I'm not too good with history like this.
Meme needing explanationNasa recruited Nazi scientists like Wernher von Braun to work for them after the war.
Operation paperclip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
The designs the V2 rocket was built on were originally supposed to be for space exploration. I'm glad that at least the designs were eventually put to good use again.
They may have eventually been used for space exploration, but the whole point of headhunting Von Braun in particular was to make our military ballistic missiles better.
Hell, the whole point of the space race was Russia and the US going "our rockets are powerful enough to reach the moon. You see how fucked you're gonna be if we strap a nuke to the front of it and launch it at your national capitals instead?"
Yeah. But it also had that big military budget backing. The space race was the best side product that came from the cold war. There's no way we'd be at this point technology wise without it. And even some of the tech developed then is still in use.
Sadly funding for NASA now is pennies compared to what it was then. Advancements in that department is now mostly down to private companies like Space X and Blue Origin.
Honestly, I'd rather have it be government funded with the caveat that the technology is also being used for warfare than privatized corporations doing it in the name of profit.
Yeah, Elon's plans for a mars colony sounded pretty bad for the people. Don't think I want to even look it up again. But I'm glad it's being done at least...
Oh god could you imagine having him writing your colony’s constitution? The ‘libertarian’ ideals mixed with his ego-centric cult basking sounds like a recipe for a horrifically short stay on Mars.
Too bad NASA didn't exist until 1958.
1958 was after the war
True. But a bigger problem is that ducks don't wear pajamas.
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Nazi scientists got a big ol' slap on the wrist and went on to work secretly for the us goverment and nasa
Tom Leher wrote a song about it.
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"Secretly". They were officially contracted employees of the United States government using their regular names and identities.
We also covered up the human experimentation performed by Japan in WWII
America granted immunity to the men involved with the experiments and in exchange we got the data they collected
Although to be fair the Americans weren't aware of how fucked up things were until they finished the deal
Unfortunately, we also didn’t know how completely useless their “experiments” were until after we made the deal. The Nazi rocket program, while Nazi, at least followed the scientific method and ended up doing something useful. Unit 731 basically learned that if you stab someone, and leave them for a week and a half, they’ll die.
That's a fair point
Our data from 731 was pretty much 'it takes this long to die of frostbite'
Still kind of shows what people are willing to pardon in order to come out with the coolest new toy in the end
Fun fact, the Soviets did the same.
Yeah, fun fact, nobody likes that about the soviets either
- This cartoon is Disney's Der Fuher's Face, which imagines Donald Duck waking up in Nazi Germany, forced to make artillery shells. The scene shown is Donald waking up from his nightmare.
- Post WW2, Nazi Scientists were recruited by America, via Operation Paperclip. Perhaps the most well known person was Wernher von Braun, who worked with NASA and was responsible for the rockets used in the Apollo program. He also did a series of films with Walt Disney to sell the idea of space travel to the masses. - (Full Video)
- Note: Russia also had their own Operation Paperclip known as Operation Osoaviakhim.
Von Braun engineered the Nazi's V2 rockets and oversaw production. The production used slave labor from concentration camps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelwerk
The CIA kept their files on Von Braun's involvement with Mittelwerk secret for decades. Like until 2001 or so?
They kept a lot of files secret until 1999-2001 when they released a lot of old OSS (Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the CIA) and CIA files that were about the Second World War.
The Nazi scientist who built the v2 rockets that fell on London is the same man who got us to the moon. Werner von Braun, Walt Disney even worked with him to create a sort of PR video. Operation paperclip snatched up tons of scientists after WWII and relocated them to Huntsville Alabama to work for NASA. NASA was literally built by ex Nazis. Alot of the scientists were forced to work for the Nazis, but probably not all of them. The worst of the worst faced trial but the ones we got (I think like 130) were shielded from it.
Operation Paperclip brought Nazi scientists to the US, and fun fact: many ended up working for NASA
Apparently a lot of nazi engineers were hired by NASA after the war. Not sure how true this is though, I just know it's something people say
Wernher von Braun was a NASA scientist and Nazi war criminal.
