gounion wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 3:46 pm
Not the kind of thing a pension plan should be owning. But, since Alabama is extremely Republican, I'm not surprised, I guess. And these papers are all going to have to follow the right-wing party line, eh?
Well, according to the Encyclopedia of Alabama, the CEO of Retirement Systems of Alabama, David Bronner, thought that bringing Mercedes-Benz to Alabama was as important as bringing Wernher von Braun to Huntsville.
Wernher von Braun.
Really?
I sure hope this article is simply just making an assertion like that out of whole cloth, because Werhner von Braun is one of the most notorious Nazis in the USA, ever.
David G. Bronner - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Bronner saw establishing MB in Alabama as essential to the state's future and compared the significance to German scientist Wernher von Braun coming to Huntsville to start the space industry after World War II.
This statement is unsourced, so Jesus God I sure hope not.
Werner von Braun - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Wernher von Braun (1912-1977) was a German-born rocket engineer who headed up the U.S. space program in Huntsville, Madison County. He led the team that developed the Jupiter C and then the Saturn V rockets that carried Americans into space and to the Moon. Von Braun's work in the United States was pioneering, but he was a controversial figure.
He had been instrumental in developing the V-2 missiles for Nazi Germany that were built with forced labor and used as terror weapons against civilian targets in London, England; Antwerp, Belgium; Paris, France, and other locales late in World War II. For this he was considered by many to be a war criminal. He was also a member of the Nazi Party and the Schustzstaffel (SS, which was the paramilitary arm of the Nazi Party); historians largely believe that he joined those organizations out of expediency and was not a supporter of Nazi policies. His main goal, from childhood, had been to build rockets to take humans into space.
All of this probably has nothing to do with why this penny-annie paper from Oneonta, New York is publishing these kinds of deceptive, dishonest op-eds. So, nevermind.