MokomaSusi (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

"He invented the space rockets, and so built our modern world."You give Werner von braun too much credit.

TomasuRikabe3 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Being amoral doesn't get you out of the situation. He had a responsibility to those people his technology ended up killing, and he failed to account for it. That's we he should not be honoured.

TomasuRikabe3 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

Werner von Braun was faced with a choice, give up his life work or become a nazi and allow many, many people to be killed with technology he developed. He made the wrong choice.

beutelkompost (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

yes, you're right about that. but I don't believe it.

Reeds8888 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

That doesn't mean he can't be a Nazi.

starview1 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

The history of space travel would be different if Robert Goddard had been as adept at promoting his ideas in the 1930s as von Braun was in the America of the 1950s? Braun and other scientists claimed they used Goddardideas and were amazed America ignored Robert Goddard

beutelkompost (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

I am opposed to Nazis but Wernher von Braun was no Nazi. He invented the space rockets, and so built our modern world. Moon landing, Space Shuttle, weather satellites, cell phones, even GPS...all inventions made possible by Wernher von Braun.

justwonderfulx (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

IDK. Wernher von Braun wanted, more than anything, to build rockets. He didn't care who it was for as long as he had the chance. That's the way I look at it. He is at fault for thousands of deaths, but we do owe him quite a lot of gratitude. Without him and his team of German scientists, we would not be NEAR as far as we are today in rocketry."The end justifies the means" MachiavelliHe was a genius, undoubtedly.That being said I love this song... haha... it's hilarious.

qwerty8192 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

No. To insult one person is to insult that one person. There is no reason for anyone else to feel insulted unless they share the specific quality insult is directed at. Ancestry is irrelvant in this context, to think otherwise is an example of collectivism.

CrimsonPhantom88 (December 31, 1969 at 6:59 pm)

It's just a joke.