September 18, 2025
Tim McGraw wrote:
The documentary focuses on the moral ambiguity of the German scientists and the horrors of the slave factory that built the missiles. The narrator downplays the effects of the V-2 rocket campaign on British morale. Nine thousand dead civilians is a large number. Look at how America reacted to the deaths of three thousand civilians on 9/11.
By the end of WWII, Americans were no longer buying War Bonds. The Japanese were killing more American soldiers on Iwo Jima and Okinawa than the Japs were losing. The British, who had been at war longer than the Americans, were exhausted. A silent death from above was psychologically damaging. A V-2 would wipe out a city block or more.
The narrator says the material and manpower used for the V-2s could have built thousands of jet fighters for Germany. Yeah, but Germany was out of pilots. The U-boats were being sunk by the Allies. Hitler’s last hope was psychological warfare on the Allies…terrorism.
Psychological warfare is being used on us today.