personally I think ww2 is a meme, one datapoint out of the entirety of natural history, but funnily enough scott aaranson used it to justify his anti orthognality stance recently (axis scientists were mid tier compared to allies scientists partially because the allies were perceived as better morally aligned with the scientific community)

one point he made aside from that though, is that if you truly believe in orthogonality you should not value education or learning except to educate people who agree/are aligned with you.

I think he is wrong only in that orthogonality is even more obviously wrong than that.