Von Braun insisted throughout this minor ordeal that his appointment as an SS Sturmbannführer in 1937 had been purely honorary and without political significance. Yet von Braun, like Dornberger, had every opportunity to know what was happening at Nordhausen. Still, he continued to work industriously on behalf of the Reich until its final collapse.
He tinkered away on the missiles’ design, adding special insulation to prevent the machines from blowing up in flight, then improving the guidance system so that a greater percentage of the V‐2’s high‐explosive warheads succeeded in hitting London. Like Dornberger, von Braun pushed for increased production from the [neo]slaves at Nordhausen.
After the war, of course, von Braun asserted that he had been opposed to [Fascism] all along. His real reason for working in the [Fascist] missile program, he said, had been the potential usefulness of his machines in “space travel.”
It takes no courage to repeat a mantra that the neoliberal establishment has already been regurgitating for decades. Why not say something that’s more original and educational, like declaring Józef Piłsudski, Józef Beck, Konstantin Päts, Kārlis Ulmanis, Paul‐Boncour, Ramsay MacDonald, Neville Chamberlain, Édouard Daladier, Dr. Rudolf Kastner, Şükrü Saracoğlu & alii to be Fascist collaborators? I mean, who can honestly say that Western schools regularly teach their students these names while consistently neglecting to mention the German–Soviet Pact of 1939?
The Soviets cleared their own land to make way for Germanic settlers?
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