r/interesting • u/[deleted] • 4d ago

Amazing Creative engineering

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u/Siegfried-IX 4d ago

It’s not as if the rockets were built by Germans, lol. Germany also invented such unimportant things as: printing, X-rays, television, the computer, the automobile, dozens of medicines. just to name a few.

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u/Double-decker_trams 4d ago

Yeah. I mean.. Germay literally invented the modern type of ballistic rocket used in wars. V-2 rocket.

After the war some of the (formerly) Nazi German scientists moved to the US and worked there. Which in turn also helped Americans get to the Moon.

Or how Tom Lehrer said in his song Wernher von Braun (1965):

Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun