NASA’s Dirty Little Secret: How Hitler’s Rocket Scientists Won the Space Race
When NASA launched America to the moon, they rode on the backs of Nazis. Operation Paperclip wasn’t just a few “reformed” Germans—it was a full-blown whitewash of Wernher von Braun and his SS crew, who built V-2 rockets using slave labor from concentration camps. 20,000+ prisoners died in Mittelbau-Dora making these weapons; von Braun picked launch sites near the crematoriums. Yet by 1958, this same man was directing NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, smiling on Disney TV specials about space exploration.
The U.S. didn’t just ignore their war crimes—they erased them. Files were “lost,” histories sanitized, and von Braun’s team got medals instead of trials. The moon landing’s shiny legacy? Built on Holocaust bones.
(Source: Slate - NASA’s Nazi Problem)
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