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  • Von Braun was kind of a Faustian figure, as he signed a pack with the devil to reach his goals and fulfill his dreams.

  • It is obvious that Von Braun was man who did unspeakle acts and should have been tried. But if he is to be blamed then the US authorities should share the blame for bringing him in.

  • german flag should fly on the moon

    but americans were stupid at the day.......they didnt used completely his knowledge and ideas and they focused too much budget on military, and other american shit

    if they only fulfilled von braun wishes, we would be mastering the space warfare today

  • Unscrupulous Opportunist!!!!! The Son of a Bitch built the Nuclear Weapons that were thrown on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and has taken all the Technoly of Hitler to the USA! Now we3 are killing Millions in the name of peace!!! I have ZERO admiration for this man or any of the other creeps ( 2000) of them that came here to the US under Operation Paper Clip!!! NAZISCHWEIN!!!!!

  • @BluesHarp60 von Braun developed the A-Bomb? Thought that was Oppenheimer. Wait, it was Oppenheimer! Stop talking crap here. von Braun surely would have deserved to be hung in Nünberg, he was just too valuable and skilled to be killed. Simple as that. And your Government back in the days thought exactly the same. And without the brilliant minds of Operation Peperclip, we would all speak Russian today. And btw. these guys were not all Jew-eating monsters. Not all of them developed weapons!

  • @BluesHarp60

    oppenheimer (and einstein) was the father of the bomb.

  • Wernher von Braun was a genius!

  • The holocaust was wrong..

    bud i'd rather have that happen and our species advanced than us not advance at all.

  • I can only imagine what germany would be had hitler not come to power. Germany would have been bigger then what the ussr was. Germany. Had hitler never been i think germany would have been the super power of europe and pretty much what the usa became. Germany has always been held back by her neighbors but she has more potential/

  • Thompson's too funny; "he was a nazy; he stole nazy secrets and gave them to the americans!"

  • As Timothy Ferris mentions in his "Science of Liberty", Werner Von Braun signed onto the German Army before the Nazies took power.

    I would further reiterate, Mr Braun choose America over the Soviets, the English(because they had little money for rocketry), and the French. He did things to further his research.

  • this man was a genio

  • Does ANYONE know what the music is at the start of this?

  • @PlusSumGame It's the intro music from the movie the Rock (starring Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery) by Hans Zimmer

  • clearly he defecfted to the U.S. and he was forced to do what he had to for the NAZI or he d be killed

  • clearly he defecfted to the U.S.

  • this gay born i same city als i'm

  • He was the single greatest scientist of the 20th century.

  • Wernher von Braun is the greatest scientist in world,icon for genius.

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  • @iskander982 I think you are a fucking libtard that doesn't know shit about warfare. He has done MORE than enough to redeem himself. He helped put a man on the moon and PIONEERED rocket safety for the greater good of humanity. You are like one of those morons who says.

    "I don't care what people say about heath ledger he should still be punished in hell for making that movie broke back mountain", even though he has a kid and isn't technically gay

  • @EpiDemic117 I am sorry? Done enough? Did he ever publicly repent for his Nazi past? NO! In fact him, Arthur Rudolph and all other "Americans" say that they never used slave labour in Penemunde. They even said that Mittelwerk was a place where labours were well fed, that they had the best medical care etc. It is well documented that Penemunde had slaves, and that Mittelwerk was not Diesneyland. Watch "The Lost Von Braun" at watch?v=GxiJJS5W65A and then speak bullshit my retarded friend.

  • @iskander982 It doesn't fucking matter what you are saying now. he is already dead yet you are still bitching about his nazi past. You are also claiming that I'm not aware and agree with what he did. But the WAR IS FUCKING OVER. Hating him for what he helped us accomplish with the apollo missions is like hating every jap in japan for what they did to us in pearl harbor (we still nuked them) war is war and it was never meant to be fair. Von braun was still a genius regardless of what you say

  • @EpiDemic117 This only brings us to my first comment on this video. Is Von Braun a great scientist - YES, is he a hero - NO!

