About this episode
CONTENT WARNING This week we're back into our series delving into Mittelwerk, the underground rocket factory / concentration camp that produced Hitler's "Vengeance Weapons". In Part 5, we look at the official establishment of the Mittelbau complex and the constellation of subcamps that sprung up around it. SOURCES: Andre Sellier, A History of the Dora Camp: The Untold Story of the Nazi Slave Labor Camp That Secretly Manufactured V-2 Rockets 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