vBraun quote

[Gillies, Lindsay]

Several absolutely...and all of them with a nasty edge.
re 1: funny how moral scruples set in (in a number of highlevel cases) once 
the war seemed lost (e.g., including the military assassination attempts).
re 2: you are probably right.  I will try to get numbers, its an interesting 
if depressing point.  certainly I would have prefered to perish in a V2 
attack (even thinking about the millimoment when, due to the whimsy of 
Poisson distributions, the very point of the rocket might have been directly 
against my cranium) than as a wretch in Dora.
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From: Paul Mackin
If we know our TRP, won't we just naturally expect him to plant _several_
meanings at a strategic point in the book?

A number of colateral points come to mind in connection with the war, the
rocket, and the quote.

1.  Through vBraun is not known to have been disturbed much with the use of
slave labor, he was, like the quote indicates, a man of some religious
feeling. He later claimed that his last meeting with Hitler had
disillusioned him. H. was "suddenly revealed to me as an irreligious man,
a man who did not have to answer to a higher power . . . He was completely
unscrupulous."

2. Because of the use of said slave labor, more Germans than Brits died as a
result of the rocket program. (Don't have the stats at my fingertips but
think this is true.)