It’s not really funny.
project paperclip be like
Submitted 14 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 1 hour ago
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
To be fair to Von Braun, he did have slaves build his rockets.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 32 minutes ago
Wasn’t just Von Braun and the V2. Me-262s were built with forced labor. Then there’s the Comet, which was an amazingly bad idea. I’m surprised it wasn’t flown by slave labor, as little as they seemed to care for the pilot’s safety. The fuel was so corrosive that if it leaked the pilot would be dissolved alive.
carrylex@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Ferrous@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
The difference is that the Americans rolled out a red carpet for the Nazis and offered employment contracts. The Soviets showed up one night and kidnapped nearly 7000 nazis at gunpoint, and then forced them to work to pay reparations. Based.
AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 1 hour ago
The remaining Axis scientists that the Soviets did capture still had to live in unglamorous conditions: on some projects the Soviet authorities limited the rôle of the Axis specialists merely to consultation and practical training.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 hours ago
And now the Marxist state is a fascist one.
Hmm.
ShoeThrower@lemmy.zip 1 hour ago
And the one that fought fascism is a fascist one.
Hmm.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 12 hours ago
Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer
R.I.P. Tom Lehrer
(Heard this first in For All Mankind, an excellent show I recommend to everyone, pirate it if you don’t have Apple TV+.)
Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 13 hours ago
I feel like the “Nazi SS Officer” part should also be the ostrich
Goretantath@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Its the reason the USA is fucked right now, they witness protectioned a bunch of nazis and they grew familys based on evil values.
carrylex@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Well Wernher von Braun was a weird one… for example he opposed segregation while some local govenor clearly did not
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 hours ago
I do not think german nazis were too motivated against africans, specially african-americans. They were ultra racist against Jewish and Slavic.
The American nazis were the ones obsessed with skin color against black people.
At least that’s the impression I get when reading about those times.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 10 hours ago
Hitler was inspired by the US manifest destiny and genocide of the native americans, nazis did well in the US because they fit perfectly in, they did not corrupt the US.
Bristlecone@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Among other things
yucandu@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
What were they supposed to do, leave them all to Operation Osoaviakhim?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
the problem after WWII was there was only one christopher lee
if_only@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
How many were there before that?
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I did a report on this in 5th grade, people thought I was making it up.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 hours ago
i had someone here on lemmy try to say the scientists recruited to the US via operation paperclip weren’t involved in crimes against humanity. a lot of people have missed in the shuffle of the past 80 years exactly what happened during the holocaust.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social 12 hours ago
The US is all about realpolitik, and begins to make a lot more sense when you look at everything through a Kissinger-shaped lens (rest in piss, you evil bastard). We pretend to be ideological so our citizenry can feel good about ourselves, but the way the nation operates is purely pragmatic. Look no further than Israel-Palestine and how buddy-buddy we are with Saudi Arabia for modern examples. Even our support of Ukraine, while overlapping with an ethical imperative, is driven primarily by the interests of NATO and the relatively inexpensive degradation of Russia’s military and political standing we can participate in. We only give a shit about “human rights” when it benefits us.
Operation Paperclip was pragmatism. It creates a sense of cognitive dissonance when we try to hold in our minds that we brought Nazi scientists over and the idea that we’re “the good guys” and fought for “justice,” so our brains try to reduce that cognitive dissonance by saying those scientists weren’t behind any of the evils of the Nazis. They were, obviously. That didn’t matter to our government, but they kept the operation classified for a reason.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I think the US media has washed their image so clean with the WW2 movies that most people have no idea about stuff like the nazi rally happened in the US and the support for eugenics in the Us, and the concentration camps in the Us.