[arista]

New Documentary Tonight



[A program that brought German scientists,
including rocket experts like Wernher von Braun,
to the United States after World War II,
played a significant role in its development.
These scientists, who had worked on
advanced rocket technology for
the Nazi regime, including the V-2 missile,
Contributed their expertise to the US military
and later to NASA.
This influx of talent helped accelerate
America's space program,
particularly in areas like
rocket propulsion and missile development.]



[Kurt Debus (front row, third from the left),
a former V-2 rocket scientist who became a
NASA director, sitting between
US President John F. Kennedy and
US Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1962
at a briefing at Blockhouse 34,
Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

[Livia]

The USA "disappeared" some despicable war criminals to further their space race. Operation Paperclip saw 1600 Nazi engineers and scientists whose work enabled the destruction of Europe, spirited away to a bright and lucrative future in the USA, the only country to come out of WW2 in profit.

[arista]

On Ch4HD now

[arista]

Amazing
Wernher von Braun
was used by Disney TV show
way back then
to explain the Rockets
going to the Moon.

Because Russia was ahead
In the moon race,
America had no choice
to use Ex Nazi Scientists

[Livia]

Originally Posted by arista

Amazing
Wernher von Braun
was used by Disney TV show
way back then
to explain the Rockets
going to the Moon.

Because Russia was ahead
In the moon race,
America had no choice
to use Ex Nazi Scientists

America had no choice but to use Nazis? Well, that's a great comfort.

[Oliver_W]

Without WWII and adjacent events, the modern world in which we live wouldn't exist.

(For better or worse!)

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Without WWII and adjacent events, the modern world in which we live wouldn't exist.

(For better or worse!)

Everything moves on rapidly in a time of war, weapons, medicine... it's been like that since we've been having wars. Every time we go to war we're a little bit more efficient at killing each other and then repairing the wounded. My gripe is that the USA organised their involvement in WW2 like a business venture. I get tired of saying, we only paid back our WW2 debt to the USA in 2006, while the Americans were instrumental in insisting Germany was rebuilt and re-industrialised. The UK took decades to repair the damage of WW2 both to infrastructure and to the population. So when they say, yeah, we came and saved you all in WW2. No, we hired you and you took three years to get here. The USA sent us 50 moth-balled WW1 battleships most of which still hadn't worked at the end of the war and in return we gave them land rights to places then still under the empire. The USA won't do anything for nothing. British, Indian, Australian, Kiwi, Canadian, South African and Caribbean soldiers fought the Japanese in the Pacific, the war could not have been won without those countries, but you'd think the USA did it all alone. So them stealing away Nazis in the night for their own ends is really just par for the course.

I say this while not wishing to take away the bravery of the individual American soldier.