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Friday, October 03, 2008
Today In History: Ad astra per nazis...
On this day in 1942 the human race took a great step along our road to the stars, as the first man-made object made it off the planet's surface and into space.
Yep. Wouldn't have made it to the moon except for Nazi scientists and unethical experimentation - including Rascher's vivisections of concentration camp inmates used in altitude and oxygen deprivation experiments. The Nazis didn't lose the war, they simply moved...
Ös göbt nöschts was ain töytscher Änschenör nöscht kann.
ReplyDeleteI.o.w.: Sufficient funding provided, Sänger would be reality.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Saenger
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Yep. Wouldn't have made it to the moon except for Nazi scientists and unethical experimentation - including Rascher's vivisections of concentration camp inmates used in altitude and oxygen deprivation experiments. The Nazis didn't lose the war, they simply moved...
ReplyDelete'Strangelove? That ain't no kind of Kraut name.'
ReplyDelete'He changed it when he became a citizen.'