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I'm not sure I understand what you were going to say. I was assuming "Wait, so you worked for the inventor of the computer?", but then you went on about race and I didn't get it anymore.


He was probably wondering whether the guy worked for the Nazis.


That's not really a question. He absolutely did work for the Nazis. The OP's point was that there wouldn't be much value in simply pointing that out (it's not like it would be news to Prof. Zuse).


What he was about to point out that while it is known that Zuse worked for the Nazis, by association his professor also did.

Awkward.


Yes. And realizing mid-sentence that he would have been a very young Hungarian at the time and it would have been a complicated and probably not fair to him question.




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