KZ Mittelbau-Dora – Zwangsarbeit für die V2-Raketen und Wernher von Braun

The moon landing is one of THE events of humanity - or at least of the 20th century. Just like the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, albeit a dark one. What do these two topics have in common? Wernher von Braun, who played a key role in the Apollo 11 moon landing through the development of the Saturn V rocket, produced his Aggregat 4, or "Retribution Weapon 2" (V2) here from 1944 in the underground complex of Mittelwerk GmbH. A concentration camp was set up specifically for this purpose so that the prisoners were close to the production facility in Kohnstein.