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Missiles for the Fatherland - Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile (Hardcover)
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Missiles for the Fatherland - Peenemunde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Centennial of Flight
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Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and
engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler's Germany. This text
was the first scholarly history of the culture and society that
underpinned missile development at Germany's secret missile base at
Peenemunde. Using mainly primary source documents and publicly
available oral history interviews, Michael Petersen examines the
lives of the men and women who worked at Peenemunde and later at
the underground slave labor complex called Mittelbau-Dora, where
concentration camp prisoners mass-produced the V-2. His research
reveals a complex interaction of professional ambition, internal
cultural dynamics, military pressure, and political coercion, which
coalesced in daily life at the facility. The interaction of these
forces made the rapid development of the V-2 possible but also
contributed to an environment in which stunning brutality could be
committed against the concentration camp prisoners who manufactured
the missile.
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