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frohyesterday at 6:46 PM1 replyview on HN

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


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fookeryesterday at 6:57 PM

Where 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.