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Man. Von Braun? That’s not someone to name anything after. Please read Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen. What Von Braun did was beyond horrible so much s
by firefix 6y ago
Man. Von Braun? That’s not someone to name anything after.
Please read Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen.
What Von Braun did was beyond horrible so much so to make the death camps look less bad in comparison, which is really saying something.
They plowed through people making them death march then dig huge underground missile factories with their bare hands, then had them make missiles to kill their families and to help their enemies try to win the war, with the majority of them dying in the process.
- frostburg 6y agoAmong other things, it must be said that each V2 was completely useless to the war effort and cost as much as several tanks. They didn't even tie up anti-air resources because it was impossible to intercept one.
- Thrymr 6y agoIt also took ~30,000 potatoes to make the alcohol fuel for each rocket, while German food supplies were running low during the last winter of the war [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket
- sesuximo 6y agoThat books is really powerful. Something about it hit me more than other things on the topic