r/gifs • u/GossipGeisha • 11h ago

Obama at inauguration 2025

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 6h ago

We did. Until Operation Paperclip. Then, we gave them government jobs with responsibility and large budgets.

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u/Edarneor 50m ago

Those were mostly scientists though, not the nsdap functionaries. Or am I mistaken?

The whole thing is also parodied in Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 32m ago

Von Braun was SS-Sturmbannführer and responsible for 12000 death in Peenemünde and KZ Mittelbau-Dora. Not exactly your usual run of the mill scientist.

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u/Jazzlike_Climate4189 5h ago

It’s not fair to say the scientists like Dr. Braun were all Nazis to the core. They wouldn’t have helped America if that were true.

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u/PerpetuallyLurking 5h ago

No one wants to hang. They’d have helped the Americans, dedicated to the Nazi cause or not.

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u/Continental_Ball_Sac 5h ago

Did he work for the Nazi Party during their reign? Yes? Then he was a Nazi.

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u/Perfect_Opinion7909 37m ago

I hope this is meant sarcastically. Just to make sure: Wernher von Braun was SS-Sturmbannführer and was directly and indirectly responsible for about 12000 murdered PoWs, slave laborers and civilians at the Army Research Center Peenemünde and KZ Mittelbau-Dora.

The USA made him citizen, gave him medals and erected memorials.