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Old 12-26-2015, 09:20 AM  
spads
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Originally Posted by Rob View Post
Exactly!

There was a mad rush, or grab for Germany's brightest people, as well as all of their tech. One of the most notable was Wernher von Braun, creator of the V2 Rockets that terrorized Britain. Then came to the U.S. and is pretty much the founding father of NASA. The list goes on and on. Even the current U.S. military helmet is designed after the original SS helmets. The Germans were some fucked up people, but they had fucking style and they knew their shit.
Both the US and Soviet space programs were run on German innovation. At least their was some good that came out of that dictatorship. Name one thing that came out of the soviet Union that was positive. You can't because the only thing we learned from them is that communism doesn't work.
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