Thread: What's in a name? New Championship Divisions
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Re: What's in a name? New Championship Divisions
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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday View Post
I'm sure FIRST would love to name a division after a Nazi SS officer who used enslaved concentration camp internees as labor for a project designed to kill people. I hope you're joking when you say he has a great legacy.

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/chapters/mittel.html
He also developed the V-2 rocket, the forerunner of all modern rockets. Under him, the Nazis were the first to have the capability to reach outer space. Later, he was in charge of the NASA team that created the Saturn V rocket. He was the progenitor of rocket science. Compare to Newton, who executed counterfeiters, or Archimedes, who developed a number of pretty brutal war machines. History is written by the victors, right?
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