Collected: Stories from the Australian War Memorial explores the artefacts that make up the museum of the Australian War Memorial. Join journalist Louise Maher and take a closer look at the obscure, popular, strange and wonderful items in the collection.
Louise peels back the past, highlights the history and uncovers the stories that the public don’t always get to hear.
Jun 20, 2021
The V2 rocket developed by the Germans in World War Two was the world’s first strategic ballistic missile and a forerunner of the rocket that took humans to the moon.
In Episode 30 of Collected, Louise Maher is shown a captured V2 that was brought to Australia after the war and hears the testimony of a Jewish concentration camp survivor forced to work on the Nazi weapons project.