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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.
Indian workers check new fuel tanks at the Hindustan Aircraft Factory in Bangalore, 1944. Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
9×19mm Parabellum. Luftwaffe. 10,450 Astra 600s had been delivered to Germany until German occupation of France ceased. [ 4] The remainder of the German order, consisting of 28,000 pistols, was intercepted by Allied forces in September 1944. [ 1] [ 3] Astra 900. Astra-Unceta y Cia SA. 7.63×25mm Mauser.
The Valentin submarine factory was a protective bunker on the Weser River at the Bremen suburb of Farge-Rekum, built to protect German U-boats during World War II. The factory was under construction from 1943 to March 1945 using forced labour. It was the largest fortified U-boat facility in Germany, and was second only to those built at Brest ...
The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde, [ a] HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office ( Heereswaffenamt ). [ 3]: 85 Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were developed by the HVP, including the V-2 rocket.
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In the first half of the 20th century, the firm of Polte Armaturen- und Maschinenfabrik OHG in Magdeburg, Germany was an important manufacturer of large fittings and one of the largest ammunition producers in the world. [ 1] The group was one of the most important employers in Magdeburg, [ 2] a pioneer in the construction of sanitary and social ...
MG08 machine gun. Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken Aktiengesellschaft (German Weapons and Munitions public limited company), known as DWM, was an arms company in Imperial Germany created in 1896 when Ludwig Loewe & Company united its weapons and ammunition production facilities within one company. In 1896 Loewe founded Deutsche Waffen ...