  • @iskander982 the fucking hell with your stupid video. Just as boring as the moon hoaxers claiming that we never went to the moon.

  • @EpiDemic117 You really are an idiot. You have statements of director of Nazi crime unit in US dept of Justice, curator of Smithsonian museum, and Alex Baum, a survivor of Dora about the events and you call this video stupid and boring. Well its not a colorful and almost romantic tale about a hero Von Braun, the man who took America to the Moon. This is a story of a much darker figure and certainly not a hero. So,If you are narrow minded then go ahead, and worship your hero.

  • @iskander982 so what can you do now? go back in time and change history? Ahh good old stubborn arrogance.

  • @iskander982 stupid christian yuppie

  • Lot of Poilitical Buulshit by people who hate Werner Von. He was rocket man and did his job to put first man on the moon.

    His critique like that British guy can not come to term with that he was good scientist and good vision.

    Rocket is not a problem, but what is put in the rocket is the problem. Good that U.S.A untilized him to his full potential. His skills put U.S.A ahead of russian and won the space race.

  • Von Braun oftenly said that a rocket is just a vehicle, and that its payload ( read BOMB) isn't of his concern. Well Bruno Emil Tesch invented Zyclon - B gas as an insecticide. But yet, his product was used for murdering millions in gas chambers. Finally, he was hanged for his role in the Holocaust.. Why was this man hanged? For inventing an insecticide? NO! He was hanged because he knew what his gas is used for, but he did nothing to prevent it. Just like Von Braun, only he didn't hanged!

  • @iskander982 Bruno Emil Tesch was hanged because the US couldn't find use for him.

  • @iskander982 well said, was gonna quote what you wrote but it was too long. taking peoples lives is never ok.

  • @iskander982

    but i think that zyklon b was not invented to kill people. i do not think that this was his goal. it was a poison to desinfect.

  • It is sad most of the Americans think of Von Braun as some kind of a hero. This is a man who built V-2 rockets for Hitler that killed hundreds of people. He HAND PICKED slave labour for V-2 factory Mittelwerk near Nordhausen in Germany. The slave labour was brought from a near by Dora concentration camp. As a result of his actions, more than 25 000 people died. He was a good scientist, but also a war criminal. Many Nazies were hanged for far less serious crimes.

  • im glad im related to him.

  • Question: if the US had somehow lost WWII after the Hiroshima bombing, would Oppenheimer or Teller be considered war criminals?

  • NASIS SS=NASA=JA JA

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  • I don't understand the REASON for saying that "space is for humanity," [not nationalities]. One might as well have said (discounting, for a perilous moment, natives) "North America is for humanity -- not France, Spain, or England." It sounds as ridiculous on the face of it.

    So there has to be some sound REASON for such a sentiment. If not, the sentiment alone isn't strong enough to secure the sentimental goal. Seriously. I don't disagree. But we gotta have sound reasons for that.

  • it seems remarkable to me that nobody notes that Werner Von Braun chose america(and a bunch of others who believed in him; many german rocket scientists chose to go to russia - but not Werner Von Braun) and not the Soviets.

    I of course bring up once again that those pooh-pooing that he was a nazy during nazy germany don't appreciate that in that kind of environment, you become a nazy or get jailed and a lot of suspicious eye; those pooh-poohing Werner Von Braun are immature;

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  • he was really from africa Namibia.

  • germany lose so many scientists and intelligence to usa due to the war. as a result, usa rule the world.

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  • @OldSchoolLad I love you

  • how do I get a dvd copy of this video please?

  • Wernher von Braun gave so much to the humanity. Too bad that 98 % of the people on the earth don't realize it.

  • The space belongs to the Russians; it was they who said man can travel to space first (Tsiolkovsky), it was they who PUT a man into space first (Gagarin) and it was they who placed almost all other space records first. Even works of people like Goddard were heavily influenced by the countless of material produced by Tsiolkovsky.

  • @RodinaZovet your a retard, the space does not belong to the russians. they even signed a treaty in the 1970s that said space was for all of humanty to use.

