6of6:Wernher von Braun

Wernher von Braun (19121977)
Von Braun is well known as the leader of what has been called the rocket team which developed the V2 ballistic missile for the Nazis during World War II.
The V2s were manufactured at a forced labor factory called Mittelwerk.
Scholars are still reassessing his role in these controversial activities"
http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html

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[aselagamage]

inspirational

[julianhood]

Thanks!

[TheSpiritof1969]

@mobius1aic

I understand your arguement by where does it end? Exactly the same defence could be made for the commander at Belson. It started as a internment camp and see how it turned out. Brawn put over this idea that he was an engineer through and through but he did not have to preside over cruel punishments. He had no humanity and showed no sign of concern for the six people who died for every missile he made.

[mobius1aic]

@TheSpiritof1969 Regardless of what he may or may not have done, what would you have done if you were in his shoes? Don't tell me the "right thing" when the right thing is drastically skewed in the position he was in. For all I know, I'm sure his focus was his rocketry regardless of the atrocities that went on around him, and even still had he meant no harm to anyone it probably would've meant a bultet in his head for not cooperating with the Nazi party.

[TheSpiritof1969]

@Galnadar

How can you call him an inspiration?? He looked the other way while about 30,000 slave workers died in his factory. He personally selected many of them at Auschwitz death camp. He personally was involved in many of the sadistic beatings at the factory. He personally ordered the hanging of many of the victims too weak to work.

Don't take my word for it. research him yourself. That arrogant shit should have been hung by his balls in 1945.

[Galnadar]

I loved all of these videos they helped me with my report on Apollo 1 surprisingly and they had brought a new inspirational figure to my life.

[themollusc]

Ahead of his time.

[dcb1138]

My hero