VON BRAUN’S UNDERGROUND V2 ROCKET FACTORY

When Germany’s defeat was already looming, Nazi leaders were all about its “Wunderwaffe” V1 and V2 rockets. The doomed regime fantasized these deadly weapons would change fortunes in Germany’s favour. As the reach of Allied bomber fleets increasingly threatened German arms production, the V1 and V2 production facilities where relocated to a gargantuan underground tunnel system in the remote Harz mountain range.