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Space research in the US started before the Germans joined, but it never worked... The US had to bring Germans to make the whole thing successful.

I think you mean, German Jews brought their innovations to the US because Germany tried to kill them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

but also, for balance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

Wernher von Braun, probably the most prominent German rocket scientist who was a pioneer of the US space program, was a Nazi.

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