This needs the massive IN THE USA disclaimer slapped over it. Sure, doctors are massively overworked everywhere, but if you're supporting the NHS then you get people banging pots and pans for you, which I'm sure makes it all worthwhile.
I didn't know about that bit, just had a read up on his wiki page under the "slave labour" section.
Von Braun later stated that he was aware of the treatment of prisoners, but felt helpless to change the situation. When asked if von Braun could have protested against the brutal treatment of the slave laborers, von Braun team member Konrad Dannenberg (a member of the Nazi party since 1932) told The Huntsville Times: "If he had done it, in my opinion, he would have been shot on the spot."
Fucked up situation to be in. I'm sure we all think we'd do the right thing but I imagine having your life on the line affects what you do quite a lot. Like all historical figures, not all black and white.
It's weird how some people will rightly accept that the masses in America are being oppressed but refuse to accept that anyone was oppressed under the Soviet Union. I can only assume it's because they live in the USA and only see one thing happening and can't possibly accept that two global superpowers could both be doing bad things rather than a nice simple goodies vs baddies.
Sure they are comrade, I'm sure the millions that starved or were executed under Stalin don't really matter either. Or was that all propaganda and everyone actually had a lovely time?
Imagine being such an edgelord that you need the little rush of wishing death on bad people. Reform society, take their assets, stop them from ever hurting people again, whatever. Actually fix the problem like a rational human, don't solve it by calling for their deaths you fucking caveman.
You'd probably get more people on side if you didn't use a logo that everyone associates with mass-murder and oppression. This is like having "cool kids have the right to freedom" slapped on a big USA flag, or "cool kids bring civilisation to the needy" on a sigil of the Roman Empire.
"My parents didn't pay through the nose for me to study my own culture at a prestigious foreign university for them to say things that go against the party line. I didn't come here to learn, I came here for networking and a door-opening piece of paper!"
This needs the massive IN THE USA disclaimer slapped over it. Sure, doctors are massively overworked everywhere, but if you're supporting the NHS then you get people banging pots and pans for you, which I'm sure makes it all worthwhile.