I found out he's responsible for Space Camp... Anyone who did something good for children's science education in this country earns some positive feelings from me. And yet his legacy is inherently ambiguous.
As an American Jew... I also have an odd respect for his never pretending to be sorrier than he was.
I don't believe in classifying a person as all evil, or all good, but addressing their individual actions with condemnation or praise. Wernher von Braun deserves some of both.
Damn, that last sentence can be read two ways - an accident! I meant that the worst abdicate to God or State what ought to be their human responsibility.
If the Nazi's had "the best education" then why their superiority delusion? If they had "the best technologies" then why did they dismiss Einstein's relativity as "Jewish physics" - and only realized how wrong they were too late to catch up? Nazis were ahead in one area: the inhumanities.
Everyone has a little Hitler inside them; the best people admit as much and don't let him out. The worst abdicate their human responsibility to God or State and are thereby capable of hellish deeds.
guys I know u have good n bad opinions but if u didnt met that man u cant tell that hes a criminal or a hero! That is the opinion of the pub not u guys
What a naivefull opinion, shame on you, That man was the greatest man in our (i mean man kind) modern history. Istand of you and peaple like you who remember only what peaple done bad some cares what that man could be done to another man.
Good riddens to a "NAZI S.S. OFFICER". That bastard never got the "Nuremberg Trial" or the subsequent "Nuremberg Military Tribunal" he should have gotten at The end of W.W. II. He should have been swinging from a rope for his crimes. Good riddens to "Fascist Trash" I'd say.
Im thankful for von brown, he got us to the moon. He could most accuratly be described as an obsessed man, so obsessed he'd make a deal with the devil in order to explore space.
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
Von Braun was a scientist foremost.what would you have done without nazi techology and german in general..I'm disgusted how this frustrated jew mocks him
Von Braun was a sociopath and moral idiot who would work for absolutely anybody who would finance him. He's a villain straight out of "Dr. No". That was the point of Lehrer's song, and you *definitely* don't disprove it with your anti-semitic tag line about a "frustrated jew" writing this very funny song. One last point: I'm of German ancestry, and people like you make me ashamed to admit it.
Not the American populations fault but those running the show in America. Problem comes when the american population can't face the facts..it's as embaressing as its disrespectful.
Pretty good: but just for a bit of constructive criticism, von Braun was in charge of the US Army's rockets. At 00:56, you use footage of a US Navy Vanguard rocket, a project von Braun opposed and had nothing to do with. Other than that, nice video.
We shot you on the moon (Wernher von Braun...), without german rocket-technology you would still try to get there with a propeller(!)-aircraft. Didn't you learn this in school ? Keep calm and try to understand this video.
Heh. Like the krauts invented rocketry (BTW, I'm of German ancestry, so I get to use the word "kraut"). Google the names Tsiolkovsky and Goddard some time, moron.
I found out he's responsible for Space Camp... Anyone who did something good for children's science education in this country earns some positive feelings from me. And yet his legacy is inherently ambiguous.
As an American Jew... I also have an odd respect for his never pretending to be sorrier than he was.
I don't believe in classifying a person as all evil, or all good, but addressing their individual actions with condemnation or praise. Wernher von Braun deserves some of both.
thechaosfairy 2 months ago
Damn, that last sentence can be read two ways - an accident! I meant that the worst abdicate to God or State what ought to be their human responsibility.
leifharmsen 1 year ago
If the Nazi's had "the best education" then why their superiority delusion? If they had "the best technologies" then why did they dismiss Einstein's relativity as "Jewish physics" - and only realized how wrong they were too late to catch up? Nazis were ahead in one area: the inhumanities.
Everyone has a little Hitler inside them; the best people admit as much and don't let him out. The worst abdicate their human responsibility to God or State and are thereby capable of hellish deeds.
leifharmsen 1 year ago
guys I know u have good n bad opinions but if u didnt met that man u cant tell that hes a criminal or a hero! That is the opinion of the pub not u guys
mihaelmartinovic 1 year ago
What a naivefull opinion, shame on you, That man was the greatest man in our (i mean man kind) modern history. Istand of you and peaple like you who remember only what peaple done bad some cares what that man could be done to another man.
Ironek250 2 years ago
Good riddens to a "NAZI S.S. OFFICER". That bastard never got the "Nuremberg Trial" or the subsequent "Nuremberg Military Tribunal" he should have gotten at The end of W.W. II. He should have been swinging from a rope for his crimes. Good riddens to "Fascist Trash" I'd say.
Tiberiusduck 2 years ago
@Tiberiusduck Reichs ministry orderd and choosed which jews will be exported to Mittlebau-Dora not Wehrer von Braun!
mihaelmartinovic 1 year ago
Im thankful for von brown, he got us to the moon. He could most accuratly be described as an obsessed man, so obsessed he'd make a deal with the devil in order to explore space.
ferdmert 3 years ago
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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
starview1 3 years ago
Von Braun was a scientist foremost.what would you have done without nazi techology and german in general..I'm disgusted how this frustrated jew mocks him
SagaraGunso 4 years ago
Von Braun was a sociopath and moral idiot who would work for absolutely anybody who would finance him. He's a villain straight out of "Dr. No". That was the point of Lehrer's song, and you *definitely* don't disprove it with your anti-semitic tag line about a "frustrated jew" writing this very funny song. One last point: I'm of German ancestry, and people like you make me ashamed to admit it.
willibro151 4 years ago 4
@SagaraGunso wow true.... like them or not the NAZI's had the best education and technologies.
gvsfgdf 1 year ago
Not the American populations fault but those running the show in America. Problem comes when the american population can't face the facts..it's as embaressing as its disrespectful.
wallenz 4 years ago
Visit the french museum "La coupole" near Saint-Omer (north). It is dedicated to the V1, V2 and spacial experiences.
Manuman59 4 years ago
Werner is good Nazi of Hitler
vdsc2007 4 years ago 3
whos the singer
ChonKrispyLA 4 years ago
Pretty good: but just for a bit of constructive criticism, von Braun was in charge of the US Army's rockets. At 00:56, you use footage of a US Navy Vanguard rocket, a project von Braun opposed and had nothing to do with. Other than that, nice video.
WhiteJarrah 4 years ago 3
We shot you on the moon (Wernher von Braun...), without german rocket-technology you would still try to get there with a propeller(!)-aircraft. Didn't you learn this in school ? Keep calm and try to understand this video.
Cre7tiv 4 years ago
Haha, nice. That is exactly the reason why I made this, so my classmates would understand.
MahdiFarGai 4 years ago
Heh. Like the krauts invented rocketry (BTW, I'm of German ancestry, so I get to use the word "kraut"). Google the names Tsiolkovsky and Goddard some time, moron.
willibro151 4 years ago
SPUTNIK without Wernher ?
PAULLONDEN 4 years ago
Great song. It was hilarious!
Andy120290 4 years ago 2
I like your video of von Braun and this song best~
sweetpeamelody 4 years ago
Damn shit!
freezzer2006 4 years ago