If you would like to read more about this, here are some articles:
https://time.com/5627637/nasa-nazi-von-braun/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/1433245 https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/5/3/wernher-von-braun-historys-most-controversial-figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Backfire_(World_War_II) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Germans_relocated_to_the_US_via_the_Operation_Paperclip https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/gzkgta/nazi_and_jewish_scientists_at_nasa/fthzz6r/It’s controversial. A lot of old science comes from abhorrent backgrounds. Life consists of various shades of grey.
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lettruthout@lemmy.world 3 months agoAnd even if they were, what harm did this cause while working for NASA?
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RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The US deliberately hid their involvement in some absolutely horrendous crimes - von Brown oversaw a facility where tens of thousands of people were murdered - so they were not prosecuted for war crimes. There were plenty of people in the US who could have replicated the work, but they were so worried about the Soviets that they let some truly monstrous people go totally unpunished to get ahead