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1. comput+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-01-21 00:08:28

  Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
  A man whose allegiance
  Is ruled by expedience
  Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
  "Ha, Nazi, Schmazi" says Wernher von Braun

  Don't say that he's hypocritical
  Say rather that he's apolitical
  "Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
  That's not my department" says Wernher von Braun
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2. dekhn+I1[view] [source] 2025-01-21 00:23:34
>>comput+(OP)
I strongly encourage people to read Operation Paperclip which tells the story about how the US smuggled Von Braun and many other german scientists into the US post-war, housed them, and gave them resources to develop ballistic missles. It also documents in detail how the Nazis used Jews and others as slave labor to build V-2.

(BTW; Von Braun cared greatly about "where they came down")

3. red-ir+Rf2[view] [source] 2025-01-21 18:11:23
>>comput+(OP)
"I always shot for the moon, but sometimes I hit London"
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