Joseph
2010-08-21 13:53:47
“…was rewarded with his deportation by witch hunters….”
Huh? Von Braun wasn’t deported. He died in Virginia, an honored American citizen.
As for the witch hunters, well, they had some real witchery to hunt: his SS membership, his use of slave labor, his development of the V2 rockets that rained down on London. As Tom Lehrer so aptly sang:
Don’t say that he’s hypocritical
Say rather that he’s apolitical
“Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That’s not my department,” says Wernher von Braun
