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Originally Posted by Mr Mephisto
jrclark,
You're both right and wrong.
The V2 was, as you say, not an ICBM. The United States was never, EVER in danger from German rockets.
However, the US did not enter the war to help defeat Nazi Germany because it feared a strengthened Axis power in a conquered and consolidated Europe. It dis so because Hitler declared war on the United States. There is quite a bit of politics mixed up in all this, including an anti-war congress, pro-interventionist President, pro-isolationist public etc, but that's the general ghist of it.
Let me also just add one more comment. Even a victorious Nazi Germany was unable to mount an invasion of the United Kingdon, just 20 miles across the Channel, as 95% of all military historians agree and historical fact proves, do you really think they could attack the United States across the Atlantic Ocean?
Mr Mephisto
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Well, the really funny thing is that the the V-2 program was headed up by this one Nazi named Werhner Von Braun.
And boy did the Americans want to get their hands on him.
And he put the Americans on the moon in 20 some odd years.
I gotta believe that if this guy wanted to, he could have had an ICBM in a few years.
The really funny thing is that Hitler hated Von Braun, and once remarked that if he (Hitler) didn't need his brain, he would have shot him years ago. Even funnier is that Eisenhower apparently hated Von Braun (because Ike hated all Germans and nazi Germans even more so) and he (Ike) remarked that if he didn't need Von Braun so much, he would have shot him years ago.
True story.