Unfortunately, I could not find it free but it was worth the $20 I paid to watch on Amazon Prime. It’s about a Nazi family living adjacent to a concentration camp and like you the entire time I’m watching the moving I’m on the internet verifying information.
A couple points, starting with a revelation that never crossed my mind until your words, but perhaps known to more knowledgeable history buffs about this: Is the reason Huntsville, Alabama became the rocket research hub it is, because of fostering aid and comfort to the Nazi rocket scientists, in the Heart of segregated American South? Because of engineering, and physics, Florida is a high value location for rocket launches, but Alabama?
I never wondered why Alabama until reading your words. Over and above: spreading Cold War military largesse to more than one location.
IDK, this may be an obvious connection I just never happened to come across over the years.
Second thought though, vis à vis Nazi views about humans and America; it hasn’t broken through fully, but it is getting more difficult to overlook, how AMERICAN views, and ‘research’ about eugenics in the early 20th Century fed, and were welcomed into European science, culture, and even Nazi views and programs. We didn’t create the Nazi machine, but American ideas then did oil and were happily utilized by the Nazi program and with encouragement and approval by a segment of American culture in those days.
“I am using Google to fact check in real time—😂.“ This is so me!!😆
I haven’t read Caste but saw Origins - the Nazis at NASA and in Germany absolutely mimicked human subjugation and enslavement from America’s colonizing slavers..
Good piece. Would be interesting to know if there was any cross-collaboration between the early black pioneers and NASA and these two. On question of hypocrisy, could it be considered as paying their penance for their crimes by helping a freedom-loving country (for most, I guess) win the space race? Considering the options of the time, it would be to either let them go somewhere else (ala current immigration issues), make use of their skills (like when our immigration and university system works), trial and conviction (like Nuremburg), or dispose of them after use (like the Nazis). This is a good class discussion type issue because moral equivalency can get rocky. I notice in the picture with the Presidents, there is also McNamara, who some would have liked to have put on trial for Vietnam war crimes, so..... We try and learn from history so we don't repeat it or get into these types of conundrums.
It's more the land of opportunism than opportunity
You should watch the movie “Zone of Interest”
Unfortunately, I could not find it free but it was worth the $20 I paid to watch on Amazon Prime. It’s about a Nazi family living adjacent to a concentration camp and like you the entire time I’m watching the moving I’m on the internet verifying information.
A couple points, starting with a revelation that never crossed my mind until your words, but perhaps known to more knowledgeable history buffs about this: Is the reason Huntsville, Alabama became the rocket research hub it is, because of fostering aid and comfort to the Nazi rocket scientists, in the Heart of segregated American South? Because of engineering, and physics, Florida is a high value location for rocket launches, but Alabama?
I never wondered why Alabama until reading your words. Over and above: spreading Cold War military largesse to more than one location.
IDK, this may be an obvious connection I just never happened to come across over the years.
Second thought though, vis à vis Nazi views about humans and America; it hasn’t broken through fully, but it is getting more difficult to overlook, how AMERICAN views, and ‘research’ about eugenics in the early 20th Century fed, and were welcomed into European science, culture, and even Nazi views and programs. We didn’t create the Nazi machine, but American ideas then did oil and were happily utilized by the Nazi program and with encouragement and approval by a segment of American culture in those days.
“I am using Google to fact check in real time—😂.“ This is so me!!😆
I haven’t read Caste but saw Origins - the Nazis at NASA and in Germany absolutely mimicked human subjugation and enslavement from America’s colonizing slavers..
Good piece. Would be interesting to know if there was any cross-collaboration between the early black pioneers and NASA and these two. On question of hypocrisy, could it be considered as paying their penance for their crimes by helping a freedom-loving country (for most, I guess) win the space race? Considering the options of the time, it would be to either let them go somewhere else (ala current immigration issues), make use of their skills (like when our immigration and university system works), trial and conviction (like Nuremburg), or dispose of them after use (like the Nazis). This is a good class discussion type issue because moral equivalency can get rocky. I notice in the picture with the Presidents, there is also McNamara, who some would have liked to have put on trial for Vietnam war crimes, so..... We try and learn from history so we don't repeat it or get into these types of conundrums.