Early support only makes it worse. Later support might reasonably be explained away as pragmatism (think von Braun at Mittelbau, who, according to the accepted

Early support only makes it worse. Later support might reasonably be explained away as pragmatism (think von Braun at Mittelbau, who, according to the accepted American interpretation, just cared a bit too little about how exactly he would to get ahead with his goal of shooting stuff to space), but early support is pure embracing of ideology and ruthlessness (see sibling comments).