The US weren't the only ones, most of the allied forces took in Nazi's that could benefit them.
The eastern block took a bunch too with Operation Osoaviakhim
Meanwhile the Soviets did the right thing.
The Soviets did the same thing America did, recruit Nazis. What are you talking about?
They executed Nazis.
Look up Operation Osoaviakhim. It's the Soviet version of Operation Paperclip, the American Nazi recruitment program. They kept the Nazis they thought were useful.
The soviets executed tens of thousands of Nazis after WW2. Meanwhile the Nuremberg trials executed... 12?
They also kept 2500+ Nazis, so I'm not sure what your point is.
Unlike with Operation Paperclip, the Nazi scientists captured by the Red Army were treated like criminals. They weren’t given the option of staying in Germany, let alone employment contracts. Instead, Moscow considered their work on behalf of the Soviet Union to be war reparations.
The point is the Soviets did the right thing.
Why does this have so many upvotes? It 100% happened.
Omg sorry for not knowing what the US was up to after WW2 we were too busy with our own military dictatorship
This has to be taught in school. Just like all of the nazi crimes, lest we forget the atrocities and they happen again.
it's true.
Boomers: "Today's cartoons are dark"
Cartoons in the 40s...
Today's cartoons have nothing on cartoons from the 40s-50s. Watch shows like Tom and Jerry, old school Looney Tunes and these Disney shorts and its full of people getting stabbed, maimed, saluting Hitler, racist humor etc. Those would be TV-MA today.
Back when cartoons weren't woke garbage where we treat everyone equally 🤢
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I remember one where Yosemite Sam (I think) literally got killed, went to Hell, and did a deal with the Devil to be sent back on condition he killed Bugs Bunny for him. (Spoiler: he failed. Repeatedly).
I also remember one that ended with Sam and Bugs attempting suicide by playing Russian Roulette. (Sam went first, revolver clicked, and he passed it to Bugs. Screen went black, gun fired, and visuals appeared again, to show that Bugs had somehow missed and hit Sam).
A lot of the people who worked for the Cold War rocket and bomb programs (later NASA) were ex-Nazi scientists given a pass by the US government.
America hired a bunch of ex-Nazis to work for them after WWII. So like Donald Duck, they woke up thinking they still had to salute Hitler but they didnt.
Nobody has mentioned that many Nazi scientists didn’t want to be Nazi scientists in the first place. Some of them played a very dangerous game during the war by impeding Nazi weapon technology. There is a good chance the Nazis could have finished their own nuclear project with these acts of resistance.
Unfun fact: more people died from making V-2 rockets than from having them aimed at them.
America brought over a lot of Nazi scientists after WW2- that's the general concept.
Google operation paper clip. I'm lazy, that should explain everything.
germany had some scientists during WW2. After WW2 nasa hired some of them and in return the scientist would not get in trouble. The joke is that the nasa employee was one of these scientists
Donald Duck? Why were you so disappointed when you realized it wasn’t the Nazi salute? I think you need to do some explaining
Was the status of liberty still this copper at the time?
It's copper to this day
In the end days of World War II the United States and the USSR were supposed to take any Nazi scientists they captured and move them to The Hague for crimes against humanity trials. Instead they would review the Nazi scientist in question’s research, compare it to their alleged crimes, and if the results were tolerable they would tell The Hague that the scientist was killed during the capture and move them to their respective research facilities instead.
They were called Operation Paperclip and Projekt E4 respectively. A lot of the ones we grabbed ended up working for NASA.
google Operation Paperclip.
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Bro Google it or use ur brain, I just saw this meme for the first time ever and I get it, I had no idea until now about that because I have basic human cognitive function
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I don't give a shit tbh having 2 reddit accounts is the most loser shit ever
Donald forgot what side of the pond he was on. CLASSIC DISNEY
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