• huf [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    wait a tick, was he even arrested by the nazis? or are you really basing this on a photograph and the fact that he was replaced at the peenemunde facility around the time of the march assassination attempt?

    edit: no, sorry, none of this makes sense.

    according to you, the timeline is this:

    13 March 1943 - attempt on hitler
    March 1944 - dornberger is replaced
    20 July 1944 - another attempt on hitler

    and you're saying that he was replaced because he was implicated in the plot? and they waited a whole year? or they could see into the future?

      • huf [he/him]
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        9 months ago

        ah, sorry, yes.

        so the timeline becomes:

        13 March 1943 - attempt on hitler
        March 1944 - himmler convinced hitler to hand the v2 project over to the SS
        20 July 1944 - another attempt on hitler
        aug 8 1944 - dornberger is replaced

        but it goes on:

        December 1944, Dornberger was given complete authority for anti-aircraft rocket development
        In February 1945, Dornberger and staff relocated his headquarters from Schwedt-an-der-Oder to Bad Sachsa,

        so the project was already slated to be handed over to the SS and then dornberger was implicated in the plot but was not arrested, not imprisoned, not killed, just replaced, but he still got to be an officer and had staff and was in charge of developing rockets in some other project.

        okay. help me make it make sense.