The "REX" circuit: the total war and the conquest of space
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Access to the exhibitions on the lower floor is through the cinema. On this circuit, all the panels are identified by the letter "A" and the videos by a blue sticker.

Cinema

Film: "Hitler’s secret weapons"

Exhibition: the secret German weapons

Pioneers in the history of rockets: The supervision of German scientific research by the Nazis: Peenemünde.

Reconstruction of the entrance arch to
Hitler’s chancellery in Berlin.
Evocation of a research room in
Peenemünde in 1936.

Sectional view of the dome (5 metres thickness of concrete).

The secret weapons:

The V1 flying bomb (doodlebug)
The V2 rocket
The V2 engine.

Presentation of the Mittelwerk underground factory and the Dora camp.

The Todt Organisation and the "Atlantic Wall":

Reconstruction of a barracks of the Todt Organisation

Video projection: The Todt Organisation and the “Atlantic Wall”

The V1 and V2 campaign in the summer of 1944:

Animated map: The V1 and V2 campaign in the summer of 1944
Laser effects, models and films

Other resources:

Film: "The special constructions"

Slide show: "RAF aerial reconnaissance and the interpretation of photographs"

Film: "The liberation of the Dora camp"
This film has no commentary

The "Cold War" and the conquest of space

Summary film: "From the Earth to the Moon, 1945-1969"

Rocket room: 7 models, on a scale of 1/20, from the V2 rocket to Ariane IV.

Film: "Man on the Moon, Apollo XI, 21st July 1969".