In a message dated 8/11/00 1:03:59 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> With von Braun on our side - we beat the bastards to the moon which was
> dream of JFK; but look who takes or tried to take the bows here
> recently, attempting to use even little John John.....so now father and
> son both dead.....and they did take a Gideon Bible to the moon.
Whatever aspirations the US had, if it could not achieve them without the
aid of Nazis, they weren't worth achieving. Our country did survive in name,
but look where we are now? We are a national security state that feeds its
own people into the machine of survival. Better that our country risk
annihilation than lose her soul.
http://www.akula.com/~donefer/paper/paper.htm
In 1944 and 1945, Wernher von Braun's V-2 rockets were causing mass
destruction in England and Belgium. Von Braun was Hitler's secret weapon, a
man feared greatly by the Allies.
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As the 1930's progressed, Wernher von Braun's activity with Nazis grew
deeper. He explains his actions later in life:
"In 1939 [sic] I was officially demanded to join the National Socialist
Party. At this time, I was already Technical Director at Peenemünde .... The
technical work had ... attracted attention at higher and higher levels. Thus,
my refusal to join the party would have meant that I would have to abandon
the work of my life. My membership in the party did not include any political
activity. 8"
On the other hand, Dorenberger used an old rule of the Weimar Republic still
in use, forcing anyone in the military to abstain from political affiliation.
The only Nazi affiliation Dorenberger had was his membership in the German
hunting club, leading one to question von Braun's reasoning for joining the
party. Dorenberger claimed that he himself was more interested in deer than
politics.
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>From 1950 on, he lived in Huntsville, Alabama working with the army and NASA
until he died in 1976.
Wernher von Braun went from enemy to national hero because of his involvement
in the creation of the Saturn V rocket, the rocket that in 1969 put a man on
the moon. Questions about his military allegiances were set aside for the
time while he was cast as a national hero.
One of the main questions raised by the story of Wernher von Braun is whether
a man's achievements should be based on where and why he did something or if
it should be based on pure scientific benefit in the long run. Von Braun's
story raises some compelling questions relating to this. Ultimately, to this
point in history, the V-2 and the ICBM far outweigh the few forays into space
made possible by von Braun's rocket technology.
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Samantha
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