2- Given the way this subject matter sales books I would urge interested people to question all unbelievable claims in books particularly those written 60-70 years on with “new facts”.
Agree – there is an ongoing obsession with all things Nazi which tends to border on the unhealthy at times. They had an active scientific research effort in many areas but so did the Allies and we won. The German war effort was only maintained by the use of slave labour where human beings were treated as disposable parts of the process and the constant reinterpretation of the historical data has a wonderful tendency to gloss over the cost of the Nazi war effort imposed on any poor “Untermenschen” who had the misfortune because they were of the wrong religion, nationality or colour to be considered fit only for slave labour.
The Mittelwerk Dora set a whole new standard in the amount of institutionalised industrial cruelty. Yet out of all this there are people who still seem to find some twisted happiness and fulfilment in mythologising and salivating over the extent of Nazi technical advancement when the truth is that it mainly resulted in what one prescient wit so aptly called the knapkinwaffe. Von Braun and that lot should have been hanged – not given first class treatment in the Cold War. In fact I sometimes doubt if we would have had the Cold War if those *******s hadn’t been given the opportunity to continue their desire to prove the Nazi ideal.
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