The Mountain of Secrets: Inside Hitler’s Hidden Rocket Factory.

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Deep beneath the mountains of Nordhausen, Germany constructed one of the most secret and chilling engineering complexes of the entire war: the Mittelwerk. Hidden inside a vast network of tunnels, it was here that the V-2 rocket—the world’s first long-range ballistic missile—was assembled by slave labor under conditions so brutal that thousands died long before a single rocket ever reached the launch pads. As Germany’s hopes for victory collapsed, Hitler placed all remaining faith in this “miracle weapon,” believing it could turn back the Allies through terror alone. The reality was far darker. Overworked, starved, and beaten, prisoners were forced to build technology years ahead of its time, even as their own lives were consumed by the machinery around them. When American forces finally reached the Harz Mountains in April 1945, the tunnels they uncovered stunned the world: an underground industrial city, filled with half-finished rockets, advanced machinery, and the bodies of those who had died creating them. Mittelwerk was a symbol not of German brilliance, but of its desperation—a weapon meant to change the war, but which instead exposed the moral collapse of a regime willing to bury both its hopes and its victims beneath a mountain of stone and secrecy.

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