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Jeff Jackowski<p>A detailed look at the legacy of von Braun that doesn't gloss over anything. At the end, Amy Shira Teitel (presenter, historian) relates the morality of von Braun to what is seen today in large tech companies.<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDm1nz4wOE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=OEDm1nz4wO</span><span class="invisible">E</span></a><br><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vonBraun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vonBraun</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WernhervonBraun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WernhervonBraun</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>space</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/AmyShiraTeitel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmyShiraTeitel</span></a></p>
Víctor R. Ruiz<p>Wernher von Braun's HUGELY Controversial Legacy - The Vintage Space <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDm1nz4wOE" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=OEDm1nz4wOE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Cohetes y nazis. El controvertido legado de von Braun. Vídeo de la genial historiadora espacial Amy Shira Teitel. Una hora de duración (¡yupi!) así que me toca verlo a trocitos.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/espacio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>espacio</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vonbraun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vonbraun</span></a></p>
Eibriel<p>Never ever anything went wrong with a man making questionable alliances to get his rockets into space.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbi</span><span class="invisible">o</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/TomLehrer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TomLehrer</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/VonBraun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VonBraun</span></a></p>
Geriatric Gardener<p>“Is Elon Musk’s Entire Identity Shaped by a Strange Obsession With Nazi Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun? The Similarities Are Striking”</p><p>by Don Knight in The Midnight Manuscripts on Substack </p><p><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/donovanwashere/p/is-elon-musks-entire-identity-shaped?r=27oltk&amp;utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/donovanw</span><span class="invisible">ashere/p/is-elon-musks-entire-identity-shaped?r=27oltk&amp;utm_medium=ios</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Press</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VonBraun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VonBraun</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nazi</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RocketScientist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RocketScientist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ProjectMars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProjectMars</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Janik<p>“The impression one gets from these sanitized histories is that this was a man who had materialized out of nowhere, with no discernible past, like an astrophysical Mary Poppins who had come to teach the people of Huntsville how to make rockets.” </p><p>U.S. institutions have a long way to go in examining their relationship with pivotal figures of the Nazi war machine, such as Alfried <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Krupp" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Krupp</span></a> and Wernher <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/vonBraun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>vonBraun</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Erinnerungskultur" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Erinnerungskultur</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WW2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WW2</span></a> @histodons</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion/stanford-harvard-nasa-nazi-scientists.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2022/12/13/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/stanford-harvard-nasa-nazi-scientists.html</span></a></p>