SS prison guard in America
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Reading news today that a 94 yr old former SS Nazi prison guard has been found living in the US and it came to light after his records were found on a ship that had sunk but since re floated.
What surprised me is that Germany are still paying his pension. Now I know that he would have been a young man and went where he was sent but he will no doubt face questions and possible punishment when the US send him back to Germany.
Leaves me wondering that if Germany is paying his and no doubt others pensions then they must have some record of where they were stationed and what they were doing throughout the war or were these type of records destroyed so that all anyone knew was that they served but not where?
What surprised me is that Germany are still paying his pension. Now I know that he would have been a young man and went where he was sent but he will no doubt face questions and possible punishment when the US send him back to Germany.
Leaves me wondering that if Germany is paying his and no doubt others pensions then they must have some record of where they were stationed and what they were doing throughout the war or were these type of records destroyed so that all anyone knew was that they served but not where?
Fatball said:
TheRainMaker said:
Google operation paper clip.
Seems that if they have a use then previous history if okay. 0ddball said:
Fatball said:
TheRainMaker said:
Google operation paper clip.
Seems that if they have a use then previous history if okay. 0ddball said:
Disgusting isn't it! It's something that will always tarnish the US, and specifically their space program achievements for me. Built on the death and suffering of millions.
Not just their space programme. In fact, the space programme probably relied less on German technology that some other areas, such as aviation or medicine.The space programme, especially the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama stands out because it became high profile and its leader, Werner Von Braun, was a chap who courted the media.
You see the complexities with the Ivan the terrible trial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(T...
Obviously with this guy it’s easier to establish identity but it seems unlikely he’d face trial at his age.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_(T...
Obviously with this guy it’s easier to establish identity but it seems unlikely he’d face trial at his age.
Eric Mc said:
0ddball said:
Disgusting isn't it! It's something that will always tarnish the US, and specifically their space program achievements for me. Built on the death and suffering of millions.
Not just their space programme. In fact, the space programme probably relied less on German technology that some other areas, such as aviation or medicine.The space programme, especially the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama stands out because it became high profile and its leader, Werner Von Braun, was a chap who courted the media.
El stovey said:
Eric Mc said:
0ddball said:
Disgusting isn't it! It's something that will always tarnish the US, and specifically their space program achievements for me. Built on the death and suffering of millions.
Not just their space programme. In fact, the space programme probably relied less on German technology that some other areas, such as aviation or medicine.The space programme, especially the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama stands out because it became high profile and its leader, Werner Von Braun, was a chap who courted the media.
The US had been running its own rocket programmes since the early 1920s and were in a very good position to absorb what they could from the Germans in 1945.
The main contribution made by the German scientists was the Redstone/Jupiter/Saturn programmes initiated by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency under the auspices of Von Braun and his fellow Germans. These were army programmes which eventually were transferred to NASA and became important once NASA set its sights on the moon.
Throughout the period 1940 right through to the present day, the Navy, Air Force and other Department of Defense agencies and civilian organisations have maintained their own separate programmes independent of each other.
In the 1950s, the Navy and Air Force maintained their own completely independent missile programmes that borrowed virtually nothing from German technology. It was these programmes that gave us Thor, Delta, Atlas and Titan boosters which became the workhorses of the various military and space programmes of the 50s,60s ,70s and 80s. Indeed, Atlas and Delta in highly developed forms, are still in use to this very day, .
Wills2 said:
There is no misconception that Nazi scientists like Von Braun played a major roll in the US space program because they did.
Given large parts of the wehrmacht were given shiny new uniforms to start the bundeswehr its not surprising.'In the early months of 1951, public declarations from Dwight D. Eisenhower and other American military brass followed, outlining 'a real difference between the German soldier and Hitler and his criminal group.'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiederbewaffnung
El stovey said:
Eric Mc said:
0ddball said:
Disgusting isn't it! It's something that will always tarnish the US, and specifically their space program achievements for me. Built on the death and suffering of millions.
Not just their space programme. In fact, the space programme probably relied less on German technology that some other areas, such as aviation or medicine.The space programme, especially the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama stands out because it became high profile and its leader, Werner Von Braun, was a chap who courted the media.
0ddball said:
Fatball said:
TheRainMaker said:
Google operation paper clip.
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