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Hitler's Rockets: The Story of the V-2s
In Hitler’s Rockets Norman Longmate tells the story of the V-2, the technically brilliant but hated weapon, the ancestor and forerunner of all subsequent ballistic missiles. He reveals the devious power-play within the German armed forces and the Nazi establishment that so influenced the creation of the rockets. He shows through contemporary documents and protagonists’ acc...more
Paperback, 432 pages
Published
July 23rd 2009
by Skyhorse Publishing
(first published 1985)
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Christmas gift from Matt & Keri. Good coverage from both sides. Explains why British government suppressed reporting damage caused by the V2's. Almost had too much detail in all of the incidents of the results of the damage. Lord Cherwell, Churchill's scientific adviser, kept saying the rockets were not possible despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Back cover describes the rockets best, ...........technically brilliant but morally detestable...................
Apparently not all Nazis were bad. The German scientists that we brought back to America after WWII had their US citizenship fast tracked, were given parades, and in some cases given “Keys to the City”. These were the people responsible for killing thousands of British civilians during the V2 rein of terror just a few years earlier. Had they contributed to the Holocaust and not been scientists they would have been convicted of war crimes and hung.
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