Mittelwerk

Mittelwerk 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.

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Type: Bunker
Description: underground rocket factory in Nazi Germany
Also known as: “Mittelverka”, “Mittelwerk 1”, “Mittelwerk 2”, “Mittelwerk I”, “Mittelwerk II”, “Mittelwerke”, “Nordwerk”, “Миттельверке”, “ミッテルヴェルク”, “ミッテルワーク”, and “納粹中央工廠”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial and Kohnstein.

Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial

Museum

Mittelbau-Dora was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour from many Eastern countries occupied by Germany, for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb. Mittelbau-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial is situated 470 metres south of Mittelwerk.

Kohnstein

Peak

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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.

Salzaspring

Spring

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Salzaspring is situated 1 km southeast of Mittelwerk.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niedersachswerfen and Krimderode.

Niedersachswerfen

Village

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Niedersachswerfen is a village and a former municipality in the district of Nordhausen, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2012, it is part of the municipality Harztor.