Riese ([ˈʁiːzə]; German for "giant") was the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945. It consisted of seven underground structures in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle in Lower Silesia, which was then Nazi Germany and is now Poland.
None of them were finished, and all are in different states of completion with only eleven per cent reinforced by concrete.
The purpose of the project remains uncertain because of the lack of documentation. Some sources suggest that all the structures were part of the Führer Headquarters;[1][2][3] according to others, it was a combination of headquarters (HQ) and arms industry[4][5] but comparison to similar facilities indicates that only the castle was adapted as an HQ or other official residence, and the tunnels in the Owl Mountains were planned as a network of underground factories.[6][7][8]
The construction work was done by forced labourers, prisoners of war (POWs), and prisoners of concentration camps, and many lost their lives, mostly as a result of disease and malnutrition.
Riese ([ˈʁiːzə]; German for "giant") was the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945. It consisted of seven underground...
Srebrna Góra, Grodno Castle in Zagórze Śląskie, the adit complexes of ProjectRiese near Walim and the Mining Museum in Poland. Major towns at the foot...
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camps known as Arbeitslager Riese, which supplied forced labor (mostly Jews from Hungary, Poland and Greece) for ProjectRiese (English: giant), the code...
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Adepitan Hunting the Nazi Gold Train BBC Two 60-minute episode exploring ProjectRiese, Schloss Fürstenstein and the search for the "Nazi gold train". Operation...
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deemed "racially worthless" in Wąsosz, where many died. The ProjectRiese construction project, which cost the lives of many forced laborers of various nationalities...
construct underground refineries and armaments factories, also termed ProjectRiese. In 1943, the organisation was administratively incorporated into Albert...
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Germanic royal families from working for the military. ProjectRiese – Code name for a construction project in 1943–1945, consisting of seven underground structures...
50°49′25″N 10°55′31″E / 50.82361°N 10.92528°E / 50.82361; 10.92528 ProjectRiese, a set of seven unfinished Nazi-era underground works in southwest Poland...
military facilities in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle. Code-named ProjectRiese, work started in 1943 but was unfinished by the time Russian and Polish...
for the guns of the aircraft assembled Engelberg Tunnel Mittelwerk ProjectRiese Kőbánya cellar system – a former underground quarry and tunnel system...
prisoners, after initial selection for labor at Auschwitz, had been in the ProjectRiese group of subcamps of Gross-Rosen located in the Owl Mountains in Lower...
November 2013. Riese, Adam. "Was macht eigentlich...?" (in German). Retrieved 3 November 2016. Riese, Adam. "Was macht eigentlich...? Adam Riese informiert"...
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