V Is For Vengeance: 4

04/01/25 • 42 min

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In the aftermath of the fire bombing, Robert Lusser’s family finds shelter in an abandoned mansion while he heads to a remote island in the Baltic Sea. This is where he must perfect his "wonder weapon" - a never before seen flying bomb that will become the world's first cruise missile. In their search for how their grandfather managed this achievement, Stephanie and Suzanne go behind the locked gates of a ruined military base with an engineer-turned-historian who knows exactly who their grandfather was - and what he did.

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Into The Fire: 3

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Suzanne and Stephanie investigate their family's experience in the long-ago fire bombing of Kassel, Germany that killed 10,000 civilians in a single night. As they learn more about their grandfather's career, they uncover an intriguing--and frightening--turn, when he came up against one of Adolf Hitler’s infamous “blood judges.” Then, they learn that Robert Lusser moved his family to Kassel--a favorite Allied bombing target—in the first place because of an offer to lead of one of the Nazis most important--and top secret--weapons projects.

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Suzanne and Stephanie visit Tante Heide in Sacramento, California, where the sisters’ beloved aunt has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Realizing that time is running out to get the family story straight, the sisters ask difficult questions - with answers that are not black and white. Back on their odyssey through Germany, the whispers of the dead swirl around them as they walk the dark, dank tunnels of a concentration camp where the V1s were made. When Suzanne tracks down a Holocaust survivor who assembled her grandfather's flying bombs, she finds a surprising moment of grace.

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