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Buried Evil: V2 Rocket (Part 3)

2024/3/1
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叙述者：本集讲述了美国士兵在1945年4月发现纳粹德国诺德豪森集中营附近隐藏的V2火箭生产设施的经过。该设施利用奴隶劳工在地下隧道中进行生产，条件极其恶劣，导致大量人员死亡。这揭露了V2火箭计划背后残酷的真相，以及纳粹政权对人权的严重践踏。集中营的惨状，以及奴隶劳工的非人待遇，构成了对人类良知的巨大冲击。V2火箭计划的成功，是以无数人的生命和苦难为代价的。从佩内明德的“工人天堂”到米特尔维克的“地狱”，V2火箭项目的转变，反映了纳粹政权的残酷本质以及战争的非人道性。 Tim Harford: 本集的核心论点在于V2火箭计划的巨大代价，不仅体现在经济和资源的消耗上，更体现在对人权的践踏和对生命的不尊重上。建造V2火箭的过程中，大量奴隶劳工被残酷地剥削和压榨，他们的生命和尊严被无情地忽视。这一事实令人震惊，也引发了对战争伦理和人类责任的深刻思考。V2火箭的军事意义远不及其造成的巨大的人道主义灾难。

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The American soldiers discovered a horrific scene of emaciated survivors and smoldering corpses at a Nazi prison camp, alongside tunnels filled with tools and partially assembled rockets, revealing the heart of the V2 manufacturing program.

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As US troops approached a Nazi prison camp, they could hear agonized wailing. The stench of rotting flesh filled their nostrils. Moments later they discovered a pile of smoldering corpses, alongside emaciated survivors.

Next to the concentration camp they found something else: tunnels filled with tools — and partially assembled rockets. The soldiers had hit upon the evil heart of the V2 manufacturing program: enslaved laborers, imprisoned underground.

And the rocket program's director? Wernher von Braun had already fled. He now had just one concern: persuading the Americans to let him switch sides…

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