Von Braun was only a Nazi because he had to be. He was a BRILLIANT scientist.
Von Braun was only a Nazi because he had to be.
This second quote is especially baseless, he's just guessing.
There is *no* way to know for sure, and there is contradictory evidence. What I want to know is why you rocket scientists haven't figured out that 99% of Germans claimed to be anti-nazi after the war, which makes the denials farcical most of the time, except to suckers.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf who died last week, and Leni Reifenstahl who passed a couple of summers ago also claimed that they were only doing it for political expediency even with evidence that they were fanatics.