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by groby_b 3679 days ago
Sure. Granted, they killed a whole bunch of people for e.g. the medical advancements. And the advancements are at least of dubious value[1].

And other advancements were... not as impressive as elsewhere. See e.g. nuclear science.

But the upside of science under a dictatorship is that you will publish lots of papers claiming successes, for personal health reasons, so you've got that going for you.

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199005173222006
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ramgorur 3679 days ago
Warnher-von-Braun (and co.), who brought the fledgling "nazi space science" from the post-war Germany to the US.

if we follow the time-lines of the space exploration of NASA after 1960 and before 1960, his contributions are conspicuously evident.

Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_%28rocket_family%29

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samdoidge 3678 days ago
> And other advancements were... not as impressive as elsewhere.

This applies in the case of nuclear, but not in others: jet engine, rocketry.

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