article_snippet: The burn marks are said to be proof of the documents' sensitivity, as someone clearly tried to torch them .
article_snippet: The remarkable archive was rescued from the flames at the end of the conflict and has remained in the possession of a German collector ever since.
article_snippet: Now The remarkable archive is set to go under the hammer at Chiswick Auctions, in London, on March 18, where The remarkable archive is expected to fetch £2,500.
article_snippet: The remarkable archive could prove to be a highly important new source of information on what was by far the most important technological and scientific development to have come from the Second World War. '
article_snippet: After the war the majority of V-2-related documents were  destroyed by the Germans before the Allies moved in by orders of the SS.
article_snippet: Mr Westwood-Brookes said: 'The fact that several of the sheets in the present archive have clearly been in a fire suggests that these very papers were rescued from such destruction. '