Growing up Von Braun

[@RetroFan]

My 10th cousin, 3x removed. A great man and genius.

[@rainydaywoman5758]

He's my cousin also, on my mom's side. I discovered last year through Genealogy!

[@dirktyler3643]

Fascinating man.

[@FrankHampton-t7m]

Yes he was a genius. I wonder how much his children knew of what their father did during WW2. If they did know it was probably not discussed in the home

[@vengefulruby9592]

He was given a visa and welcomed with open arms. Still to this day the US see him and others as heroes. I imagine they openly discussed things and saluted often.

[@rinsedpie]

Simply a genius.. but more outstanding, are the people who recognized what a gem this guy was when Nazi Germany collapsed.

[@666MaRius9991]

Genius yes but also a terrible human.

[@rinsedpie]

@@666MaRius9991 i think he was more into rocketary, interplanetary travels and moon landing than he was into any ideology.

[@patrickcleroux5375]

Genius enough to forgive his crimes against humanity, if of course he was willing to commit these atrocities for the allies

[@rinsedpie]

@@patrickcleroux5375 i think he was more into the advancement of the technologies in his field.

[@vengefulruby9592]

​@@rinsedpiethere are photos of him smiling in the concentration camps that built his V2 bomb and took about 40k Jewish lives to build it. He was SS, there were no good SS.

[@jojo-qi7ru]

So what about the german years?

[@psjasker]

Perhaps the families of Jewish victims who were worked to death building her father’s designs deserve a mention?

[@EnockPowell]

Of course the money stolen from Jews to finance the V2 rocket program no doubt brought a smile to the Von Braun family

[@Nope_Nope_Nope_Nope_Nope]

Yes but per usual, everyone continues to do the same old revisionist denialism of his atrocious Nazi Schutzstaffel officer past like he was a magical “good Nazi.” If people are going to continue to keep that man’s name on buildings and celebrate his contributions to rocket science and NASA they must also not omit the rest of his past. It’s shameful.

[@JeffGR4]

Dr. Wernher von Braun was a great man!

[@nielsliefveld4099]

And a nazi

[@withlovefromkimberly]

He was a Nazi.

[@crabb9966]

Really?

[@soukainalaoui]

Freemazion

[@morganroberts8368]

Her parents were first cousins.

[@SwiftLikeASamurai]

Great stuff but we never did put men on the moon. Wernher knew this very well. On his gavestone wrote, Psalm 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork."

[@ynk-4372]

Too bad all the evidence says we did, VB would have a serious headache if he were around to know all these years later crazy people deny his life's work 😂😂

[@RetroFan]

That quote doesn't support what you're claiming.

[@gennerobootz6490]

I tbink people don’t understand how it was in Nazi German

[@vengefulruby9592]

I think people do understand how it was just idiots like yourselves don't understand the difference between Nazi Germany and the SS which he was a part of. There were no on the fence good guys in the SS.

[@SwiftLikeASamurai]

Von Brown*** hahahaha