The Story of Wernher von Braun | Biopic

[@SvenPiper]

What is your opinion about Wernher von Braun?

[@Voyager_AU]

All he wanted was to get his rockets to space. The nazis wanted his rockets to kill. Thankfully, he fulfilled one of his dreams thus inspiring the future.

[@fftvable]

All he wanted was to get rockets to space. Even if that meant joining the SS and using slave labour from concentration camp inmates in order to build them. He was a great engineer, but morally lacking and hardly a role model for someone to follow.

[@jgunther3398]

@@fftvable all countries have done their immoral things. who we think of as morally superior depends on who wins the war and the propaganda and exploitation that follows. so the most intelligent thing is to leave morality out of the discussion sometimes

[@fftvable]

@@jgunther3398 I was not talking about a country, but an individual. I don't think you can ignore the dark side of his legacy and just whitewash everything. He was a complicated figure who led both German and US space programs and achieved great things, there's no denying that.

[@Chevette1793]

He was from SS. All the SS individuals were chosen based in their affinity with nazi ideology, which is basically nationalism with racialist mambo-jambo. The US nuked civilians. They're not so better... Maybe that's why they put racist war criminals in their ranks and 70 years after US citzens come up with this romantic fantasy about "he just want to go to the moon". It's the fantasy of the "good nazi". When the US army made a deal with japanese Unit 731's medics, was because they were good hearted fellas too?

[@pagalaatheist5107]

Great sir

[@doodlebob6397]

Never heard of him but since it s you presenting him to me I’m curious

[@therocketera]

From World of Engineering 😅🤩

[@Hennue]

The way you presented Christopher Lauers research into von Braun is pretty dishonest. IMO the argument he makes is pretty convincing. With such a bad and plagiarised thesis, horrible grades in all relevant technical disciplines and reports of his colleagues about his inability to bring about even the simplest design of a rocket engine, it is pretty clear that nepotism was the main reason he got into his position at Penemünde. Additionally, it is not even a secret that most of his work at NASA was concerned with managing and integrating the dozens of researchers that were brought to the US during operation papercut. So yeah I think the guy is right. The story of a genius scientist who didn't care about morals might be very appealing to people but it seems far from the truth when taking a closer look. If you want to make "educational" content you should maybe take an honest look into all sides of the argument especially when you might run danger of romanticising a literal nazi. Instead you just smear the researcher as some "guy with a degree in cultural studies" while putting out a video that has little merit considering you just retell the same story of a thousand other documentaries on the topic.

[@SvenPiper]

www.raketenspezialisten.de/ and then "Bachelorarbeit Christopher Lauer" on the left side.