Rockets for the Third Reich: A report from the Underworld
In 1944, the inevitability of the defeat of Nazi Germany was already apparent. Hitler's last hope was Wunderwaffe - "wonder weapon", the latest military technology ahead of its time. The most impressive achievements of the designers of the Reich became the V-2 rocket (German. V-2 - Vergeltungswaffe-2 "vengeance weapons").
The first launch took place in March 1942 and the first combat launch - September 8, 1944 In July 1944, Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer, Hitler sent closer to the photographer Walter Frentzen to do photos on the underground military factory Dora concentration camp, where there was frantically assembling the first batch missiles. Report was intended for the Fuhrer himself.
As stated here, these unique slides were found son Frentzen in 1998 in the attic of his father in an old suitcase.
A. The tragic irony of history lay in the fact that the world's first ballistic missile build slaves. From 2000 until the liberation of prisoners of Dora did not live nearly half.
Two. Despite the strict supervision of the SS, the prisoners managed to engage in sabotage. Perhaps for this reason that many rockets had not flown to London.
Three. To escape the bombing of the allies, the German plants more deeply buried in the ground, in this case - in the bedrock.
4. This is - he, Walter Frentzen. Incidentally, in 1939 he made a color photograph of Moscow (not yet posted on the network).
Five. German engineers debug control unit rocket flight.
6. Same
7. Assembling the "electronics"
Eight. Build housing
9. Engine assembly plant
10. Rocket engine
11. Installation of tail
12. Looking at these pictures, could not help recall the words of Khrushchev's "We're doing missiles like sausages"
13. Assembly line
14. The assembled rocket is displayed for final testing
15. The launch
The number of military launches missiles made was 3225. Used to intimidate, affecting mostly civilians (killed about 2,700 people, mostly fire exposed area of England, particularly London). The military significance of the V-2 rocket was negligible.
After the German surrender all equipment, ready to launch and the team of engineers led by Von Braun himself was taken by the Americans. For them it was ready to rocket industry, saved years of work and billions of dollars.
And the Soviet Union got only the crumbs, some parts of rockets, secondary constructors. All of this was also removed and a year of hard work somehow managed to raise a Soviet version of the V-2.
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