Operation Paper Clip

I think it has been pretty much agreed upon that while Von Braun was a member of the Nazi Party... He did so out of necessity to protect both his life and his life's work in science. He was more a pure scientist who did whatever he needed to do to pursue his dream of sending rockets into space. Yes... Thousands died building them and thousands died when V2s rained down in England. It's called WAR. WWII was a good reason why we shouldn't have a WWIII! But people forget what it tasted like and then we have morons like Trump who never learned from history so they repeat the mistakes!

This is not news.
Anyone familiar with operation paper clip knows that the cream of Nazi scientists were divided up between the USA and USSR as spoils of war.
The makers of the V1 and V2 rockets, the fathers of the atomic bomb and those who would contribute to the design and building of stealth jet fighters and bombers were all former Nazis.
Like wise those sociologists and political scientists behind the founding of the EEC/Common market were also former Nazis, seen as less important they were left in Europe for the use of the French, British and Dutch.
The whole situation was parodied in Leonard Wibberley's novel "Mouse on the Moon" with "rocket scientists" being traded and defecting back and forth between the Americans, Russians and British, with "Germans" commanding a higher price than any other type.

The morally contentious matter, especially those concerning medical science, of separating the the discoveries from the discoverer and their politics has dogged the ethics of the academic mind for generations.
However unlike in medicine and the arts cold hard economics and pragmatics have held sway in the post war Capitalist economies when it came to matters of Physics and warfare.
To paraphrase Lennin "Rockets before ethics"