Japan: We have medical knowledge from... experiments, and we'll forever be your economic bitch!
At least von braun and his ilk contributed to science. The same cannot be said for the japanese war criminals behind unit 731, 1855 etc. they were let off scot free for the results of their fucking evil, psychopathic, sadistic GARBAGE “science”/“experimentation” 99% of which had no debatable value whatsoever.
And yet there are still plenty of people online who will defend Japan and say that the US shouldn't have ended the war as quickly as possible. Reading about what Unit 731 did makes the concentration camps seem humane in comparison, and I don't say that lightly. Even today, Japan refuses to acknowledge the crimes against humanity that their soldiers committed.
Japan refuses to acknowledge fucking anything. They call pearl harbor “the great accident/mistake” — they are taught that they HAD to attack the US because we were being hostile and cut off their access to oil, what they don’t teach is WHY we did that. Including all the atrocities they committed in their invasion of china and indonesia.
It’s incredibly frustrating how we’ve just allowed them to brush the whole war under the proverbial rug. Their nationalistic revisions to their text books paint them as victims when in reality they were fucking monsters.
Germany admits their wrongs and thoroughly educates every student about them, which is part of the reason why nobody resents or holds present-day germans accountable for the Nazi’s actions. Japan’s unwillingness to do the same is wrong.
This is a reference to Operation Paperclip, if anyone is curious.
Actually, none of the scientists were found guilty of a crime. (And several of them were investigated.)
But what are we going to do with all these pitchforks if we listen to reason?
Let's go to the old mill anyway, get some cider.
You actually believe that? The people who claim that people like Werner von Braun didn't commit any crimes are the CIA and Braun himself. All of the records from Germany were destroyed. It's essentially just taking his word on it to believe he was only involved because "he had to be."
He was literally a member of the SS, the wing of the nazi government that was directly responsible for the Holocaust. He was photographed repeatedly with himmler himself, in uniform. He claimed that those were just ceremonial photos that he had to participate in the keep his career. He also claimed not to agree with the Nazis politically.
Why would you believe anything that a member of the SS said? Especially one as important to the Nazis as von Braun was.
Of fucking course he was never found guilty of any war crimes, the US was actively trying to recruit him. They didn't want to prosecute their newest asset, a man who directly led to the US becoming the globally dominant force it became during the space race. He was useful so the US government deliberately didn't investigate him seriously, took him at his word that he totally wasn't a real nazi, and then used him to invent more rockets for them.
What war crimes would German military scientists have been executed for anyway? Out of all the Nazi's tried, only 11 were actually executed by the IMT, and thsse were the top, top brass of the party. The Mossad might have tracked down and killed a few more in the decades following, but that was way after the time that this meme references.
