We’re releasing an epic three-part collection concerning the V2 rocket – a terrifying and likewise bafflingly costly weapon. How did Nazi Germany ever determine to construct such a factor, and what does it train us about grandiose tasks at the moment? Additionally – what does the shameful underbelly of the V2 programme inform us about complicity in probably the most dreadful crimes?
The complete collection is out there to Pushkin+ subscribers. I’ve been engaged on it for greater than a 12 months, and I’m very pleased with the outcomes. Should you’re not a paying subscriber (and I perceive, it’s not for everybody) then you definitely would possibly nonetheless take pleasure in at the moment’s impassioned dialogue with our in-house WWII knowledgeable, founding producer Ryan Dilley, that includes contributions from Tom Lehrer.
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Additional studying
Important sources for this collection:
Murray Barber V2: The A4 Rocket from Peenemunde to Redstone
Norman Longmate Hitler’s Rockets
Jean Michel Dora
Michael Neufeld The Rocket and the Reich
Michael Neufeld Von Braun: Dreamer of Area, Engineer of Struggle
Michael Neufeld additionally kindly agreed to be interviewed as background for the collection.
Different sources embrace:
RV Jones Most Secret Struggle
Steven Zaloga V1 Flying Bomb 1942-52
Steven Zaloga V2 Ballistic Missile 1942-52
Freeman Dyson Disturbing the Universe
Walter Dornberger V2
Daniel Lang “A Romantic Urge” The New Yorker 21 April 1950
Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner How Huge Issues Get Completed
Diane Tedeschi interview with Michael Neufeld Smithsonian Journal 1 Jan 2008
Michael Neufeld “Wernher von Braun, the SS and Focus Camp Labor: Questions of Ethical, Political and Legal Duty.” German Research Overview. 25:57–78. 2002
Adam Tooze Wages of Destruction
Dean Reuter The Hdden Nazi
Brian Crim Our Germans
Annie Jacobsen Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Introduced Nazi Scientists to America
Steve Ossad “The Liberation of Nordhausen Focus Camp“
Amy Shira Teitel “The Nazi Smoke and Mirrors Escape That Launched American Into The Area Age” Motherboard, 15 September 2012