Former V-2 site to be museum

HELFAUT-WIZERNES - A German V-2 rocket base intended to bomb England into submission in the closing stages of the second World…

HELFAUT-WIZERNES - A German V-2 rocket base intended to bomb England into submission in the closing stages of the second World War is to reopen as a war museum next year.

The vast and sinister concrete edifice near the northern French town of Saint Omer was built with Russian forced labour and proved indestructible when British bombers tried to penetrate its 5m thick roof.

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