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From: Jerome Clark <jkclark@frontiernet.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 98 12:36:57 PST
Fwd Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:51:53 -0500
Subject: Re: Oars, Sails, And Whatever Is 'Nazi Tech.'


>From: GT McCoy <gtmccoy@harborside.com>
>To: <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Oars, Sails, And Whatever Is 'Nazi Tech.'
>Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:19:05 -0800

>Willy Ley astonomer, rocketeer, Jew. Willy is one of the great
>men of the 20th Century, he also named the men of the German
>rocket Programs who were not Nazis or least rabid Nazis, the
>Russians got those who were more 'Nazified' and found out they
>(the Russians) were better off than they had imagined.


Hold on a minute.  I think you've lost me.  Whatever his
accomplishments (one of which, modest enough, was to be a hero
of my youth), Ley was hardly "one of the great men of the 20th
Century" (that title goes to the likes of Einstein, Freud,
Sakharov, Mandela, King, FDR, Churchill, and the like [or, on
the Dark Side of that equation, Stalin, Hitler, Mao]). Ley
certainly was not an astronomer, at least a professional one.
He was basically just another of us freelance writers, always
scraping for a buck and serving as living proof that the number
of writers who make a living wage is pretty damn small.

You don't mention his role as a pioneering cryptozoological
writer, author of several books on what he called "exotic
zoology" before anybody thought up the term "cryptozoology."
These important albeit flawed works are discussed by  Aaron M.
Bauer in Cryptozoology 9 (1990): 88-91.

I had not heard before that Ley was Jewish, which would not
matter at all if, of course, such things had not mattered
profoundly to Nazi murderers.  Are you sure of this? From what I
understand, Ley fled Germany not because he feared Hitler's
ethnic cleansing  but because he thought the Nazis might come
down on him for publishing rocketry articles outside Germany. If
you know better, I'd be happy to be corrected.

Jerry Clark