Leon-Henri Roth

Léon-Henri Roth (29 August 1922 – 24 March 1945 after being caught starting a resistance cell, punished in Luxembourgish enrolés de force (forced labourers). He had worked at Peenemünde. He successfully got letters through to his father, 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'." continued to be a very valuable source of information for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) (MI6). 'Pierre 8360' and his deputy, 'Hubert 8362', used to come to the Belgian frontier personally to collect them from Leon. Leon kept the originals, hidden in a safe place. both Luxembourgish enrolés de force (forced labourers), who had worked at Peenemünde and smuggled out letters describing rocket research, giving conflicting accounts of the size, warhead range and means of propulsion of the device. Despite the confusion, there was little doubt that the Germans were working on a rocket and in April 1943, the Chiefs of Staff warned operational HQs of the possibility of rocket weapons.

Death Roth was killed by American army fire in 1945 while escaping with two Frenchmen in a German military car, He was re-interred in Luxembourg in 1968 and awarded the highest decoration of the resistance.