Hitler Spent $3 Billion On A Rocket That Killed Fewer People Than The Slaves Who Built It

On September 8, 1944, the first V2 rocket struck London. It was a technological miracle—the first man-made object to touch space, traveling at supersonic speeds with no defense against it. It cost Germany nearly $3 billion (in modern equivalent), consuming half the nation's explosives and nearly all its ethanol supply.
But behind the engineering marvel lay a catastrophic strategic failure. In this video, we expose the "Fatal Mathematics" of the V2 Rocket. We reveal how this "Wonder Weapon" was actually the most expensive mistake in military history. It dropped less explosive tonnage on London in the entire war than a single Allied bomber raid dropped in one night.
Most horrifyingly, the V2 holds a dark record: it is the only weapon system in history that killed more people during its production (20,000 slave laborers) than it killed in its operation. Discover why the US chose not to build missiles in WWII, and how Germany’s obsession with "cool" technology over effective logistics hastened their defeat.
Topics Covered:
The staggering cost of the V2 vs. the Manhattan Project
Mittelwerk: The underground hell where rockets were built
The Potato Famine caused by rocket fuel production
Why the US B-29 Superfortress was a better investment
The irony of Wernher von Braun and the Space Race
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