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That's not exactly a wild thing; it was no secret at all that Werner von Braun was at the heart of the Apollo program while it was happening. The Soviets and B
by lenerdenator 2y ago
That's not exactly a wild thing; it was no secret at all that Werner von Braun was at the heart of the Apollo program while it was happening.
The Soviets and British did the same thing, IIRC.
The lesson is simple: if you're going to lose a war, lose a war as a guy who is good at something, because the new management will be a lot less likely to hold crimes against humanity against you.
- sybercecurity 2y agoEven mentioned in a darkly humorous tone in the 1968 movie "Ice Station Zebra" (cold war thriller). The character played by Patrick McGoohan has a line: " The Russians put our camera made by our German scientists and your film made by your German scientists into their satellite made by their German scientists."
- buildsjets 2y agoI mean, Tom Lehrer had a whole song about it and everything. It was on the radio quite a bit at the time. Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun, A man whose allegiance Is ruled by expedience. Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown, "Ha, Nazi, Schmazi, " says Wernher von Braun. http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Humorous_Songs/Wernher-Von-Braun.phtml http://www.protestsonglyrics.net/Humorous_Songs/Wernher-Von-...
- dllthomas 2y agohttps://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/ https://tomlehrersongs.com/wernher-von-braun/ is perhaps a better link.
- buildsjets 2y agoNo, not really. It doesn’t display the lyrics, and there is no entertaining video of Tom Lehrer.
- dllthomas 2y agoIt does display the lyrics w/ one click, also the sheet music, has multiple recordings, and is actually Lehrer's site. It's true that there's no video.
- Log_out_ 2y agoOr just do those crimes and never loose a war. The moral is you can get away with all the murder if you are not an upstart and can write it out of your history. Can even be a hero of history prosecuting people for the crimes you commit. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9735018/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9735018/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/la-famine-de-1866-1868-anatomie-dune-catastrophe-et-construction- https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/la-famine-...