Fascism didn't drive rocketry, the needs of war did. And I'm not aware that Germany made many advances in the field of computing, either - I suppose you could a

Fascism didn't drive rocketry, the needs of war did. And I'm not aware that Germany made many advances in the field of computing, either - I suppose you could argue that the Enigma machine was a part of that, but (a) that was again driven by war, and (b) was answered by Poland and the UK by building cryptanalysis machinery that arguably led directly to the first actual computers.