At least the NASA hires were all “former” nazis, rather than actively practicing. (At least on paper, I’m not actively aware of anyone continuing to be terrible after jumping to the US.)
I don’t think it matters whether you’re labelled a Nazi or not, when the country that
hires youyou defect to puts the weapons of mass destruction you were helping to research to practical use.You’re assisting horrible people, one way or the other.The Nazis were most definitely planning on doing the same thing had they gotten the chance, mind you, but I cannot fathom one using the weapons of mass destruction that the evil of the world planned to use, on not one, but two cities containing mostly civilians, and then call oneself a “hero” or the “good guy”.
In some cases these scientists are why the Nazis didn’t get nukes because they were quietly sabotaging the program by pursuing known dead ends. Scientists in the US were actually baffled by the lack of progress, since German scientists were publishing good theoretical work.
There seems to be an inordinate amount of racism around the Huntsville Alabama area, and I can’t help but wonder if that’s partly due to the legacy of operation paperclip.
Yeah it’s called Alabama. No one should live there. It’s a terrible place.
I guess if we can’t find any examples of racism in Alabama before 1946 your theory may have legs.
