Not GR but interestingly related

[Mark Kohut]

Not only Slothrop disappeared......

A little unmystical reading and Von Braun on the afterlife and The Other
Side passim, have new resonances.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a point I've tried to make in connection with the list's recurring
> discussions of von Braun (and the broader public's re-discovery every
> decade or so that OMG There Was a Nazi in Our Spaceport):
>
> That in the insane moral/economic landscape of wartime Germany, slave
> labor was very widely used (and very widely abused, including summary
> executions for the most trivial causes or none at all) throughout civilian
> industry all over the Reich as well as in war production...
>
> That therefore tens of thousands of executives, professionals and managers
> -- both Party (even SS) members and not -- saw that every day and did
> nothing...
>
> And that postwar "de-Nazification" penalized -- let alone tried -- only
> the tiniest handful of those.
>
> All of which is to say that while there was brutal, bitter irony in von
> Braun's reincarnations as genial Dr. Space on Disney programs in the 1950s,
> and a leader in the race for ICBMs and then the Moon, there was nothing
> very uncommon either in his offenses nor in his escape from consequences.
> For all the recurring focus on the weapons-tech figures brought over by
> Operation Paperclip, they were far outnumbered by Germans who emigrated
> quietly on their own to Allied countries in the 1950s and 1960s, one by
> one, to pursue careers in construction or auto-making or vegetable canning
> which had earlier been entwined with horrors.
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> apropos for anyone sympathetic to VW's recent  recent payouts and layoffs
>>
>> Slave labour was an integral part of the Nazi war machine. Many
>> concentration camps were attached to dedicated factories where company
>> officials worked hand-in-hand with the SS officers overseeing the camps.
>>
>> http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34358783
>>
>
>
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