I was eager to visit the museum at Peenemunde, German -- the site of the experimental station that produced the dastardly V-weapons. To see my photos and read about my visit, click the Wartime Wednesdays link.
what makes it so interesting, is it was an isolated, secret base....and new ''super'' weapons would be invented there.....
Okay, devilish smart germans making the V2 (and V1) rockets, then the heroic British and American bomber commands to destroy it, elation at W von Braun to make it to the rocket to the moon project in America. But..aren't you forgetting something ? http://www.dora.uah.edu/slavelabor.html Proof exists however that von Braun himself went to KZ Buchenwald to pick slave laborers (letter to Albin Sawatzki dated August 15, 1944)[citation needed]. Former inmate Adam Cabala reported: "[...] also the German scientists led by Prof. Wernher von Braun were aware of everything daily. As they went along the corridors, they saw the exhaustion of the inmates, their arduous work and their pain. Not one single time did Prof. Wernher von Braun protest against this cruelty and bestiality during his frequent stays at Dora. Even the aspect of corpses did not touch him: On a small area near the ambulance shed, inmates tortured to death by slave labor and the terror of the overseers were piling up daily. [...] But Prof. Wernher von Braun passed them so close that he was almost touching the corpses" Not only that, but during the RAF bombardments many of the forced labourers (left outside in barracks, not allowed in bombshelters) died. The RAF believed and celebrated they had killed many german workers.
they needed Braun...seems like he might have saved a few from death in the camps......there were lots of Germans that did nothing....yes, it does seem hypocritical, but that is politics
