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I'd say that modern rocketry was invented by the Nazis.
I disagree.
Modern rocketry was invented by Tsiolkovsky (theory) + Goddard (liquid fuel) + Obert (engineering), only one of which was a nazi.
During WW2, nazis used slave labor to develop and industrialize rocketry, but they didn't achieve anything. At most, they accelerated its development. Their rockets had training wheels, metaphorically speaking.
Post WW2, the nazi rocket program became the backbone of the US space program, and the USSR heavily based its own rockets on nazi rockets, but it's the work of Zander (pre-WW2) and Korolev (pre-WW2 and post-WW2) that got rockets and then humans into space. Unlike the USA's space program, Korolev refused to integrate nazi scientists in his operations, only brought some to help reconstruct V2s then sent them away. His team quickly surpassed german designs, the R-7 that got Sputnik to space was an entirely soviet design that had nothing in common with the V2.
The Nazis still built the first functioning rocket weapon and the first manmade object in space.
Chinese warfare had included rockets for centuries.
Americans and soviets had militarized rockets before WW2 (for ex. Katyusha on Wikipedia).
Define being in space.
The V2 barely grazed the edge of space, it didn't have the power to actually escape the Earth's gravitational péll.
Sputnik is the first object to actually be in space.
You should be wary that nazi glazing has effects. Thanks to their lasting propaganda, people really believe they were a high tech empire that surpassed the rest of the world in every domain, triumph of the will style. Still to this day it helps fascism's image as the "clean high tech" way that surpasses the rest in the mind of too many people. Don't contribute to that for a simple gotcha. Even if you're right, it's not worth it.