werner von braun came up with the basic design for a small surface to air missle that would be deadly accurate, enough to take out allied fighters and bombers. However Hitler scrapped it and made him to make it about bojillion times bigger, giving you the highly innaccurate, no real strategic advantage but legendary V-2 rocket. Another example of hitler's fanaticism to destroy the British people, that eventually cost him the war.
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"When we come to a minefield, our infantry attacks as if it were not there. The losses we get from personnel mines we consider equal to those we would have gotten from machine guns and artillery if the Germans had chosen to defend that particular area." - General Zukhov to Eisenhower
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