Von Braun was probably just a shitty opportunist who joined the SS cause it gave his rockets more funding(he did complain about the conditions in the V2 factories once, which got him a nice invitation to tea with the Gestapo). He went with America because they'd give him more rocket money. He should have been Gulag'd and forced to do Korolev's engine pressure sums for the next 40 years while a train of Jewish camp survivors endlessly spat in his face.
The others are committed Nazis who should have been walled immediately.
We'll never know the actual circumstances, but Von Braun's account was basically they came round with a signed request from Himmler and said "You can join the SS or we kick you off the rocket program and put you under surveillance as a potential dissident"
On the other hand we know he lied about wearing the uniform only once, and he was a member of the SS riding club for a short time some 7 years before which is not a good look.
He was also given a multitude of platforms with which to talk completely out of his ass about colonizing space and never be fact-checked. The 1950s were wild.
Von Braun was probably just a shitty opportunist who joined the SS cause it gave his rockets more funding(he did complain about the conditions in the V2 factories once, which got him a nice invitation to tea with the Gestapo). He went with America because they'd give him more rocket money. He should have been Gulag'd and forced to do Korolev's engine pressure sums for the next 40 years while a train of Jewish camp survivors endlessly spat in his face.
The others are committed Nazis who should have been walled immediately.
Oh don't say that he's hypocritical
Rather say he's apolitical
'So long as ze rockets go up who cares where ze come down'
'Thats not my department'
Says Wernher von Braun
Von Braun and most of the others were indeed quite opportunistic, but anyone who was SS was by definition a committed Nazi.
We'll never know the actual circumstances, but Von Braun's account was basically they came round with a signed request from Himmler and said "You can join the SS or we kick you off the rocket program and put you under surveillance as a potential dissident"
On the other hand we know he lied about wearing the uniform only once, and he was a member of the SS riding club for a short time some 7 years before which is not a good look.
He was also given a multitude of platforms with which to talk completely out of his ass about colonizing space and never be fact-checked. The 1950s were wild.
Truly the Elon Musk of his time.
not really, von Braun was an actual engineer and not a reddit level dipshit