Historical reminders

Peenemünde

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The North of France

under the Occupation,

1940-1944

The origins of the

conquest of space,

1945-1969

Peenemünde

The programmes of new weapons developed by Nazi Germany in its research centre in Peenemünde, and especially the strategic A4/V2 rocket, are indications of the total war that the Second World War represented.

One of humanity’s earliest dreams, that of flying into space, turned into a nightmare, with the construction of missiles with a high level of technology, produced by manpower from the concentration camps and deployed against civilian populations in the context of a military campaign with a terrorist aspect.

Peenemünde, a human adventure that turned into a nightmare...
	1. The era of the pioneers and the dream of peace 2. The era of the armed forces and the Nazis 3. The Peenemünde research centre 4. The deployment of the German weapons system 5. The VI and V2 rocket campaigns 6. The end of the Peenemünde teams

« Et les savants de Hitler ont conquis l’espace »
Yves LE MANER, in L’Histoire, n° 227, décembre 1998

The Rocket and the Reich
Michael J. NEUFELD. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1995

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