Mittelwerk, Hitler's Rocket Factory: Part 2

CONTENT WARNING Continuing our exploration into the history of Mittelwerk, the death factory that produced Wernher Von Braun's V2 missiles, we cover the successes of the A4 missile bringing unwanted attention, the use of concentration camp labour at the Peenemunde missile facility, and Operation Hydra, the British plan to bomb that facility flat. 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