Description

This special extra edition of Signal is devoted entirely to the V-2 ballistic missile campaign against England, drawing exclusively on British and neutral press reports to present the weapon’s effects through enemy eyes — a unique piece of late-war German propaganda.

8 pages scanned

Articles and Features

Nach englischen Angaben … / According to English Sources …
Compiled by the Signal editorial staff from British and neutral wire dispatches; illustrations by Hans Liska and Richard Heinisch.
The lead article aggregates eyewitness accounts, Reuters dispatches, and statements by Winston Churchill and BBC commentator Lindley Frazer to document V-2 impacts across London and southern England from October 1944 onward, accompanied by a range-arc map centered on London showing the 600 km reach of the weapon.

V 2 und die Wissenschaft / V-2 and Science
An illustrated scientific feature places the V-2 in context by comparing its stratospheric flight ceiling of 95–110 km (per Churchill’s House of Commons statement of 11 November 1944) with other altitude benchmarks — Eiffel Tower, Mont Blanc, Everest, Professor Piccard’s balloon, and the observed cloud of a volcanic eruption — via a dramatic altitude chart.

V 2 und der Mond / V-2 and the Moon
No individual author credited; cites British scientist J. B. S. Haldane.
Drawing on a Time magazine (Swedish edition, 27 November 1944) article and a statement by biologist J. B. S. Haldane, this piece speculates that the V-2’s post-war future lies in spaceflight, including circumlunar photography of Earth’s far side.

“Eine Szene wie aus einem Alptraum …” / “A Scene as from a Nightmare …”
Quote attributed to Hugh Baillie, United Press; illustration described by London correspondent of the Stockholm Morgontidningen.
The closing feature uses British and neutral eyewitness testimony alongside a dramatic aerial artwork showing a V-2 impact blast over a city with annotated damage zones (1–4) to document the weapon’s destructive radius, citing Swedish and British press statistics that 1.1 million houses had been damaged or destroyed by V-weapons as of December 1944.