I would probably not have been openly speaking out against the nazi’s in germany during the height of the war, but joining their ranks to advance my career is another point. Maybe I would if I was given the opportunity. Given his status as a rocketscientist, I can imagine that’s exactly the opportunity that Von Braun was offered.
Von Braun was also a nazi. Whether by concivtion or by opportunism isn’t sure.
“Once they go up who knows where they come down? ‘That’s not my department’ says Wernher von Braun.”
We should elect Tom Lehrer, I mean he’s only 96
Given the time and place, so too would you have been.
Read up on the Polish Blue Police.
I would probably not have been openly speaking out against the nazi’s in germany during the height of the war, but joining their ranks to advance my career is another point. Maybe I would if I was given the opportunity. Given his status as a rocketscientist, I can imagine that’s exactly the opportunity that Von Braun was offered.