German Secret Weapons of WWII

Very impressive. Which museum is this again?

 

I know, I know!
I thought I recognized some of the stuff, but Hitler's car is a dead giveaway. Some are from the Canadian War Museum (don't know if that's the exact name) and the airplanes are from the air and space museum in ottawa. I visted them in 1998 w/my dad (and family) when we visited my uncle in ottawa. our car broke down, so for a week we visited various museums in and around ottawa. pretty cool.

 

and the pics are the ones i took, not the musuems, just clarifying that

 

Does this qualify -
I heard about an unusual method the Germans used to try and discover if their V2s were hitting their targets.
They targetted a town (Oldham), and filled the V2 warhead with Christmas letters from POWs who came from that town - each letter had a 'please write back' included!
These letters were scattered all over Oldham, and the local police had to tell everbody not to write back, or there would be more V2s, but full of explosives!

 

:-? :-?

 

Sneaky trick, as well as a dirty one, using the relatives of POWs that way. Did anyone actually send a reply, despite what the authorities said?

 

http://www.v2rocket.com/start/deploymen ... icles.html


excellent site on v weps

 

now im a bit confused as regards the references to 7/3 - all the sdkfz codes have 5 vehicles in the "7" series thats the 7, 7/1 quad 20, 7/2 37, 7/6 flak control vehicle and the 7/9 v rocket control vehicle. Ive never seen a 7/6 im afraid an cant find one using my meager resources. but im almost certain there is no 7/3

 

what about rocket jet-pack is it true that the germans are trying to develope such weapon?

 

Oh come on. The jet pack is a stupid idea, imagine the flames coming out of that thing, you'd be scorched just wearing it. Also, jet engines rely on air intake; where would that come from on a jet pack? Not only is this completely unworkable and dangerous, it's also pointless. The Allies had complete superiority in the air; what use would a few flying soldiers have?

 

I need to look a bit harder but one of the old german propaganda magazines has a photo of a german trooper in a jet pack. There was a company in Bavaria doing research on Jet Helicopters and I think the research was related somehow something like 1 man jet assisted helicopters. Ya got to remember the germans were masters at jet boosters. Most all of their stuff used jet assited takeoff paks to get airborne on short airfields. It raised the load rating of the planes considerably and dropped runway length.

 

I think it was this forum topic where the latest "V" weapon I stated was the "V3" to launch biological weapons at the UK. I finally found the right link.

http://www.ww2guide.com/vweapon.shtml

Enjoy!

 

Shells, yes.
Biological weapons?
As far as I was aware (and it seems to be confirmed by your link) it was desined as a large number of long-range artillery weaopns capable of a sustained heavy barrage against London.

 

As far as I knew the V-3 was never intended to launch biological weapons, just big, long range HE. At least according to Paul Brickhill's book the Dam Busters, which describes 617 Sqns destruction of the site. Although I have reason to question some of his figures (re. the quantities of explosives used on the UK and Berlin), I don't doubt that the Germans did not intend to use either Chem or Biological weapons since they were capable of this, but even right at the end chose not to.

 

There was more than one site, thats for sure. The site where the biological weapons and the V3 weapons, and V2, was never destroyed. The Brits never even knew of this underground facility until they secured the area. What they found was that the Germans could manufacture the entire weapon systems, house the personnel, and manufacture the bio weapons in this underground facility.
The details are locked away and considered '"Most Secret"' even today.
It was on the "History Channel", a one hour special presentation.
Churchill was terrified at what he found in the analysis and ordered all Allied engineers, as many as possible I guess, to deal with this facility.

When the show comes on again, or heck just try their web site to find out about the program, I will post the actual name and produces of the show.

 

Germany did hold chemical weapons, but they never used them, and as far as I know they didn't intent to either.

It is interesting to note that the V3 somewhat resembles Gerald Bull's Project Babylon, in that both were very large guns, fixed to the ground on a slope.

 

but would the germans won the war with their secret weaponos if they have the chance to manfacture them in huge amount and become the standard weapons of their armed forces? I think no, cause the the allies were just too powerful with their mass human and natural resources .

 

Indeed. I wonder why people keep relating the achievements of German scietists during WW2 with their military exploits, since few of the projects they started resulted in useful and actually used weaponry. And even that was mostly just a waste of manpower and resources (for example the V weapons).

The fact that hundreds of forced labourers had to suffer to build them doesn't help much on the positive side either...

 

Especially since the slave laborers quite often sabotaged whatever they were producing whenever they thought they could get away with it.

 

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My wartime reports tell me that in July 16th 1944 "flying bombs" being used by the germans.
September 1944. "8,000 flying bombs were launched during the attack of which 2,300 reached the London area.
As late as April 1944 1,050 "Rocket Bombs" fell on southern England, killing 2,754 persons.
My best "secret Weapon" collected in Germany was a hand held battery-less torch, fitted into the palm of the hand and was "pumped" by a lever similar to a hand grenade clip, evidentally a small dynamo inside.