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Originally Posted by i'va biggen
Like Werner Von Braun
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bah. Von Braun was not a hard core NAZI you idiot fucktard.
Von Braun cosied up up to the Wehrmacht because they were his only source of funding for his large scale rocket plans. but .. if you weren't an ignert troll you'd know that yeah?
German career
Involvement with the Nazi regime
Party membership
Von Braun had an ambivalent and complex relationship with the Nazi regime of the
Third Reich. He officially applied for membership in the
Nazi Party on November 12, 1937 and was issued with membership number 5,738,692.
[19]:96
Michael J. Neufeld, the widely published author of aerospace history and the chief of the Space History Division at the Smithsonian's
National Air and Space Museum, wrote that ten years after von Braun obtained his Nazi Party membership, he produced an affidavit for the U.S. Army misrepresenting the year of his membership, saying incorrectly:
[19]:96
In 1939, I was officially demanded to join the National Socialist Party. At this time I was already Technical Director at the Army Rocket Center at Peenemünde (Baltic Sea). The technical work carried out there had, in the meantime, attracted more and more attention in higher levels. Thus, my refusal to join the party would have meant that I would have to abandon the work of my life. Therefore, I decided to join. My membership in the party did not involve any political activity.
Whether von Braun's error with regard to the year was deliberate or a simple mistake has never been ascertained, although Neufeld stated that he might have lied on the affidavit.
[19]:96 Neufeld further wrote:
Von Braun, like other Peenemünders, was assigned to the local group in Karlshagen; there is no evidence that he did more than send in his monthly dues. But he is seen in some photographs with the party's swastika pin in his lapel – it was politically useful to demonstrate his membership.[19]:96
His attitude toward the National Socialist regime in the late 1930s and early 1940s is difficult to understand. By his own account, he had been so influenced by the early Nazi promise of release from the
post–World War I economic effects, that his
patriotic feelings had increased.[
citation needed] In a 1952 memoir article he admitted that, at that time, he "fared relatively rather well under
totalitarianism".
[19]:96–97 Yet, he also wrote that "to us, Hitler was still only a pompous fool with a
Charlie Chaplin moustache"
[20] and that he perceived him as "another
Napoleon" that was "wholly without scruples, a
godless man who thought himself the only god".
[21]
once again the idiot troll of ECC makes an .. idiot of himself. it's all you seem to be good at, Ivan.
