Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 1

HUGE CONTENT WARNING FOR THIS SERIES To start our retelling of the story of the Mittelwerk death factory, we cover the early history of the Nazi military rocket program. The VfR amateur rocket club, Walter Dornberger, and the internal politics and squabbling that created the infamous Peenemunde rocket test site. SOURCES: Jean Michel & Louis Nucera, Dora: The Nazi Concentration Camp Where Modern Space Technology Was Born and 30,000 Prisoners Died Michael Neufeld, The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era Benny Grunfeld, A Teenager in Hitler's Death Camps T D Dungan, V-2: A Combat History of the First Ballistic Missile Annie Jacobsen, Operation Paperclip