Removed from the Hall of Fame

When I was researching the inductees to the Space Hall of Fame, I found out that of the 173 inductees, one, Hubertus Strughold, was actually removed by a unanimous vote in May of 2006. I was curious about why that was, and it turns out that he was a member of Operation Paperclip, and while the US Government had tried to cover up his war crimes, they eventually came out in the 1980s. Roughly 20 years later, he was removed from the Hall of Fame. To me, this seemed like a slow response, especially considering the heinous experiments that he conducted, which I will not write here for the sake of decorum.

I was next curious about where the line was drawn in regards to controversial scientists in the Hall of Fame, so I searched through the list of inductees to see if any other controversial Operation Paperclip scientists were still in the Hall of Fame. While nobody got close to Strughold, there were a few who were very involved with the V-2 rocket program, including Werner Von Braun himself. While he is controversial, I can at the very least understand why he is still there, while Strughold was removed, but when combined with the fact that it took 20 years to remove Strughold, I am somewhat suspicious about the hesitancy of the Hall of Fame, and the scientific community as a whole, to reevaluate and censure those who may have left a black mark on history.