The Dark Legacy of the V2 Rocket

Warning: this Nazi weapon was so terrifying it changed warfare forever. The V2 rocket was

the world's first long range ballistic missile and it traveled faster than the speed of sound.

Victims never heard it coming because the explosion arrived before the sound. London was hit by

over 1300 of these rockets and there was literally no defense against them.

But here's the twist: the Nazis spent more money building V2 rockets than America spent on

the entire Manhattan Project. They poured resources into this weapon while their army

was starving for supplies. And it gets darker. The rockets were built by slave labor

in underground factories where more people died making them than were actually killed by the rockets