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Konrad Zuse. Yes, i admire this man. Before Z3, there was the first computer he built, all mechanical, and he did so just before the war broke out. His creation was destroyed by the Allied bombing, so he rebuilt it.

Not sure how much Nazi funding would've played a role in the Z3, however, but I will have to check the history on that. I know he mentioned something about it, almost apologetically. In so many words, he did not have too many alternatives at the time. And a man's gotta eat, and so...

Just like the Nazi rocket scientists who went on to build rockets in the US, it's the work that mattered. Wherever you can get the funding, off you go. Not excusing it, but it's reality. It's a thing, I think, you and I may have been tempted to do if under the same circumstances.

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