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Mittelwerk, the Glossary

Mittelwerk (German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing.^[1]

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History of Nordhausen
Linde plc
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
Operation Crossbow
V-weapon subterranea

Allied-occupied Germany

The entirety of Germany was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the Berlin Declaration on 5 June 1945 to the establishment of West Germany on 23 May 1949.

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Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9, 1906 – January 1, 1996) was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. Mittelwerk and Arthur Rudolph are operation Paperclip.

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Blockhaus d'Éperlecques

The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques (Bunker of Éperlecques, also referred to as "the Watten bunker" or simply "Watten") is a Second World War bunker, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the northern Pas-de-Calais ''département'' of France, and only some 14.4 kilometers (8.9 miles) north-northwest from the more developed La Coupole V-2 launch facility, in the same general area. Mittelwerk and Blockhaus d'Éperlecques are operation Crossbow and v-weapon subterranea.

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Buchenwald concentration camp

Buchenwald (literally 'beech forest') was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.

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Bunker

A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks.

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Cham, Germany

Cham (Kouba) is the capital of the district of Cham in the Upper Palatinate in Bavaria in Germany.

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Code name

A code name, codename, call sign, or cryptonym is a code word or name used, sometimes clandestinely, to refer to another name, word, project, or person.

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Dora trial

The Dora Trial, also the "Dora"-Nordhausen or Dachau Dora Proceeding (Dachau-Dora Prozess) was a war crimes trial conducted by the United States Army in the aftermath of the collapse of the Third Reich. Mittelwerk and Dora trial are Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp and unfree labor during World War II.

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Edmund Geilenberg

Edmund Geilenberg (born 13 January 1906, Witten-Buchholz-Kaempen – died 19 October 1964, Bassum) was a German official of World War II who headed an emergency 1944 decentralization program, the Geilenbergstab or Geilenbergprogramm (Geilenberg Special Staff), to disperse Nazi Germany oil production.

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Emil Leeb

Emil Leeb (17 June 1881 – 8 September 1969) was a German General during the Second World War.

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Fieseler

The Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) in Kassel was a German aircraft manufacturer of the 1930s and 1940s.

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Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

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General of the Artillery (Germany)

(en: General of the artillery) may mean: A rank of three-star general, comparable to modern armed forces OF-8 grade, in the Imperial German Army and its contingency armies of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg.

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Georg Rickhey

Georg Johannes Rickhey (25 August 1898, Hildesheim – 21 November 1970, Essen) was a German engineer and the general director of Mittelwerk GmbH in Dora-Mittelbau. Mittelwerk and Georg Rickhey are operation Paperclip.

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German reunification

German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single full sovereign state, which took place between 9 November 1989 and 15 March 1991.

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GmbH

(), literally 'company with limited liability' (abbreviated as GmbH in Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and as Ges.m.b.H. in Austria), is a type of legal entity in German-speaking countries.

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Hans Kammler

Hans Kammler (26 August 1901 – 1945) was an SS-Obergruppenführer responsible for Nazi civil engineering projects and its top secret V-weapons program.

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Heinkel He 162

The Heinkel He 162 Volksjäger (German, "People's Fighter") was a German single-engine, jet-powered fighter aircraft fielded by the Luftwaffe late in World War II.

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Hermes program

Project Hermes was a missile research program run by the Ordnance Corps of the United States Army from November 15, 1944, to December 31, 1954, in response to Germany's rocket attacks in Europe during World War II.

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Ilfeld

Ilfeld is a village and a former municipality in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Kaiserwald concentration camp

Kaiserwald (Ķeizarmežs) was a Nazi concentration camp near the Riga suburb of Mežaparks in modern-day Latvia.

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Kapo

A kapo or prisoner functionary (Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the Schutzstaffel (SS) guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.

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Kőbánya cellar system

The Kőbánya cellar system or cellar system of Kőbánya (in Hungarian: kőbányai pincerendszer, "cellar system of Kőbánya", or kőbányai alagútrendszer, "tunnel system of Kőbánya"), sometimes known to non-Hungarians simply as the Kőbánya Mine, or the Kobanya Mine, is an extensive network of subterranea, or underground spaces, in the 10th district of Budapest (Kőbánya), in Hungary.

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Kohnstein

The Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2 kilometres southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of Nordhausen. Mittelwerk and Kohnstein are Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

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Lehesten

Lehesten is a town in the Thuringian Forest, 20 km southeast of Saalfeld. Mittelwerk and Lehesten are v-weapon subterranea.

