Mittelwerk ([ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons.
^Grigoreff, Paul. "The Mittelwerk/Mittelbau/Camp Dora Mittelbau GmbH – Mittelbau KZ". V2rocket.com.
Mittelwerk ([ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It...
executive. In his 20s he worked as a rocket scientist at Peenemünde and the Mittelwerk. At age 26, he emigrated to the United States via Operation Paperclip...
15 March 1944. Allied advances in Northern France, improvements of the Mittelwerk underground facility, where the A-4 rockets were produced, and improvements...
production facility was moved to the Mittelwerk facility, which was near Nordhausen and underground. Mittelwerk was originally a gypsum mine that was...
location of V-2 production moved to Mittelwerk in Nordhausen after a British raid on Peenemünde on August 17, 1943. Mittelwerk was supplemented with slave labor...
Hildesheim – 1966) was a German engineer and the general director of Mittelwerk GmbH in Dora-Mittelbau. Rickhey, a doctor of engineering, joined the Nazi...
as a fuel/chemical depot and for Nazi Germany factories, including the Mittelwerk V-2 rocket factory that used Mittelbau-Dora slave labour. 1917–1934: The...
research and production research centers such as the V-2 rocket center of Mittelwerk, from Germany to the Soviet Union, and collect as much material as possible...
research and production centres, such as the relocated V-2 rocket centre at Mittelwerk Nordhausen, from Germany to the Soviet Union. Among the people moved were...
exhaustion. Sometime in early April 1945 as Allied forces approached the Mittelwerk facilities—where V2 rockets were being produced—the slave labourers from...
Peenemünde Army Research Center and the V-2 rocket production facility at Mittelwerk. He was convicted of war crimes by a West German court in 1970. Erwin...
to obey Hitler's order requiring Demolitions on Reich Territory, e.g., Mittelwerk). Post-war claims regarding the Alpine Fortress include: The Alpine Fortress...
was executed). The trial also addressed the question of liability of Mittelwerk V-2 rocket scientists. Richard Drauz: Former Nazi Party official, Kreisleiter...
industrial Marnate's Bunker, the V-weapon installations in Germany (Mittelwerk) & France (La Coupole, and the Blockhaus d'Éperlecques) and the Cold War...
joint undertaking with the SS leadership resulted in the creation of Mittelwerk (Central Works) for underground production of the V-2. He goes on to say...
Production Engineer of the V-2 rocket at concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora/Mittelwerk. (Bettmann is only a minor character in the film; he appears to be based...
military effectiveness. The rockets were built at an underground factory at Mittelwerk. Labor to build the A4 rockets came from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration...
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