Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: "Those interested in WW II and German V2 rocket developments in particular may find a recent update on my web pages useful. I put up images and comments on two of the most spectacular hardened rocket sites in Northern France." It is perhaps not widely known that the V2 rockets (and other advanced aeronautical developments) were manufactured under unbelievably inhumane conditions by concentration camp inmates in an underground factory in the Harz mountains, called "Dora". Among the forced laborers were many French. A website at www.lacoupole.com documents some of these horrors. There is also a dramatic exhibit at the "Deutsches Museum" (the world famous museum of science and technology) in Munich. The exhibit, at the base of an A4/V2, includes documentary photographs made by Walter Frentz, a German military photographer. I purchased an illustrated publication of pictures, "slave labor in the rocket tunnels" by Yves Le Maner & Andre' Sellier from La Coupole. In 1945 the US removed as many A4s as possible before turning the site over to the Soviets. Oliver Bryk