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to my understandung this strong "fascist" hypothesis is hypebole. he was member of a conservative student association, however those were prohibited by the Naz
by froh 16d ago
to my understandung this strong "fascist" hypothesis is hypebole. he was member of a conservative student association, however those were prohibited by the Nazis.
correct is that he was a conservative engineer who happened to be intelligent and live in that era, and who was lucky enough to work in his domain instead of dying a cannon fodder somewhere. did they build weapons? sure thing. does that make him a convinced fascist? certainly not.
he wasn't even member of the NSDAP party.
here is a short biography based off complete archive material:
Deutsche Biographie - Zuse, Konrad https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118637436.html https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/gnd118637436.html
- fooker 16d agoWhere did I mention he was a fascist or a nazi? There's a huge difference between "a conservative engineer who happened to be intelligent and live in that era" and leading a weapons lab attracting enormous amounts of funding, and fantasizing about how computing could be used to advance race science research.
- froh 15d ago> fantasizing about how computing could be used to advance race science research. mind to share sources to that part? that's saying "Nazi" btw.
- fooker 15d agohttps://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/a-701465.html https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/a-701465.html https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/der-erste-computer-der-welt-konrad-zuse-im-faustischen-pakt-mit-dem-nazi-teufel-334675 https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/article/der-erste-computer-d... > that's saying "Nazi" btw. No more than allowing chips on drones makes Nvidia/Intel VPs terrorists, but there's certainly culpability.