The real scientists weren’t all great folks either. I was hoping to just sit back and enjoy the cool animation but then the episode had to go ahead and ruin it by featuring Wernher von Braun:
I just watched the animated short Netflix documentary Camp Confidential: America’s Secret Nazis last week, which was pretty interesting. The guards at this secret camp in D.C. for high profile Nazi prisoners, such as scientists like von Braun, were mostly Jewish refugees who spoke good German. And then they had to be super nice to the prisoners because we wanted them to come work for us. The (now elderly) former guards that they interviewed in the documentary were not cool with this, but had to follow orders.
Man, I wish we could have built our space program without relying on effin’ Nazis.
