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JDPON Don you done it again

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      Slave laborers. I just needed to be a bit pedantic.

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      I wanted to leave a Wikipedia link and quote here but pages had no easily quotable stuff. I do not want to link to a .mil page but it’s convenient.

      German V-Weapons: Desperate Measures > National Museum of the United States Air Force™ > Display

      The Nazis used forced labor to build V-weapons and an estimated 20,000 people died producing them in brutal work-camp conditions.

      As if “forced labor” wasn’t creepy enough - the following paragraph makes things even creepier. I wonder if that was intentional. Hey, they might have used slaves forced labor but there was significant technological advancement!

      Both the V-1 and V-2 foreshadowed future weapons development. The V-1 Buzz Bomb’s pilotless, self-guided aircraft features reappeared in later cruise missiles, and the V-2, as the first practical rocket-guided ballistic missile, pointed the way toward nuclear-armed ballistic missiles…