Excuse me - the main V-2 R&D center (Peenemunde) was deep in Eastern portion of Germany. von Braun moved materials & documents to the Western parts of the Reich with the explicit intention of handing it over to god fearing people (Americans and British - those are his words not mine). It was no accident. He had no way of knowing how the Americans and British would treat him.
I asked clearly what did Von Braun do as a SS officer. you clearly had no interest in finding out. there is no proof that he was even remotely connected to the crimes of the SS.
Not sure why you are so personally offended. It isn't the first or last time USA has shown double standards. Deal with it.
It makes no difference which of the 3 arms of SS he was in. The point is he was exonerated of war crimes because of his value.
From Wikipedia:
"The 1947
Dora Trial convicted
SSOfficers and
concentration camp kapos, while 3 scientists of the
V-2 rocket program were implicated (2 after the trial) and exonerated of
Nazi war crimesat the Mittelwerk."
SS guards were charged. SS scientists were exonerated.
Von Braun's testimony about whether he witnessed abuses against camp prisoners at mittelwerk and mittelbaudora changed several times, from outright denial to admitting he saw abuses and did nothing. He also lied about meetings with himmler and wearing the SS uniform.
I have no problem with him doing that - he has to survive in the hands of the Americans by any means necessary....but why deny that he lied about his Nazi credentials and the Americans facilitated these lies as it was in their interests to whitewash him and use him.
"In Lichtblau’s
The Nazis Next Door, I learned how the CIA-Pentagon eagerly recruited “ten thousand
SS officers from top Third Reich policymakers, including sixteen hundred Nazi scientists and doctors with direct links to Nazi atrocities.” The Pentagon-CIA helped to "cleanse" their war records under the top secret document known as “Project Paperclip.” As Lichtblau explained, it was far easier to enter the US if you held SS Nazi credentials than if you were a victim of Hitler’s persecutions. The government provided thousands of the most heinous Nazi torturers and murderers “visas, houses, offices, and research assistance.” "
https://northamericanreview.org/ope...uited-u-s-cia-pentagon-wwii-jacqueline-marcus
There is plenty of evidence and testimony around of Nazi scientists in general and SPECIFICALLY the v2 engineers being involved in war crimes.
As per Smithsonian institute:
"While the military did what they could to whitewash the pasts of their “prisoners of peace,” as some of the scientists called themselves, many had serious skeletons in their closets. For example, Wernher von Braun was not just one of the brains behind the V-2 rocket program, but had intimate knowledge of what was going on in the concentration camps. Von Braun himself hand-picked people from horrific places, including
Buchenwald concentration camp, to work to the bone building his rockets, Jacobsen tells NPR."
SS guards were indicted over such things, yet these scientists were given visas to the USA.
The guy's own testimony about what he did and why is clearly compromised so I doubt the validity of this btw:
"von Braun moved materials & documents to the Western parts of the Reich with the explicit intention of handing it over to god fearing people (Americans and British - those are his words not mine)."