  • American scientists did not originate the atomic bomb technology. German scientists developed the technology and tested the effects in January of 1945. Hitler decided that the weapon would tarnish his legacy so the project was abandoned. When Americans fell upon Germany they discovered the technological facilities and gave the German scientists lucrative contracts to build the atom bombs which the USA dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hitler never would have dropped atom bombs on human beings.

  • Wernher von Braun was great man for the human history. A great brain and a pioneer. Some says that he was Nazi and member of SS and he was a traitor. What you would do if you were in his shoes. I salute this great rocketeer and great man.

  • @vedsag Say no to his beloved boss Hitler and go in the resistance like a lot of German officers did. It's easy to say that he was forced to do the thing what he did. He loved it, he liked it to much to say no. And he was a nazi member, what do you think he was, a 100% democrate? He was a big friend of Hitler and the Gestapo screened him like all the others. And he was clean, not because he was forced, but because his mind and heart belongs to the party. Ever heared of his slavecamp DORA?

  • @tompouceful

    He was protected by Dornberger; he's the older guy on the left at the start of the video(something new I've learned). If anybody was nazy and in charge of those slave camps, it was Dornberger;

  • @vedsag he should of been tried as a war criminal. jewish slave labour built those rocket sites. he knew.

  • @vedsag I SHOULD RUN, LIKE HELL.

  • When was liquid fuel for rockets first used? I have read that it was used as early as the late 1800s by some Peruvian scientist.

  • " by some Peruvian scientist "....you're talking about PEDRO PAULET.

  • USA stolen from nazi germany atomic bomb and rocked man USA is shit country all brains from all around the world work for USA

  • Goddard was never good as Wernher von Braun.

    Well, von Braun rated the know-how of Goddard and he used it too, but he had lots of own ideas, which were better.

    It was absolutely necessary for the Americans to get von Braun into NASA bzw. Space-Project.

    Apollo, Saturn and so on = His babys !

  • Von Braun was a NAZI and a member of the SS.

  • This is probably the best documentary on Von Braun. It could have said more about the rocketry fad during the Weimar period.

  • If it hadn't been for the German Werner von Braun, the United States would never have won the race to the moon against the Soviets. Even though it might be hard for you to accept it as an American, it's a simple fact. So go cry because you illusion was destroyed

  • i am an american and i admire mr. brauen for his work. space is not a place for germans russians or americans but for humanity as a whole

  • @murdermachina45 I believe it's spelt Dr. von Braun. Unless you don't recognize German accreditation.

  • @murdermachina45 So,... all of you guys are a NAZI lovers?

    Wow,... that's just incredible !!!

    .... How blindly pathetic.

  • @murdermachina45

    Wernher von Braun:

    A former "High Ranking NAZI S.S. Officer" who never stood trial for his War Crimes but instead became the Darling of the Military Industrial Complex at the time,... von Braun's War Crimes be Damned.

    This explains precisely why Americans today are allowing their country be taken over by a

    "Fascist Global Banking Cartel",... also known as "The New World Order".

    So unfortunate but also oh so very preventable.

    Disney's propaganda was just that,.. "Propaganda" !

  • @Tiberiusduck= You people never quit. It's always the same junk. New Worl order this, new world order that. If I showed you a picture of me and Mickey Mouse, you would probably believe he's real. Stop blaming Lex luthor and the legion of Doom for the World's problems, and start blaming yourself and all your kind. I suppose the new world order is responsible for the theft of my ladder too eh?

  • @vigo894 You know, you're right, Nazi War Crimes mean absolutely nothing today in today's society and I guess morals really have no place in today's society either, any more,... right?!!

    You sir, are a soul with no redeeming qualities.

    You are brain dead.

  • @murdermachina45 The man has blood on his hands, around 3000 people

  • @murdermachina45 Say that again to my dead family, slaughtered by Mister von Braun's V2 in the second WW.

  • @tompouceful

    1) Werner Von Braun made the technology; he didn't point them; i can't believe I have to point this out.

    2) shall I go on an crusade against irrationalists and anti-science because christians tore up Hypatia alive. Actually . . . yes!

