Mittelwerk
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Mittelwerk (; 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.
Key facts
- Military installation.name
- Mittelwerk
- Military installation.location
- Nordhausen, Thuringia
- Military installation.image
- File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1991-061-17, Niedersachswerfen, Produktion von V1 - V2.jpg
- Military installation.caption
- Interior of the tunnels
- Military installation.type
- Subterranean bunker
- Military installation.pushpin_map
- Germany 1937
- Military installation.built
- Completed 1943
- Military installation.builder
- Mittelwerk GmbH
- Military installation.used
- 1943–1945
- Military installation.open_to_public
- Museum in the southern part of Tunnel A
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- Mittelwerk GmbH
- Other projects
- Evacuation
- Aftermath
- Special Mission V-2
- The Dora War Crimes Trial
- Ruins
- See also
- References
- External links
Mittelwerk (; 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.
==Mittelwerk GmbH== On the night of 17/18 August 1943, RAF bombers carried out Operation Hydra against the Peenemünde Army Research Center where V-2 development and production was being carried out.
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