LAST EDITED ON Sep-26-15 AT 02:02 PM (EDT)
 
>>i have hesitated to comment on this because, by my way of thinking you
>>opened that can early on in story and either do not recognize it or
>>well there are any number of reasons i guess.
>
>... I did? Hmm. I guess I don't recognize it.
>
>>in a way the decision
>>not to tackle retconning some of the big names of the nazi regime is a
>>bit disappointing in light of the alt already used but it is
>>understandable. the person you did retcon in is the 'least offensive'
>>by western standards because he became a hero over here, idol to
>>millions and inspiration to generations. at one point myself included.
>
>I can't for the life of me figure out who you're talking about here.
>The only original witch character I've mentioned in Our Witches at
>War that I can think of right now who had any connection to Nazi
>Germany is Heinrikke Knoke, and frankly, if I had remembered the last
>chapter of I Flew for the Führer when I wrote that episode I'd
>have found somebody else. I had clean forgotten, at the time,
>that although a fine aviator and the author of a gripping memoir,
>Heinz Knoke was also an unrepentant Nazi who ended that memoir with a
>rant in which he chided the Western democracies for removing
>civilization's only defense against Bolshevism and predicted that
>They'd Be Sorry.* (As such, I'm going to assume he's not the one you
>meant, since I don't know a ton about German politics at the moment,
>but I can't really see that guy as an idol to millions. Besides, he
>wasn't a Big Name in the Regime by any stretch.)
>
>Now, Erich Hartmann might fit that description, but a) he
>wasn't part of the inner circle either and b) I didn't adapt him,
>Erica's one of the original stars of the show. So presumably he's not
>who you mean either. As such... yeah. I'm missing something here.
>Please elaborate, because now you've got me thinking I may have
>stepped in a gopher hole without noticing.
>
>--G.
>*Admittedly, there is precedent in canon. Hans Ulrich
>Rudel was similarly unreconstructed, a National Socialist to the last,
>and the witch based on him is a prominent character in the original
>Strike Witches novels - the ones Ursula Hartmann is
>from.
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i chose not to name the person because, as i said, he became a major hero stateside and history has whitewashed some of the things he was party to to preserve the image. thinking back on it i realize it was actually in the New Tricks story but as that is part of the continuum i tend to lump them all together as OWAW. if i am completely off the mark and there is another person of historical note then i withdraw my statement entirely but it seems unlikely there is another von braun to template the von braun sisters from.

i was hestitant to comment on this because while the image he(von braun) produced while working here was rather sparkly and other appropriate adjectives there is a lot of lesser publicized information that illustrates how he comported himself at Peenemunde and little of it is good.