Well let's not do anything hasty
Well let's not do anything hasty
Well let's not do anything hasty
Promising a deal that includes citizenship, a house, a salary, and an administrative position to a Nazi scientist in exchange for their work and knowledge such that one's country can gain ground in a cold war is absolutely fine. It's absolutely totally fine.
Following through with the deal after getting the goods from the Nazi is not. Shoot the Nazi. You always shoot the Nazi.
Actually, none of the scientists were found guilty of a crime. (And several of them were investigated.)
You actually believe that? The people who claim that people like Werner von Braun didn't commit any crimes are the CIA and Braun himself. All of the records from Germany were destroyed. It's essentially just taking his word on it to believe he was only involved because "he had to be."
He was literally a member of the SS, the wing of the nazi government that was directly responsible for the Holocaust. He was photographed repeatedly with himmler himself, in uniform. He claimed that those were just ceremonial photos that he had to participate in the keep his career. He also claimed not to agree with the Nazis politically.
Why would you believe anything that a member of the SS said? Especially one as important to the Nazis as von Braun was.
Of fucking course he was never found guilty of any war crimes, the US was actively trying to recruit him. They didn't want to prosecute their newest asset, a man who directly led to the US becoming the globally dominant force it became during the space race. He was useful so the US government deliberately didn't investigate him seriously, took him at his word that he totally wasn't a real nazi, and then used him to invent more rockets for them.
This is a reference to Operation Paperclip, if anyone is curious.
Japan: We have medical knowledge from... experiments, and we'll forever be your economic bitch!
You might think that it's "experiments", but "medical knowledge" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence too, the US was predominantly interested in Japanese bioweapons research
Lemme guess, last word has been automatically censored ?
I’ll just test it by myself : removed