Mittelwerk | |
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Nordhausen, Thuringia | |
Coordinates | 51°32′05″N 10°45′04″E / 51.5348°N 10.751°E |
Type | Subterranean bunker |
Site information | |
Open to the public | Museum in the southern part of Tunnel A[1] |
Site history | |
Built | Completed 1943 |
Built by | Mittelwerk GmbH |
In use | 1943–1945 |
Mittelwerk ([ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; 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.