• KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    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.)

    • Ekky@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I don’t think it matters whether you’re labelled a Nazi or not, when the country that hires you you 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”.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        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.

    • DarkGamer@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      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.

      • 5in1k@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

        Yeah it’s called Alabama. No one should live there. It’s a terrible place.