[aduty]

He only cared about sending rockets up. Where they came down was other people's problem.

[dekhn]

I always laughed at that line from Lehrer, but Von Braun absolutely cared about where his rockets came down.

[ternus]

That's not his department.

[mulmen]

He was also totally ok with slave labor. He was a voluntary Nazi party insider and SS member. He deliberately chose to participate in Hitler’s totalitarian regime to advance his own goals. This kind of behavior should be remembered and condemned.

He was a brilliant designer, engineer, and project leader but he is an extremely problematic person for the methods he was comfortable using to achieve his goals.

[zorked]

The message you replied to is a reference to an anti-von Braun song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro

[foobarian]

Seems isomorphic to today's slave-driving death-marching CEOs that we celebrate so much. In a past time they would be right up there on the podium

[spankibalt]

> He only cared about sending rockets up.

Which extended also how exactly those rockets were produced... and by whom.

EDIT: Yeah, I get it, the Zwangsarbeiter from the camps building the rockets are not very conductive to the carefully whitewashed "hero technocrat" image certain "hackers" just love to invest in. :T