Category: Nazi Secret Weapons

• The Hitler and the Moon Base

  This theory claimed that the V-2 was never just a vengeance weapon but the visible part of a far more ambitious Nazi space program aimed at lunar travel and, in its most extreme versions, a Moon base. The theory took hold because the V-2 was indeed a revolutionary rocket and the first human-made object to reach space by later definitions, while Wernher von Braun later became one of the best-known advocates of Moon travel in the United States. These genuine links between Nazi rocketry and later spaceflight gave the theory an unusually strong historical scaffold even though the wartime V-2 program itself was built as a military missile, not as a practical lunar transport system.