If you are posting on this thread your spouse and several of your best friends
have said this about you. :cool:

V2 as a weapon was a joke but as a stepping stone to the moon well that is different.

I read (or saw) somewhere that von Braun 'technically sabotaged' the V2 program, thus delaying it's deployment. IIRC he purposely was slow in solving the problems, until he was threatened with a firing squad. What choice could anyone have ?

If this is true then credit to him.

Anyone saying that he should have defected, is a bit naive. Goverments can be very efficient on deception and clamp downs. Just look to the west :D.
Hitler kept all his dirty work under wraps, and was seen as the 'German saviour' considering where Germany was and where it came from. Very few take notice of the warnings, preferring not to believe until it's too late.

:)

Read this book years ago, worth a read if you want to know more.

The Rocket and the Reich
Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era

By Michael J. Neufeld

Hit or missile?
 

One could say that Von Braun started the Cold War. His creation ultimately led to the ICBM.

As I recall, there is some controversy about that. Von Braun after the war downplayed his role, not unlike a lot of other former Nazis, but most of the historical evidence supports the thesis that he was a diligent supporter of the regime.

Yes, he was arrested by Himmler, but there was a lot of that going on in the final years as all the top Nazis were trying to expand their power base.