Comments by "jim oberg" (@jimoberg3326) on "Joe Rogan | The Harsh Truths of Operation Paperclip (NASA u0026 Nazi's) w/Annie Jacobsen" video.

  1. Freeman Dyson and other historians have written persuasively that the net effect of the V-2 program was Germany collapsing six months or more sooner due to the crushing demand for high-tech equipment and rare hi-energy fuels, that if applied to more conventional weapons could have lengthened the war leading to millions more fatalities in Europe and tens of millions in the Pacific -- including inter alia my father and uncles. So be GRATEFUL the von Braun team diverted Hitler from far more effective weapons [Speer in his memoirs confirms this ‘mistake’]. I’ll take any such happy result, inadvertent or not – and we don’t have to forget the V-2’s victims in London and the slave cave factories. The non-existence of the V-2 wouldn’t have saved such losses, it would have multiplied them. Every V-2 built was a dozen fighter jets not built, a hundred anti-aircraft rockets not built, a squad of Tiger tanks not built. The cold-blooded calculus of casualties is morally complex. We should take every opportunity to express boundless admiration and gratitude for the workers in those slave workshops, whose names we will never know, but who saved many lives at the cost of their own by recognizing the criticality of the instruments they were building and then by developing hard-to-detect sabotage techniques that created a significant launch failure rate of the V-2 attacks.
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