  • and it not for Sergey Korolev a Ukranian the Russians wouldn't have gotten anything bigger than a bag of sugar off the ground.

    It goes both ways.

  • @LeeroyFan101

    Korolev was not a Ukrainian. His father had some Ukrainian background but that is all.

  • @RodinaZovet

    Uh yeah he was, being born in Ukraine makes you Ukrainian.

    If you're British and you're born in the US are you British or American?

    Unless you're stupid the answer should be pretty obvious.

  • @LeeroyFan101

    I think you're the stupid one. Ukraine's modern borders were only drawn by administrative mappers during the 1970s inside the Soviet Union. That's why even today the majority of the population in Eastern Ukraine is ethnically Russian, especially in places like Sevastopol, Donetsk and even the capital. If a China man is born in Africa does that make him African? No. So if indeed a British person is born in the US he is still British.

  • @RodinaZovet

    Shows how much propaganda they teach there in post Soviet Russia, the Ukraine had existed for quite a while. The border issue is only because Russia invaded it and absorbed into the USSR and was too much a dick to give back their land after they collapsed.

    Africa is not a country its a continent, but regardless if you were born in Africa yes that would make you an African.

    Many Americans are ethnically German but aren't called German because we were born in the US making us American

  • @LeeroyFan101

    This will be my last argument because you're obviously an idiot. By your logic I can say Obama is Hawaiian. If you were born to two ethnic Germans in the US you are still a German, yet with American citizenship. But for the US it's a different story because you are all hybrid offsprings with who knows what ancestry. Regardless Ukraine, in history, was never an independent country which is even stupider to say when it was a republic. And when did I say Africa was a country?

  • @RodinaZovet

    Yeah Obama is a Hawaiian because he was born in Hawaii hence why he was able to become the president.

    Well here's the thing I wasn't talking about ethnicity you were, see like most people in the 21st century we identify people by nationality and not race or ethnicity only a backward racists people still identify people using race.

    So before Russia that place was just empty and when Russia came along land just materialized?

    Idiot.

    When did I say you did?

  • @RodinaZovet

    Funny that you call me an idiot when you don't even know proper history other that Soviet Propaganda and actually think Russia owns space lol what a retard.

  • @LeeroyFan101 thats what hyappens when you live in a communistic country they think there the best

  • @RodinaZovet in soviet russia you do not learn from propaganda. Propaganda learns from you!

  • Excuse me "davidblade15" but most flaws on human beings resumes don't usually include the willful participation in the murder and maiming of literally thousands of innocent men, women and children. Wernher Von Braun was nothing more than a NAZI MAGGOT, willing to do anything that would serve himself and his career regardless of who it hurt. Some hero indeed. Wernher Von Braun should have committed suicide. At least he could have faced his Creator with dignity instead of absolute disgrace.

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  • I mostly blame the United States and The Military Industrial Complex for the extraordinary treatment of Wernher Von Braun at the end of W.W. II. but the truth be told, all countries involved in the fighting in W.W. II are responsible also as these countries never spoke out about this travesty of injustice ordained by America. This will be a "Black Mark" that will forever haunt N.A.S.A. and the American space program. Be careful the Hero you worship my friends, It could be a Demon in disguise.

  • And it won't be the only one.

    After Japan's defeat and disarm, the USA, instead of putting Japanese war criminals to trial and execution, like they did at Nirenberg Trials, they took the most sickening ones of them (among which stood unit 731 and Kyushu University, which conducted the most sickeningly cruel medical/biological experiments on humans - both occupied nationals and allied POW's) and put them under their protection "to use their knowledge".

  • Liquid Fuel Rocket=American, Look up Goddard.

    V2= glorified COPY

    NASA owes nothing to Germany

    Von Braun was a fucking thief not a scientific hero. The real Hero was GODDARD THE INVENTOR OF THE LIQUID FUEL ROCKET.

  • Braun perhaps was practical man I suppose. Hitler was providing him funds, he died, then American did...Because of him mankind could send humans in space..

