Vengeance Rockets and Murder Camps: Otto Förschner’s Crimes
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As Allied forces stormed Normandy in June 1944, Nazi Germany unleashed a new horror on London – the V-1 flying bombs and later the V-2 rockets. These so-called "revenge weapons" were built using slave labor inside the hellish underground tunnels of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp, where tens of thousands of prisoners died from starvation, torture, executions, and exhaustion. The camp’s commandant, SS officer Otto Förschner, oversaw this brutal system of exploitation and death before moving on to command the infamous Kaufering camp complex. After the war, he was tried for war crimes at the Dachau Trials and sentenced to death for his role in mass murder and the torment of prisoners under his command.
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