Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler s Germany. This is the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany s secret missile base at Peenemunde. Using mainly primary source documents and publicly available oral history interviews, Michael Petersen examines the lives of the men and women who worked at Peenemunde and later at the underground slave labor complex called Mittelbau-Dora, where concentration camp prisoners mass-produced the V-2. His research reveals a complex...

Missiles for the Fatherland tells the story of the scientists and engineers who built the V-2 missile in Hitler s Germany. This is the first scholarly history of the culture and society that underpinned missile development at Germany s secret missile base at Peenemunde. Using mainly primary source documents and publicly available oral history interviews, Michael Petersen examines the lives of the men and women who worked at Peenemunde and later at the underground slave labor complex called Mittelbau-Dora, where concentration camp prisoners mass-produced the V-2. His research reveals a complex...