Léon-Henri Roth (29 August 1922[1][2] – 24 March 1945[1][3]) was a resistance fighter. In addition, his information (he passed while being a forced labourer), had contributed to the Allies awareness of Germans working on rocket weapons in its 1943 operations, leading to the destruction by the RAF of the German experimental rocket-launching station at Peenemunde on the Baltic.
Born in Echternach[1] he was exiled,[4][5] after being caught starting a resistance cell, punished in Luxembourgish enrolés de force (forced labourers). He had worked at Peenemünde.[2][6][7][4][8] He successfully got letters through to his father,[9] Leon Roth, a member of a Belgian network. The report stated: "development of a large rocket which made a noise resembling that of 'a squadron at low altitude'."[2]
For fear his family would suffer from the Gestapo, he refused to be helped escaping.[3] Later on, he died while in a German military car.[2]
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- ^ a b c d Williams, Allan (2013-05-30). Operation Crossbow: The Untold Story of the Search for Hitler's Secret Weapons. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4090-5173-2. In addition, there was evidence from foreign labourers who had been conscripted to work there and who began providing reports from early June 1943. One of them was twenty-year old Luxembourger Leon Henri Roth. who was exiled there after being caught starting a resistance cell. He successfully got letters through to his father, a member of a Belgian network, describing the rocket testing as sounding like 'a squadron at low altitude'. Unfortunately for the resistance hero, Roth would be killed by American army fire in 1945 while escaping with two Frenchmen in a German military car.
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- ^ New Scientist. Reed Business Information. 1978-02-23. p. 496. "Pulling the crooked Leg," by Reginald Victor Jones.
- ^ Walpole, Nigel (2018-03-30). Hitler's Revenge Weapons: The Final Blitz of London. Pen and Sword. ISBN 978-1-5267-2289-8.
- ^ Axelrod, Alan (2015-05-19). Lost Destiny: Joe Kennedy Jr. and the Doomed WWII Mission to Save London. Macmillan. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-137-27904-0.
- ^ Voilà Luxembourg. Editions Guy Binsfeld. 1993. p. 69.
- ^ Maeseneer, Guido De (2001). Peenemünde: The Extraordinary Story of Hitler's Secret Weapons V-1 and V-2. AJ Publishing. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-9699542-1-7.
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