re: #485 Joshua Cohen

Other True Story: In November 1937 (other sources: December 1, 1932), von Braun joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP). An Office of Military Government, United States document dated April 23, 1947, states that von Braun joined the Waffen-SS (Schutzstaffel) horseback riding school in 1933, then the National Socialist Party on May 1, 1937, and became an officer in the Waffen-SS from May 1940 until the end of the war. On August 15, 1944, von Braun wrote a letter to Albin Sawatzki, manager of the V-2 production, admitting that he personally picked labor slaves from the Buchenwald concentration camp, who, he admitted 25 years later in an interview, had been in a “pitiful shape”.

Scratches head…mmm Josh.. I was talking about a good movie from the book Rocket boys.. Just so you know..I hate fucking Nazi’s! Where did the lecture on Von Braun come from? I wasn’t defending him…*wink* We good?