World IN BRIEF : GERMANY : Events Scaled Down for Nazi V-2 Rocket
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A museum director is going ahead with scaled-down events marking the 50th anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s V-2 rocket despite the government’s decision to drop its support for the observance because of outrage in Britain. “We want to show the good sides and the bad sides of the V-2,” said Peter Profe, the head of a small museum at the Peenemunde testing grounds in northeastern Germany. Nazi troops fired V-2 rockets at London and other cities toward the end of World War II, killing thousands of civilians.
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