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    Mittelwerk ([ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It...
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    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...
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    production facility was moved to the Mittelwerk facility, which was near Nordhausen and underground. Mittelwerk was originally a gypsum mine that was...
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    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...
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    authorized its deployment in large numbers. The V-2s were constructed at the Mittelwerk site by prisoners from Mittelbau-Dora, a concentration camp where 20,000...
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  • 15 March 1944. Allied advances in Northern France, improvements of the Mittelwerk underground facility, where the A-4 rockets were produced, and improvements...
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    facility of Mittelwerk. In addition to his position as commandant at Dora, Förschner was also technically the managing director of Mittelwerk GmbH, the...
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  • experimental and production rockets fabricated at Peenemünde and at the Mittelwerk. Post-war launches were performed in Germany at Cuxhaven, in the USSR...
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  • district and city. Targets around Nordhausen included Gustloff factory, Mittelwerk and Nordhausen airfield McKillop, July "Looking for info on Gustloff Werke...
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    Manufacturing of V-1 cruise missiles and V-2 rockets in the Mittelwerk tunnels resulted in the deaths of more than 12,000 people....
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