Re: [Leica] kodachrome query

[Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>]

At 06:16 PM 8/24/1999 EDT, Don Rorschach wrote:
>According to Webster's "stealing" is defined as "to take away by force or 
>unjust means."  We were lucky enough to be the victor in Europe and "take by 
>force" that which we wanted.  We were also lucky to "steal" Von Braun after 
>the acquired considerable rocket technology based on the work Goddard, an 
>American, did in the 20's.

Don

There were no "unjust means" applied here.  The Germans lost the War, and
the Allies took as war reparations -- note:  REPARATIONS -- a slew of
unpatented, secret technology.  The committee which ran this was, oddly
enough, the Inter-Allied Committee on Optical Reparations.  It's chairman
was Doctor (and Colonel) Carl Nelson, who still lives in St George, Utah,
and is quite accessible.

Von Braun did not develop the work of Goddard and, in fact, knew nothing of
it until his own ideas were quite well advanced.  You probably should read
Willy Ley's ROCKETS, MISSILES, AND SPACE TRAVEL for details.  It might be a
good idea for you to consider getting your facts in order before you engage
in diarrhea of the keyboard.  

Similarly, German scientists played virtually no part in the development of
the Atomic Bomb.  Einstein remained outside the loop completely.  The
driving force was Fermi (Italian), Lawrence (American), Teller and Szilard
(Hungarians).  None were war refugees.  Neils Bohr was seized by the Allies
and taken from Denmark but, again, played no part in the A-Bomb project.

For that matter, the Germans did virtually no work on the development of
the Bomb.  See Speer's INSIDE THE THIRD REICH for discussion.

Facts, Don, facts, not your fertile imagination.

Marc

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