NASA's Nazi Memorials - Honouring War Criminals 2024

It is a factual claim that the first decades of the US space program owed its success to Nazi Germany. The Americans recognized that it was Nazi scientists, engineers and technicians who first developed the vehicles that allowed man to enter space and this followed that possession of Such personnel would be vital to any nation seeking to build a successful ballistic missile program. and a space program, as both the United States and the Soviet Union embarked immediately at the conclusion of World War II in 1945, both nations actively sought to capture the Nazi rocket. engineers and other technical scientists and have them work for them in the growing space race, and it is a fact that the United States was more successful in persuading the Germans to work in it than the Soviets, who had to use threats and coercion to force them . ex-Nazi scientist cooperating for the Americans was much easier a special intelligence operation was launched to find and recruit Hitler's rocket The staff called operation cloudy later changed to clip began on July 20, 1945 a staggering 1,600 scientists , German engineers and technicians were In the process, they were sent to the US, where their wartime service records were cleared of involvement in very real war crimes and they settled into productive and lucrative work in American facilities. well-funded, accompanied by their families, honored and often highly respected guests from the US and many others.

He later became a US citizen. A German scientist took the United States to the Moon in 1969. This photograph was taken in 1962 at the Cape Canaveral missile test. The annex shows President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, sitting next to them are two former SS officer war

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, these Nazi hands. They were soaked in blood in World War II, but today they are widely honored by NASA and many other American entities, just two examples of how the United States honors Hitler's henchmen even in

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. The problem with NASA personnel Operation Paperclip dates back to the activities of men during World War II in To boost Ford technology at such astonishing speed to give Hitler jet planes and rockets, crews and ballistic missiles, tens of thousands of innocent people were deliberately killed. ;

First of all, the American Homeland was not on the receiving end of the rockets and missiles. Unlike Britain and other wartime locations, the V1, the world's first truly effective cruise missile, was used in a bombing campaign against Britain between 12 June 1944 and 29 March 1945. During that time, 10,492 V1s were dropped on Britain killing 6,000 people and injuring more than 18,000. More than 1 million buildings were destroyed or damaged by the V1 flying bombs. Nearly 2,000 flying bombs fell victim to Allied fighter aircraft. Of the 8,000 bombs dropped, 2,300 penetrated the British defences, most of them falling in the vicinity of London. The roar of the flying bomb was easily identified and warned of the impending explosion.

New deep shelters built for this emergency were put into use saving the lives of thousands of people, at the same time Britain was also being bombed with the most advanced V2 ballistic missile, the first man-made object to travel into space on June 20. 1944 the first V2 fell on Great Britain on September 8 of that year and the last on March 27, 1945 between these two dates more than 1,400 V2 hit England killing 2,754 people and injuring another 6,523 that the British could never we ignore the distrust and dislike of the men who built these weapons and used them in the name of Adolf Hitler against the United Kingdom and which fell into British hands at the end of the war.

Our own attempt to run a V2 test program. The rockets called Operation Counterproductive were brief and very limited, as soon as they could, the Nazi scientists sought new employment with much friendlier Americans and there was another reason outside the use of such weapons in acts of war that turned the stomachs of many people with regarding the Germans. Scientific and technical, the V1 and V2 were built in secret factories utilizing vast armies of foreign Force workers and slave labor from the concentration camp system. The men who built the rockets knew all about the misery these workers suffered and the frighteningly high mortality rates caused by this. criminal system run by very cruel SS officers the V weapons program ended up in the hands of Henrik Himler SS and was led by SS obr fura Dr Hunt CER, a barbaric mass murderer who would walk over thousands of corpses to make the weapons they kept coming. and attack the allies, the scientists, far from being harmless apolitical brainiacs who happened to work for an evil regime, brilliant men years ahead of their time, tragically hooked on an evil empire, were actually fully paid and often honest supporters of Germany. of Hitler who accepted high-level positions. in SS and Nazi State medals despite their post-war protests of innocence, so how many people died building V-weapons?

At least 20,000, perhaps many more, which actually exceeds the number of people killed in Britain by V-guns, thousands more. They were found clinging to life and suffering from disease, hunger and overwork by the advancing Allies who liberated the fields and Factories at the end of the war, but the scientists in the clip were exonerated of such war crimes activities by the US government without number of trials for them the two main na war

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who brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Alren to the surface of the Moon in 1969, where Fon Brown and Kurt Deus. I'm not kidding when I say that, in addition to planting the Stars and Stripes in the arid lunar soil, Armstrong and Aldren should have also planted the Nazi flag because without large numbers of Nazis it is doubtful that NASA would have been able to take its giant leap for humanity. so quickly.

A giant leap for humanity over a mountain of human corpses completely forgotten today and also in 1969. My problem is It's not that the United States used Nazi war criminals for its own purposes, we all did it with the Soviets, the French, the British, etc. My problem is that in

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these unrepentant criminals are still so widely honored in the United States, which is ironic in an America so busy recovering. -evaluating and rearranging your own history, such as tearing down Confederate statues, etc., seems like a very ambiguous position, so let's briefly examine the two main war criminals that the United States still chooses to honor the FNA.

