Why are former SS Engineers and Scientists who worked for NASA still honored?
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That's not NASA's duty, and tbh it's not needed. All these people were heavily vetted and cleared of war crimes before being granted US citizenship and coming to work at NACA (later NASA).
They're not war criminals in the same way that your average German soldier returning from the front in 1945 was not a war criminal.
Did some do things they in hindsight probably weren't proud of during the war? No doubt. But then again so do most people who end up involved in armed conflict.
Not everyone who was an SS man was a lunatic mindless killing machine revelling in slaughtering innocent victims in the most gruesome ways. In fact most of them weren't, they were just normal people recruited in a massive machine of an organisation that provided them with jobs that were generally better paid, with better facilities, and less threat of ending up conscripted to the eastern front, than other opportunities. It was similar to taking a job at the CIA now, or at MIT or Berkeley university. All have done things that in hindsight weren't nice (including medical experiments on human beings...), but we're not calling for the public erasure of the achievements of anyone who worked there while those things were going on.
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