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Subject: [Leica] Re:was Riefenstahl now Disneys famous Nazi
From: DouglasMSharp at netscape.net (Douglas M. Sharp)
Date: Wed Aug 25 15:11:14 2004
References: <2867578BB7767E45B3C9E3CBA9C5A65F593ADF@smskpexmbx3.mskcc.root.mskcc.org>

W.v.B. was useful enough to have his Nazi idealism ignored. G?ring
thought he would be invaluable
to the allies - he was very wrong.

Interesting that the information gathered by putting Concentration Camp
prisoners in freezing water, or
low air pressure environments, to find the survival parameters for high
altitude or ditched pilots was snapped
up by the allies and formed the basis of survival equipment design after
WWII. Needless to say this was
destructive testing.
Douglas

Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics schrieb:

>Yes, that's correct.
>
>He probably wasn't any more or less of a Nazi then Leni, although slave 
>labor from Dora concentration camp was instrumental in building the 
>research facilities he administered.  
>
>
>The point is that a guy like Von Braun, an honorary SS member, can admit to 
>using slave labor and we don't seem to mind because his relationship to 
>genocidal maniacs was "complicated", while Leni admits a great admiration 
>for Hitler and no one can forgive her.  
>
>I guess love is the more heinous crime here.
>
>
>Chris Saganich
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org 
>[mailto:lug-bounces+saganicc=mskcc.org@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
>Douglas M. Sharp
>Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 5:20 PM
>To: Leica Users Group
>Subject: [Leica] Re:was Riefenstahl now Disneys famous Nazi
>
>Hi Chris,
>AFAIK it was Wernher von Braun who worked, shortly after his arrival in 
>the States, for a short time with Disney.
>I seem to remember having heard that he was also consulted on some 
>aspects of EPCOT too.
>Douglas
>
>Saganich, Christopher/Medical Physics schrieb:
>
>  
>
>>The US thought the Party was just swell in 1936.  In the town of Yapank, 
>>near were I grew up on Long Island, there was a whole section which named 
>>their streets after members of the party.  I don't believe there was a 
>>Riefenstahl Blvd.  After the war they renamed all the streets except one, 
>>German Ave.  
>>
>>Since were on the subject of film, some ranking party members worked 
>>closely with Walt Disney after the war.  Can you name which ones?
>>
>>Chris Saganich
>>
>>
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
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