Missiles for the Fatherland: Peenemünde, National Socialism, and the V-2 Missile

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 Peenemünde. Using mainly primary source documents and publicly available oral history interviews, Michael Petersen examines the lives of the men and women who worked at Peenemünde and later at the underground slave labor complex called ...