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Did you forget that most of his colleagues worked with the USSR? Von Braun was just lucky that the US got to him and captured him first.
by fakedang 5mo ago
Did you forget that most of his colleagues worked with the USSR? Von Braun was just lucky that the US got to him and captured him first.
- atrettel 5mo agoVon Braun was not "just lucky" to get captured by the US. He and his immediate staff took active steps to get captured by the Americans [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Surrender_to_the_Americans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Surrender_to...
- catigula 5mo agoDumb comment. Nazis were blood enemies of communists. They didn’t want to fight the Americans or even the British.
- fakedang 5mo agoAnd yet how many Nazi scientists advanced the Soviet nuclear and aerospace programmes willingly? How many former Nazis joined the Stasi? Hint hint, a fucking lot.