So you don't really need evil rich bastards to actually do something we all dream about here. All you really need are unscrupulous single minded fanatics who don't care who is enslaved or dies as long as they get to indulge their adolescent fantasies.

For Hitler, rocket artillery was just a desperate attempt to win the war on the cheap, but for von Braun, everything human and decent was subordinated to his pathetic fantasy of playing spaceman. If the Axis had won the war he would just have willingly continued working for them. And if the Russians had gotten to him first, he would just as willingly worked for them.

Yeah, I love space travel too, but there are prices I am not willing to pay. The purpose of technology is to serve Man, not the other way round.