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minus-squareShinkanTrain@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61arrow-down2·1 month ago“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department”, says Wernher Von Braun.
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·1 month agoDon’t say that he’s hypocritical Say rather that he’s apolitical
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-21 month agoMaking rockets wasn’t his department either. The US wouldn’t let Von Braun go testify at Dachau. To this day there’s a lot of whitewashing. But he knew how those rockets were made. Arthur Rudolph’s crimes were so egregious, that after letting him build the Saturn 5, we decided to ask him firmly to leave the country. In 1984.
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That’s not my department”, says Wernher Von Braun.
Don’t say that he’s hypocritical
Say rather that he’s apolitical
Making rockets wasn’t his department either.
The US wouldn’t let Von Braun go testify at Dachau. To this day there’s a lot of whitewashing. But he knew how those rockets were made.
Arthur Rudolph’s crimes were so egregious, that after letting him build the Saturn 5, we decided to ask him firmly to leave the country. In 1984.