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Originally posted by bsbray11
And what was the expertise of the Gestapo and SS veterans?
Definition of GESTAPO
: a secret-police organization employing underhanded and terrorist methods against persons suspected of disloyalty
Origin of GESTAPO
German, from Geheime Staatspolizei, literally, secret state police
First Known Use: 1934
Originally posted by bigbomb456
Notice how there is no talk about Mengele, Peron, Borman filling a check to chase-manhattan bank in 67, the activities of Skorzeny in Egypt, Ronald Richter and the Huemel Island project, the Vatican ratlines, or any of the "good" stuff.
Originally posted by TheWill
Oh, please tell me you don't believe that old trot about the nazis being the only ones who were "doing propoganda" during WWII?
Originally posted by whaaa
I thought this was common knowledge.
Intelligence and government officials faced a delicate moral quandary in 1945—whether it was worth it to give American homes to men who had invented weapons to kill American soldiers, men who in some cases subscribed to beliefs that hundreds of thousands Americans had died to eradicate. In the end they decided it was, if these men could help the United States defeat the Soviets.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Having observed your love of violence and unjust murder of others in other threads, I'm not surprised by your response.
Originally posted by bsbray11
This is how Merriam-Webster defines "Gestapo":
Originally posted by bsbray11
They were a police force. Not a military force. Anything they did with the Soviets was out of desperation, as their main priority during the war seemed to be making sure that millions of Jews and anyone else that stood in the Nazis' way.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Keep trying to glorify them. It speaks more for you than I care to.
Originally posted by bsbray11
I'm against propaganda in general. It's intentionally deceitful for military purposes.
Originally posted by bsbray11
Keep trying to glorify them. It speaks more for you than I care to.
Originally posted by zorgon
Gestapo = TSA
Originally posted by Doujutsu
NASA = NAZI
Originally posted by Doujutsu
Would US be a super-power today without the help from these war criminals?
I very much doubt it!
Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr[1] von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States during and after World War II. A one-time member of the Nazi party and a commissioned SS officer, von Braun would later be regarded as the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century in his role with the United States civilian space agency NASA.[2]
In his 20s and early 30s, von Braun was the central figure in Germany's pre-war rocket development programme, responsible for the design and realization of the deadly V-2 combat rocket during World War II. After the war, he and some of his rocket team were taken to the U.S. as part of the then-secret Operation Paperclip. In 1955, ten years after entering the country, von Braun became a naturalized U.S. citizen.
Von Braun worked on the US Army intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) program before his group was assimilated by NASA, under which he served as director of the newly-formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon.[3] According to one NASA source, he is "without doubt, the greatest rocket scientist in history. His crowning achievement ... was to lead the development of the Saturn V booster rocket that helped land the first men on the Moon in July 1969."[4] He received the 1975 National Medal of Science.
Originally posted by W3RLIED2
Nobody is glorifying Nazis. You asked what they brought to the table.
We answered your question.
Originally posted by jerico65
Originally posted by bsbray11
Keep trying to glorify them. It speaks more for you than I care to.
OK, High Speed. I want you to go back and pin-point exactly where I was glorifying the Nazis and Gestapo. Find the exact post and my exact words stating just that.
Or, you can go [snip] and offer an apology. Tho I doubt you will.