[Stu]

Originally Posted by lostalex

who are you referring to specifically? ALl the major german scientists i know of escaped to the US, not "kidnapped by the US" as you are implying.

Please edify us all of the specific NAZI scientists yu are referring to in the US space program.

Rudolph Ammann, Rudi Beichel, Werner Dahm, Konrad Dannenberg, Kurt H. Debus, Ernst R. G. Eckert, Krafft Arnold Ehricke, Ernst Geissler, Dieter Grau, Walter Häussermann, Karl Heimburg, Otto Hirschler, Helmut Hoelzer, Hans Hueter, Wilhelm Jungert, Heinz-Hermann Koelle, Hermann H. Kurzweg, Fritz Mueller, Willy Mrazek, Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, Eberhard Rees, Gerhard Reisig, Georg Rickhey, Werner Rosinski, Ludwig Roth, Arthur Rudolph, Harry Ruppe, August Schulze, Walter Schwidetzky, Ernst Stuhlinger, Bernhard Tessmann, Adolf Thiel, Wernher von Braun, Albert Zeiler, Theodor Karl, Otto Vowe Georg von Tiesenhausen.

What makes you think I implied kidnap? They escaped just like you said to the US. The US gave them a helping hand though. Many of those men could have been tried but were not because they were needed by the US.

Take a look at the case of central figure Wernher von Braun. A former SS officer who ended up director of the United States Marshall Space Flight center. He spearheaded the Saturn V booster rocket that put your countrymen on the moon.

Why don't you look up Operation Paperclip. Once a project your government kept secret but these days you can read all about it. Knowledge is power.