A rocket in the staircase

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    Submitted to Monthly Scavenger Hunt - August 2012 ("Interesting perspective").
    The infamous V-2 rocket was a terror weapon of the Nazi regime. Over 3000 were launched during World War II, mainly targeted at London and Antwerpen and caused the deaths of an estimated 7,250 people while 12,000 forced labourers were killed producing the weapons.
    After war, the American, Soviet and British governments all gained access to the V-2's technical designs and the actual German scientists responsible for creating the rockets.
    Exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in München. Due to the size an extra staircase had to be built around it.

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