The V1 Flying Bomb | Hitler’s secret vengeance weapon

The V1 Flying Bomb, also known as a ’buzz bomb’ or ’doodlebug’, was one of the most fear-inducing terror weapons of the Second World War. In the face of relentless Allied bombing of German cities, Hitler created its ’revenge weapons’ (Vergeltungswaffen) in an attempt to terrorise British civilians and undermine morale. Nazi propaganda hailed the V1 as a ’wonder weapon’ (Wunderwaffe) that might turn the tide of the war. But alongside the civilians killed and wounded by the V-1 are the forgotten victims of the vengeance weapons, the people who made them. Inside the Harz mountains in Germany, tens of thousands of slave labourers from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp lost their lives building the tunnels where the weapons were made. The V-1 is not only a symbol of Nazi attempts to fight the Second World War in innovative ways but of their greatest crime - The Holocaust. The connection between the V-1 as a weapon of war and as a part of the Holocaust is a key the