Word: krizek
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...underground factory was a product of the war. When the Germans came to Podmokly (which they called Bodenbach) they seized the Krizek Works, Czechoslovakia's largest producer of copper wire, the area was rich in coal and hydroelectric power, and had excellent communication facilities. Later they imported French, Belgian and Russian laborers, and set them to work expanding the Krizek plants. Laboratories were built, buildings enlarged, new units erected. One of the new units was put underground, and was supersecret. It was known simply as "the Weser...
...showed no particular interest in the underground factory. Strangers wandered in & out at will. But the explosions over Hiroshima and Nagasaki brought a quick change. The security police moved in, and Germans who had worked in the factory were rounded up, put back to work. Former officials of the Krizek Works were kept out. In northern Bohemia the Russians took over the Jachymov mine, famed for its uranium deposits...
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