What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos

Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by tonyarkles on Sunday April 07, 2024 @07:46PM (#39964934)

Well... for curiosity-sake I clicked through the list of scientists on the Martians page. Every single one of them has Jewish ancestry. So while fascism more generally (right-wing nationalist authoritarianism) doesn't strictly prohibit intellectuals, World War II fascism alienated these folks because of their heritage.

There were still lots of smart people in Nazi Germany, as evidenced by Operation Paperclip which brought ~1,600 Nazi scientists over to the US to work on rockets and help the US fight the USSR in the Cold War and space race.

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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by hattmall on Monday April 08, 2024 @12:50AM (#39966302)

>Every single one of them has Jewish ancestry.

Well, yes, as that's the defining characteristic of the group and why they moved to the United States and became known as the martians.

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Re:What John von Neumann Did at Los Alamos by epolanski on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:40AM (#39967949)

Anti semitism is not a core or a common ingredient of what we historically define as fascist governments.

Spain under Franco and Portugal under Salazar did not persecute Jews, in fact allowed them safe passage from Vichy France.

Italy really turned antisemitic after more than a decade with the alliance with Germany to appease Hitler mostly. There's a nice book on the topic, in Italian, "Mussolini Razzista Riluttante" by Antonio Spinosa.

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