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Wernher von Braun's Ambush (s1e2)

posted 3 years ago by YosenBMamma (1)
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Hi there,

I just recently started watching "For All Mankind", and I kind of got the feeling that whoever wrote the second episode doesn't seem to know a whole heck of a lot about Nazi Germani. Plus, they made Wernher von Braun into a regular wimp during the congressional meeting.

I would have liked to have seen some stronger dialog from van Braun during his interrogation. Perhaps something more like this:

"Mr. Sandman, you do not seem to understand that we are talking about Nazi Germany here."
"Yes, I knew the conditions for the people working on the V-2 rocket."
"And yes I did whatever insignificant measures I could to make things better for them."
"But the people working on the V-2 rocket were Jews from the concentration camps."
Do you know what would have happened to me if I had protested too much about the conditions at the plant? Hmm?
"They would have killed me. I would have been labeled a 'Jewish Sympathizer' and they would have killed me. And not in a pleasant manner, either."
"Do you understand that, Mr. Sandman? That my hands were tied?" Do you understand that, if I had tried any harder to stop the suffering, we would NOT be having this pleasant conversation right now?"

What do you people think? Please let me know in your responses.

Thanks so much,

Yosen B. Mamma

[–] brux (14729) 2 years ago

Werner Von Braun and most of the other Nazi scientists were right on with the Nazis. The American government and the CIA would have helped them practice a narrative that would justify giving them a home and job in America .... notably in the South ... Huntsville Alabama, a real s-hole.

By the way, your name is moronic.

[–] xergan (1067) 2 years ago

Braun made a nice tale of the good nazi, who couldnt do anything. Instead he was not just part of the Nazi machinery, but at best, you can say he was a reckless scientist, who did everything to fulfill his vision. Thus he was happy to use slaves and treat them like this. There is proof that he let the slave worker out in the wild while an allied attack was ongoing and clearing the mess (including not exploded bombs) was also their task. Beside of course that his beloved moon rocket was killing several 100 British people.
And no, he would have not been killed by the Nazis, there is no proof. It's more likely that he had been just deprioritized and had not achieved as much as he had been much more constrained by money and manpower. Soldiers who said something against shooting etc could expect not execution, but getting send to eastern front. Von Braun was no soldier and his skills as scientist had saved him from being part of the army. Even if, the eastern front was no fun place, but also no certain death. So every excuse "but they had shoot me" is just a pure lie to look better.
I can respect their decision to put their more comfortable life above foreigners, I wouldn't claim being better as them in their situation. But the lies after the war, I can't respect. Do it and stand to this decision.

[–] NukeDude (801) 10 months ago

It's an "alternate universe" created by possibilities. You're trying to justify one possibility. It's not factual.