Classified documents reveal Nazis tested V2s on their own cities

The top-secret SS documents are said to offer proof Adolf Hitler used his own towns and cities to test the scale of the devastation caused by the ballistic missiles. The incredible archive is made up of reports which were only issued to ‘Kommandostelle S' a unit of which details are so scarce because it was such a secret organisation. They show how the desperate Nazis used their own settlements as targets while developing the deadly weapons during World War Two. It means thousands of Germans died at the hands of their own leader in 1944 and 1945 - who then blamed the carnage on Allied Forces. The V2 rockets - the V standingfor Vergeltungswaffe, or Vengeance Weapon - were fired at London and the south east of England killing over 7,000 people. The warheads were launched during the closing months of the war as Britain advanced closer to victory and were considered Hitler's last role of the dice. However, it is widely regarded if the Nazis has developed the rockets sooner they may have won the race to develop the atomic bomb and thus gone on to win the war.