Merkel is a physicist. She's great.

But then again many physicists were also convinced Nazi officers.

> But then again many physicists were also convinced Nazi officers.

If the Germans would have won the war, we'd probably celebrate those officers :/ All the torture and killing would be spun as "necessary evil" (if it even came to light), and further investigations would be blocked by the government. How we perceive the past is...complicated.

you mean Heisenberg?

The name that springs to mind is von Braun.