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Originally Posted by Tubejunke
Um, sorry, I never implied that Von Braun and his cohorts spent their days designing a futuristic television set at the Peenemunde laboratories as part of Hitler's final solution. However, it is a matter of fact that television was in fact ONE of the things that scientist were working with at those labs. One must consider how new the idea of television was at the time. I am sure that plenty of military heads were scratched in wonder of what possible application that television could play from a military standpoint.
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Tubejunke,
Not to get into a political discussion here.
I'm sure you're correct that scientists in Germany were aware of television's future military potential. However the Nazi government was far more interested in promoting the propaganda aspects of this new medium and made that clear during televised broadcasts of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
-Steve D.