  • IVernher Von Braun's NAZI past will never be forgotten or forgiven by the innocent men, women and children who were ultimately killed and maimed for life because of Wernher Von Braun's "v" rockets. His life and career is a lasting legacy of self gratification with no moral boundaries . Boy, what a hero .... FROM HELL. !!! By the way if any of one think for one second that i am of the Jewish faith, ... well, I am not. I just hate actual History being distorted. Life is not a Disney film folks.

  • V2 parts found, North of Roswell, 1947, under the guidance of James Angleton news of an ad-hoc counter-intelligence story thought up by an officer as cover for one of the biggest secrets of that time... operation paperclip, cover : "saucers" (from a report in 46) ... the media & public took the bait, but it backfired, drew too much attention rather than divert it away, changed to 'balloon' two days later, today the myth of UFOs persist, technology or justice? illegal aliens and their spaceships?

  • (Part 1 / 2) ... Wernher Von Braun Crimes. Aiding and abetting in the murder of innocent men, women and children in Britain by NAZI V1 and V2 rockets because it certainly wasn't a case of soldiers fighting soldiers. In human terms the "V" weapons caused the deaths of 8,938 British civilians (6,184 by V1's and 2,754 by V2's) while 24,504 more people were seriously injured, (17,981 by V1's and 6,523 by V2's).

  • ( Part 2 / 2) ... In addition 2,917 British servicemen were killed by "V" weapons and 1,939 seriously injured. This NAZI didn't give a crap about where the rockets he worked on landed and how many innocent men, women and children were going to be killed or maimed for life. All he cared about was his career. My God, are people getting so apethetic that they just believe what they choose to believe regardless of history's stated facts? Just Incredible !!!

  • WOW !!! Judging by the amount of "NAZI" sympathizers out there, there's no wonder why the United States is on the verge of total takeover. You worshipers should read your history books for a change instead of just sucking up "Doctored History on T.V". This bastard was a goddamn NAZI S.S. OFFICER who never stood trial for his crimes. How many countless innocent men, women, and children were killed and maimed across Britain because of his "V" rockets. How in God's name can you forget his past?

  • so its the Americans fault he didn't stand trial is that what your saying ?

  • The greatest engineer ever. He and 130 other former nazi rocket engineers shout the americans to the moon. Without him and these great guys the soviets would have won the race to moon!

  • We tore them fu%$in Nazis a new one in `44.

  • Germany was being reduced to rubble by the Allied bombing offensive, the RAF deliberately targeted civilian populations and killed tens of thousands in giant firestorm raids. Why are some so astonished that the V2 was produced as a weapon which killed civilians in London? Von Braun was only a part of the entire program.

  • Werner von Braun was the greatest engineer of all times. The whole NASA Apollo-Program and even todays Space Missions are based on his work!

  • Absolutely! I just red a book by Werner, "First men to the Moon". It is interesting, and written in 1958 I think. Fun to read what was "wrong" and "right" predictions. I also red "A journey to the Moon", by Julies Verne. Written about 100 years before the flight of Apollo 11, it is amazing to see that he predicted many things that actually happened in 1969! Oh, the Universe, Space-stuff is so interesting.. :)

  • Haha, you are a joke man. You have no clue at all!

  • ur just in denial

  • U'r just a joke.

  • ur an imbecile

  • stop cry and embarrassing yourself.

    you americans invented other great things

  • LFR is an American invention. Nobody debates that except you apparently.

  • NASA Announces Request For Information On Von Braun Collection On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing, NASA is seeking ideas from the public, academia, and industry about how to analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.

  • Check out this video folks. Type "Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun". Tom Lehrer sings "The Werhner Von Braun Song." The song that haunted Werhner Von Braun through most of his life in the United States. Thank God somebody saw fit to immortalize Wernher von Braun's evil deeds as a Nazi in WWII.

  • It's not for us to judge you, that's Gods role exsclusively! Thank-you and rest in peace Dr. Von Braun

  • Von Braun is a intelligent man, but he was Nazis and racist worked for Hitler.

  • well, he claimed that he was not a nazi and that the only reason why he joined them was because he wanted to continue his experiments with rocket technology.

