Otherwise known as the spiciest meme on my hard drive.
I don’t think Warner was ever head of NASA.
This is the best I can find
Accordingly, von Braun became director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would propel Americans to the Moon. Von Braun also became one of the most prominent spokesmen of space exploration in the United States during the 1950s
Adolf Heusinger was a German career military man since 1915 - well before the Nazis came to power, and considering Germany went through multiple power transfers in his time I kind of believe he was under the impression it was just yet another regime taking control and carried on with his business. He was later put on trial as an accomplice to a plot to assassinate Hitler and served West Germany before joining NATO’s Military Committee for 3 years. He wasn’t their Chief of Staff, that’s for certain.
I’m not into defending Nazis but there is so much more nuance than this meme is depicting.
That’s still a quite high position, so while yes, you’ve got a very good point. His still stands :D
The Nazis defeated the Nazis, just as Hitler killed WWII’s villain, Hitler! It’s all a big circle!
He didn’t kill himself in a vacuum. He did it because the soviets were coming to kick his ass.
That’s because he was a honorable man. Captain always goes down with the ship o/
/s because there’s always someone taking it seriously
Hallstein was a member of several nominally Nazi professional organizations, but he was not a member of the Nazi Party or of the SA. He is reputed to have rejected Nazi ideology and to have kept his distance from the Nazis. There was opposition from Nazi officials to his proposed appointment, in 1941, as professor of law at the University of Frankfurt, but the academics pushed through his candidacy, and he soon advanced to become dean of the faculty.
Hallstein began his academic career in the 1920s Weimar Republic and became Germany’s youngest law professor in 1930, at the age of 29. During World War II he served as a First Lieutenant in the German Army in France. Captured by American troops in 1944, he spent the rest of the war in a prisoner-of-war camp in the United States, where he organised a “camp university” for his fellow soldiers.
I don’t see how he is a Nazi
Being an officer, aka a well informed and educated volunteer soldier, especially when he was a fucking lawyer, in the Nazi army is generally a pretty big sign that you know what’s going on in your nation and are down to get some Lebensraum and tooth gold.
And the rest retired to Argentina
That’s not actually true. Yes some went to Argentina but it’s nowhere near the mass immigration people make it out to be.
US: “yes let’s give all these Nazis jobs so then those pesky Russians don’t get them”
The Soviets got more experts, but they didn’t put them in charge. Well, not as often.
Yes, excellent! There are a few missing agents, I’ve compiled a list to help you!
Hugo Schmeisser - arms designer, developed the first successful assault rifle, StG 44.
Karl-Hermann Geib - physical chemist who, in 1943, developed the Girdler sulfide process which is regarded as the most cost-effective process for producing heavy water.
Erich Apel - former rocket engineer at the Peenemünde Army Research Center, worked in the V-2 rocket program with Wernher von Braun. Apel later became a high-ranking East German party official and minister.
Helmut Gröttrup - engineer and rocket scientist, worked in the V-2 rocket program. Invented the smart card in 1967.
Brunolf Baade - aeronautical engineer and former Nazi party member, led the development of the East German Baade 152, the first jet airliner to be developed in Germany.
Ferdinand Brandner - aerospace designer and former SS Standartenführer (colonel), played a major role in the development of the
Kuznetsov NK-12 turboprop engine used on Tupolev Tu-95 bombers.
Hans Wocke - airplane designer, former chief developer at Junkers Aircraft and Motor Works.
Siegfried Günter - aircraft designer responsible for the world’s first rocket-powered and turbojet airframes, father of the “thrust modulation theory”.
Friedrich Asinger - chemist and former Nazi party member well known for his development of a multi-component reaction, the Asinger reaction for the synthesis of 3-thiazolines.
Alfred Rieche - chemist who discovered the Rieche formylation, a type of formylation reaction.
Fritz Karl Preikschat - electrical and telecommunications engineer, invented an improved dot matrix printing teletypewriter.
