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HARTECK: [...] we would have needed to employ 50 workmen continuously in order to produce two tons a year. If we wanted to make ten tons we would have had to em
by Full_Clark 3y ago
HARTECK: [...] we would have needed to employ 50 workmen continuously in order to produce two tons a year. If we wanted to make ten tons we would have had to employ 250 men. We couldn't do that.
WEIZSÄCKER: How many people were working on V 1 and V 2?
DIEBNER: Thousands worked on that.
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Diebner is omitting HOW they got that workforce up into the thousands. Many who worked on V-1 and V-2 rockets were prisoners who were literally worked to death.
- whimsicalism 3y agoLikely comparably humane to the US sourcing almost all of its WWII uranium from the Belgian Congo