2. Wernher Von Braun
Wernher Von Braun symbolises how despite morals, a nation much suit one's self. A member of the Nazi party - though he claimed it was in order to continue his work in rocket science - and a leading German Rocket Scientist, Von Braun was a key member of a team of Nazi scientists who were tasked with developing rocket technology for Germany during WWII. As Allies advanced on Germany from the East and the West, Von Braun and his colleagues had to decide who to surrender to. Like many Germans, Von Braun was terrified by the Soviet's treatment of their captives. Moreover he believed that he had a moral obligation to surrender to the side that he believed he could trust with his nuclear weaponry. Therefore Von Braun surrendered to the Americans. Von Braun was a key capture for the Americans and was thus transported to the United States so that he could work in their nuclear weapons department. Over the subsequent thirty or so years until his death in 1977, Von Braun played an important role in developing nuclear weaponry as part of the arms race against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In 1955 Von Braun even became a naturalised citizen of the United States. The case of Von Braun illustrates that despite US condemnation of the Nazi Party, they were willing to put their beliefs and convictions to one side to utilise one of the Party's finest scientific minds to their benefit. Whether that is right or wrong is another issue.