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| Nazis bombed own cities for target practice |
| 2015-03-14 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna [TheLocal.de] Documents going on sale in London show how the Nazis tested V2 rockets, including firing them at their own cities. The owner of the documents, a private collector, claims that they have never been seen before and that they are the first evidence to show that the Nazis killed their own citizens as a means of testing their weaponry. Now they are being auctioned in the UK to the highest bidder by UK-based Chiswick Auctions. Research notes which accompany the documents say that they are final test firing reports for the V2 missile. The reports were issued to 'Kommandostelle S' a highly secretive unit about which little is known. According to the note, the report describes how V2s were fired against German population centres during the practise phase, and SS units then went to assess the damage. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 See also Isis. |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-03-14 20:51 |
| #6 Even the target had a piece of the action. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-03-14 17:16 |
| #5 Milo Minderbinder had the contract for that testing. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-03-14 12:26 |
| #4 RJS, there's always somebody around who's, umm, insufficiently enthusiastic. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2015-03-14 10:25 |
| #3 V2 were a terror weapon that didn't actually kill many people. I do wonder why you would fire into Germany and not into occupied territories though. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-14 10:15 |
| #2 Remember, they nuked New Mexico first before going on to further field testing in Japan. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-14 10:10 |
| #1 A sort of Nevada Test Site 'above ground' event? But we were forced to conduct these tests, the |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-14 08:42 |