alt Hacker NewsInitially received funding, later in the war they turned it off as "not war worthy"
You might be surprised how many UK and US scientists of that time supported eugenics, see for example https://nautil.us/how-eugenics-shaped-statistics-238014
and as for computers and atrocities, see IBM's history from the time or perhaps some more recent tech companies.
Few of us are saints.
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Eugenic is still widely supported even today, it is in university textbooks and on t-shirts! Simone de Beauvoir and her "future is female" plan to reduce male population by 90%. World Economic Forum plans to reduce world population to 350 millions...
Konrad Zuse worked for nazis to develop weapons. I would leave it there.
Edit: it was Sally Miller Gearhart, not Simone de Beauvoir
You'll find that the computing pioneers we celebrate by name are largely detached from the examples you mentioned.