defense. It worked.
At least two former Confederate generals served in the U.S. Army forces in the Span Am War. Mebbe we should give Puerto Rico back to Spain since we gained it through the efforts of evil former slave owners.
Porsches too.
Maybe Isettas and Beamers.
As evil as the Nazis were, the modern there’s nothing too far Left anymore that we consider extreme Left is worse.
The Nazis, scum sucking neo-pagan Christ and Jew hating racist as they were at least imagined they were doing their thing in the name preserving their nation and the culture ... they were deceived but that’s what they were led to believe. And there is still a shred of humanity left in that.
But these that the Cultural Marxist shat out to benefit the old Soviet Union do what they do — from baby killing to celebrating homosexuality and gender madness to importing Islam — because it’s wrong to want your own nation and your own culture. Because we have privilege and we are oppressors because they say we have privilege and are oppressors.
They are often so far gone that they simply cannot comprehend that all forms of nationalism aren’t National Socialism. Patriotism is to their like (the Leftwing Woke) simply a thin veil over the naked truth that, well, America is bad unless it opens the door, is queer embracing and as not-Christian and not-European as can possibly be ... well that makes us not as bad I suppose.
The Cultural Marxist set out to create Useful Idiots incapable of sustaining a civilization and a nation and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams for they crafted people ultimately incapable of sustaining the very human race, whose ideological Stupidity is so profound that they’ve maxed out what humans even have the ability to strive for when it comes to Stupidity, being unable to threaten life and existence beyond the earth.
The Nazis were evil, but the wacko lunatic Left in its mealy mouthed pretending to be nice though vile evil and over the top Stupidity is worse.
In 1984 we were treated to the imagery of the whole nation yelling their rage at the other, but with the very real American Left they rage against their neighbor, their country.
So instead of a boot on the neck of Man forever it is a Social Justice Warrior screeching incoherently in the face of Mankind ... forever.
Of course the German scientists helped with the lunar program. They made it a point to surrender to American soldiers. And by the way, the actual manufacture of the V2 killed more people than the rockets themselves.
Also, it could be said that the nazis developed the delivery systems for the ICBMs. If you looked at the Manhattan Project, you will find a lot of Europeans wholl happened to be Jewish.
German scientists only played a small role in our space program. Everyone knows the brains behind it were Black women. I know that’s true because I saw it in the movies.
The dude has quite the pair on him, I have Family that died fighting to free his s**tty island.
Yes, And UK only survived with the help of that sane America. Like is complex. Id suggest that our good British friends clean the Nazis out of their government now - if theyre concerned about Nazis. ( just like USA needs to clear the commie- Nazis -islamonazis out of Congress, etc). Todays problems are much more important than some now- deceased scientists from 50 years ago)
“I think what Trump is basically doing is trying to finish WWII and defeat Fascism.”
Maybe he wants to or maybe he doesn’t now that he has dodged the coup attempt by DOJ; but you know he can’t. The deep state still owns the bureaucracies and the federal police state agencies. This is where the fascism has become deeply rooted in and accepted by our culture. People are used to it and even embrace it as a necessary part of a free republic.
The stupid propagandized sheep come in red and blue colors.
That gave me a chuckle. Such a good movie
Ah, those English are still sore about the flying gas mains.
Werner Von Braun had an autobiography ghost written so that he and the other German scientists would become more acceptable to the public, I Aim for the Stars. An English comedian added the subtitle ...But Sometimes I Hit London.
I would say that if you subtract out the racist element, there is not much difference in the Nazi versus the modern EU conception of the state.
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