Leon-Henri Roth

Léon-Henri Roth (29 August 1922 – 24 March 1945) was a Luxembourgish resistance fighter. In addition, his information (he passed while being a forced labourer), had contributed to the Allies awareness of Germans working on rocket weapons in its 1943 operations, leading to the destruction by the RAF of the German experimental rocket-launching station at Peenemunde on the Baltic.

Born in Echternach he was exiled, 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'."

For fear his family would suffer from the Gestapo, he refused to be helped escaping. Later on, he died while in a German military car.