V-weapons vast majority aimed at London; 2,515 reached the city, killing 6,184 civilians and injuring 17,981. Croydon to the south, on the flight path of the V1s suffered severely taking 142 hits. V-2 rocket launching sites were set up by the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on 6 September 1944. The first was launched from here against London on 8 September 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the 200 miles from the Hague to London where it struck at 6.43pm on 8 September on Chiswick causing thirteen casualties. As the V2 explosions came without warning, the
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp prisoners, but also with foreign forced labourers, POWs and drafted Germans. On 8 September 1944, the first V-2 built at Mittelbau was successfully launched at London. That month, production hit 600 units, a pace that was kept up until February 1945. Besides the main camp Dora, housing an average of 15,000 prisoners, the main subcamps were "Lager Ellrich" (established 2 May 1944, averaging around 8,000 prisoners), "Lager Harzungen" (1 April 1944, 4,000 prisoners), "Lager Rottleberode" (13 March 1944, 1,000 prisoners) and the SS construction units III and IV (totaling around 3,000 prisoners, distributed among several small camps along a newly