    During Nazi Germany WWII, resources were scarce and only the military had the capability to fund expensive projects such as rocket technology.

    If von braun could acquire the funding himself, i am sure that he would not have joined the nazi party. To him, the nazi party was nothing more then a way to get funding.

  • I agree. I hate when people say things like,"Why did America hire a NAZI to beat the RUSSIANS?" Passionate (perhaps desperate/broke) people will do anything to have their dream put into action. :-)

  • Well said!

    And I agree, people will do pretty much anything do pursue their dream.

  • America in the 1960's wasn't racist too ?

  • Real men never surrender. To kill yourself is to surrender to life, to be a coward. Besides, who are you? No one who as done nothing. Bid man on the net, less than a mouse in life.

  • I am ready to die for my beloved Finland and if called upon, to fight and die for my adopted United States of America. Are you...*looks at profile* Canadian? Nevermind.

  • Are you kidding. Canada declared war on the Nazi's after one week in Sept. 1939 before the Soviet Union was attacked and before the USA got into the war just before 1942 (German declared war in US). Canada was known at "The British shock troops" by the Germans and would try to match SS units against it while throwing scratch units against Americans if choosable.Blizkrieg expert Guderian cited Canadians with first using the rolling barrage and breakthrough/encircle with tanks in WW1.

  • you are right!

  • I hate arguing on here, but I must point out that your comments made you sound racist, ignorant, and pathetic, and your name isn't helping matters. So the dude has the instinct of self preservation. That means he's intelligent.

  • Agreed.

  • So turning yourself in to the enemy makes you intelligent, right? Alright. I am going to grow a fucking beard and turn myself in to Al Queda and drink goat piss. See you on September 11, 2012.

    Stupid cunt.

  • Seeing as you're too ignorant to comprehend, I'm done wasting my time on you.

  • Fine. Your opinions are doo doo to me anyway.

  • Von Braun is does is not in his intention, to kill lives. He was just so obsessed with his rockets. His contribution to the V2 was just incidental to his amibtion of launching human into space.

    it was realizes when he was in america.

    his dream of sending people to the moon was successful. When kennedy was killed, his ambitons crushed. Had succeeding presidents suported him, a man on mars could have been possible.

  • copy and past of from Blumbergs German 4/5 class. :]

  • wow i meant "paste". lol i suppose my english needs work.

  • sure germany sent V2 rockets and bombing raids into England

    but the the states carpet bombed Berlin for weeks near the end of the war. so what are Englands civilians more important

    than others,

  • these comments are all full of worthless political dialogue... & nothing scientific

  • Killing civilians is always a crime and for that considered as murdering, no mater if they live in city's, small villages or camps.

    There is NO difference in having extermination camps and droping bombs or rockets on city's where civilians live.

  • The history of space travel would be different if Robert Goddard had been as adept at promoting his ideas in the 1930s as von Braun was in the America of the 1950s? Braun and other scientists claimed they used Goddard

    ideas and were amazed America ignored Robert Goddard

  • IDIOT

  • U probably sad this for a joke, I know (and am not angry). But remember nazis were a murderers.

  • Right, the Nazis where murderers and all others didn't kill anyone.

    The history shows where the greatest murderers are at home.

    Vietnam, Korea and it does go on and on. Time for some country's to get real and face there war crimes they deny.

  • I was talking about WWII.

    And you know difference: to kill someone and to murder someone?

  • Nazis where murderers and the Axis forces which bombed and burned city's with civilians did just kill ?

    Let's get educated and stay with WW2.

    watch?v=QvLX96G-ucY

    watch?v=tIdsxWhmi0g

    watch?v=fWoNDxjOksM

    watch?v=xYQ88GB4zBA

    Just killing for you or also guilty of war crimes in WW2 like the Nazis ?

  • Yes, the Axis forces(without CCCP) didnt make an extermination camp.

  • Im mean Allies forces of course.

  • definition of perfect:having no flaws; wernher von braun.

  • he did have flaws, so does everyone in the world,

  • Very interesting, thanks.

  • Shall anyone show me a scientist who would never become a doctor Faustus.

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