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Liquid oxygen

Liquid oxygen, sometimes abbreviated as LOX or LOXygen, is a clear light sky-blue liquid form of dioxygen.

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List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes

The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity on behalf of the Axis powers during World War II, including those who were acquitted or never received judgment.

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Magnus von Braun

Magnus "Mac" Freiherr von Braun (10 May 1919 – 21 June 2003) was a German chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, rocket scientist and business executive. Mittelwerk and Magnus von Braun are operation Paperclip.

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Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp

Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. Mittelwerk and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp are history of Nordhausen, unfree labor during World War II and v-weapon subterranea.

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Napalm

Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline or diesel fuel).

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National Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration.

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Nero Decree

The Nero Decree (Nerobefehl) was issued by Adolf Hitler on 19 March 1945, ordering the destruction of German infrastructure to prevent its use by Allied forces as they penetrated deep within Germany.

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Nordhausen, Thuringia

Nordhausen is a city in Thuringia, Germany.

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Oil campaign targets of World War II

Allied bombing of the oil campaign targets of World War II included attacks on Nazi Germany oil refineries, synthetic oil plants, storage depots, and other chemical works. Mittelwerk and oil campaign targets of World War II are oil campaign of World War II.

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Operation Bellicose

Operation Bellicose was an attack by Avro Lancaster bombers of the Royal Air Force on a German radar factory housed in the former Zeppelin Works at Friedrichshafen and the Italian naval base at La Spezia.

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Operation Blossom

Operation Blossom was a covert operation that was formed by the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC) in 1950.

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Operation Hydra (1943)

Operation Hydra was an attack by RAF Bomber Command on a German scientific research centre at Peenemünde on the night of 17/18 August 1943.

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Operations Sandy and Pushover

Operation Sandy was the codename for the post-World War II launch of a captured V-2 rocket from the deck of the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS ''Midway'' on September 6, 1947.

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Peenemünde Army Research Center

The Peenemünde Army Research Center (Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office (Heereswaffenamt). Mittelwerk and Peenemünde Army Research Center are world War II sites of Nazi Germany.

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Project Riese

Riese (German for "giant") was the code name for a construction project of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945.

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RAF Bomber Command

RAF Bomber Command controlled the Royal Air Force's bomber forces from 1936 to 1968.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Redl-Zipf

The Redl-Zipf V-2 rocket facility (code name Schlier) located in central Austria between Vöcklabruck and Vöcklamarkt and established in September 1943 began operation for V-2 rocket motor testing after Raxwerke test equipment had been moved from Friedrichshafen. Mittelwerk and Redl-Zipf are v-weapon subterranea.

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Richard Overy

Richard James Overy (born 23 December 1947) is a British historian who has published on the history of World War II and Nazi Germany.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Roy Fedden

Sir Alfred Hubert Roy Fedden MBE, FRAeS (6 June 1885 – 21 November 1973) was an engineer who designed most of Bristol Engine Company's successful piston aircraft engine designs.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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St. Martin's Press

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Subterranea (geography)

Subterranea are underground structures, both natural (such as caves) and human-made (such as mines).

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Taifun (rocket)

Taifun (German for "typhoon") was a German World War II anti-aircraft unguided rocket system.

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Thomas Y. Crowell

Thomas Young Crowell (1836–1915) was an American bookbinder and publisher, the founder of New York City book publishing company Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Crowell operated the bindery of Benjamin Bradley, deceased 1862, and acquired it in 1870.

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Thuringia

Thuringia, officially the Free State of Thuringia, is a state of central Germany, covering, the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states.

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University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland.

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V-1 flying bomb

The V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1") was an early cruise missile.

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V-2 rocket

The V2 (lit), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile. Mittelwerk and v-2 rocket are operation Crossbow and operation Paperclip.

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V-2 rocket facilities of World War II

V-2 rocket facilities were military installations associated with Nazi Germany's V-2 SRBM ballistic missile, including bunkers and small launch pads which were never operationally used. Mittelwerk and v-2 rocket facilities of World War II are operation Crossbow and world War II sites of Nazi Germany.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelwerk

Also known as Mittelwerk GmbH, Mittelwerk tunnel system.

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Mittelwerk, the Glossary

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See also

History of Nordhausen

Linde plc

Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp

Operation Crossbow

V-weapon subterranea

References