Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Peenemünde Army Research Center, known by its German abbreviation HVP, was founded in 1937 on the Baltic island of Usedom as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office. It developed several guided missiles and rockets used in World War II, most notably the V-2 rocket (A-4), as well as the Wasserfall, Schmetterling, Rheintochter, Taifun, and Enzian missiles.
Major-General Walter Dornberger served as the military leader of the V-2 rocket programme and other projects at Peenemünde. Wernher von Braun was the technical director, with Dr. Walter Thiel as his deputy until 1943.
The British attacked Peenemünde on the night of August 17/18, 1943, in the opening attack of Operation Crossbow, known as Operation Hydra. The raid targeted the scientists' sleeping quarters, factory workshops, and the experimental station. The U.S. Eighth Air Force carried out three additional raids on July 18, August 4, and the 25th of August 1944.
More than 450 rocket scientists from Peenemünde were captured by the U.S. Army in Oberammergau at the end of April 1945. Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger surrendered in Reutte on the 2nd of May 1945. As part of Operation Paperclip, 127 engineers were contracted to work at the White Sands Proving Grounds in the USA; a smaller number including Helmut Gröttrup and Erich Apel were forcibly transferred to the USSR as part of Operation Osoaviakhim in October 1946.
Two Polish janitors at Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide provided maps, sketches, and reports to Polish Home Army Intelligence in early 1943. By June 1943, British intelligence had received two of these reports identifying the rocket assembly hall, experimental pit, and launching tower, which contributed to the planning of the August 1943 bombing raid.
The Peenemünde Historical Technical Museum opened in 1992 in the former shelter control room and the area of the power station at the Peenemünde site. It serves as an anchor point of ERIH, the European Route of Industrial Heritage. The main turbine hall of the plant has also been used as a concert venue, including a 2022 performance by the New York Philharmonic and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic.