If that is the right number, you are talking about aeronautical engineers and scientists. In the Third Reich, anyone of professional standing had to be a member of the Nazi party to even have a job. By no means did Party membership signify enthusiastic thralldom to the Party ideology. Most people simply expressed no views. This was true of the Peenemunde Team under Von Braun, who himself nearly was imprisoned for views deemed unpatriotic (i.e., that it was a good idea to think about how to go to the Moon).
If that is the right number, you are talking about aeronautical engineers and scientists. In the Third Reich, anyone of professional standing had to be a member of the Nazi party to even have a job. By no means did Party membership signify enthusiastic thralldom to the Party ideology. Most people simply expressed no views. This was true of the Peenemunde Team under Von Braun, who himself nearly was imprisoned for views deemed unpatriotic (i.e., that it was a good idea to think about how to go to the Moon).