Von Brown was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Germany and a pioneer of the later American space program and note here the pronunciation of his name. Most Americans call him Werner Von braw, but his real name in German is Vera Fon Brown and in fact he was a baron in the middle part of his name contains the word frir, so we have a Prussian aristocrat of a distinguished conservative family involved in some of the worst crimes of the 20th century. An opportunist. His early work with Rockets earned him the approval of the Nazi party which he joined on November 20, 1937, being a member of the party helped his career despite his postwar protests that his membership in the party was some kind of of formality;

In fact, he received numerous letters of praise for the outstanding performance of his duties during the time he worked under the Nazi Party in 1937. Von Brown was also an SS officer. He had first joined the SS algam minina in November 1933 and in 1940 was commissioned as an SS fura or second lieutenant. Fon Brown explained that her commission was imposed by Himler who was trying to force his way into her. about the then army-run missile program, Fon Brown claimed that he only wore his black uniform once during Himmler's visit to Punda where the Rockets were demonstrated, but in 2002 a former SS officer colleague recalls that Fon Brown he actually wore his SS uniform at all official meetings he was also steadily promoted in the ranks of the SS on November 19, 1941, promoted to orom fur or leftenant in November 1942 to Hom fur or Captain and finally to ssan fura or greater in June 1943, the following month, after Hitler was shown color images of a V2.

Taking off successfully, he personally appointed Fon Brown to a professorship, Dr. Arur Rudolph, who led the effort to develop the V2 as a weapon to bomb London and later, a senior NASA official personally approved the use of manpower enslaved by Ca to manufacture the weapons in the underground factory M. Fon Brown himself visited the plant many times and saw for himself the conditions in which these slaves worked and admitted that in 1944 deaths were occurring. Some witness testimony alleged that Von Brown was much more hands-on during his visits to M and was seen. Walking passionately among piles of dead workers who had died from overwork or had been executed as part of the punishment process the SS had implemented regardless of the truth.

Fon Brown tried in the postwar period to excuse his involvement in the murders by saying that he knew what was happening. but they felt powerless to help change the situation, many other men who had engaged in production using slave labor but who lacked F. Brown's base of special scientific and technical skills would be tried for their crimes for having used consciously said labor in the course of its work. Fon Brown was not only promoted by the Nazis, he was also honored by them: he received the War Merit Cross 1st class with swords and later the very rare Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross with swords.

Fon Brown and his friends surrendered to the Nazis. The US Army in May 1945 knew its value and also gave the Americans 14 tons of V2 Tech materials and technical documents which, accompanied by the V2 missiles that the Americans captured, allowed the Americans to advance immeasurably in its own space and nuclear missile programs. Von Brown and his team the Nazis would work in Huntsville Alabama for 20 years led the Army's development of the Redstone rocket as director of the Operations Division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency Von Brown and his team developed Jupiter, the base for the jun01 rocket that successfully launched the first rocket of the West The Explorer satellite one in June 1958 began the US Space Program.

A project like putting a satellite into orbit is only possible if there is splendid teamwork throughout moment. In this particular case, this teamwork initially involved close cooperation between our own military ballistic missile. agency in Huntville Alabama and the jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California between the two of us developed the vehicle that took the satellite into orbit always interested in manned space flights and landing on the moon and Mars even in World War II in NASA Von Brown was responsible for the Mercury Redstone rocket that put the first American in space Alan Shephard aboard the Freedom 7 or Mercury Redstone 3 in May 1961 his team began working on the Apollo program and the Saturn rocket that would take the man to the Moon working closely with another old Nazi Dr.

Kurt Deus, first director of the Kennedy Space Center, had worked closely with Fon Brown at Punda during the war as V weapons flight director. A former schum abong or sa man of 19 33 deos had joined the algam SS in 1940 and was already a member of the Nazi party, he was the engineer in charge of the V2 test facilities, like Fon Brown deos, he was intimately aware of the atrocities of slave labor , but ignored the suffering to further his own research and the goal of Hitler and the Vengeance weapons program. Deus himself worked for the British. During the operation he backfired in October 1945 before Hast transferred to Texas under Operation Paperclip.

Deus led the design development and construction of NASA's Saturn launch facilities at Cape Canaveral and Meritt Island. He was the first director of the Kennedy Space Center and was involved with Apollo and Skylab. Before retiring, to say that Von Brown and Deus's work was appreciated by his new Masters was a huge understatement; Von Brown received a shower of honors among many honors awarded: the National Medal of Science in 1975 and Deus twice received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal and the Outstanding Award. US Army Civilian Medal, so it is not surprising that both men were widely honored in other ways and, despite their Nazi past and involvement in the Holocaust, continue to be honored untilthe present day.

Redstone Arsenal contains the Von Brown complex used by the Mile Defense Agency. Also containing a monument to Fon Brown, the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama has information panels praising Fon Brown in a positive way, including a massive quote from him towering over one story. The city of Huntsville also has the Von Brown Center which contains sports facilities. and a concert hall, plus Huntsville also has Von Brown Drive Northwest, a road named in his honor. The University of Alabama in Huntsville has the Fon Brown Research Hall and a bust and two plaques on campus. There is no mention of Fon Brown's Nazi past or slave labor Huntsville's Monty Seno State Park contains the Vov Von Brown Planetarium, owned by the Von Brown Astronomical Society, on land owned by the Alabama division of state parks.

A plaque honoring Von Brown, who is referred to as a German immigrant in the Alabama Men's Hall, can be found on the plaque. of fame in Birmingham Dr. Deus has a similar monument the Kennedy Space Center has the Dr. Kur H Deus conference facilities Deus' NASA biography does not actually mention his Nazi past or his membership in the SS despite that Deos wore his SS officer uniform daily according to the Witnesses while working on the B2 project the Deus conference facilities present the Dr. Kur H Deus Memorial award on behalf of the committee of the National Space Club Florida do what you want with this information that I have perhaps given them the brilliance of both Fon Brown Deus and the other 1,600 paperclip scientists and technicians and what they accomplish for the United States surpasses the piles of corpses in Germany, you might think that honoring those men, regardless of his talents, today is stupid and insensitive, either way, let me know in the comments section below and, by the way, Von Brown. and Deus are not the only fully paid Nazis and former SS officers proudly honored by the United States today, but they are perhaps the most famous.

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