Word: nordhausen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dominate future wars. The V-2 project (code name "E.W.," for Elektromechanische Werke) was pushed with all the secrecy and urgency which surrounded the U.S. "Manhattan District." The rockets were developed and tested at Peenemünde on the Baltic, and manufactured in a vast underground factory at Nordhausen, east of Kassel...
...behind them, the rocket men packed up everything they could move, and fled through the chaos of collapsing Germany. A few had gone south (on Hitler's orders) toward the "Alpine Stronghold"; the rest fought their way over bomb-battered highways and railroads to a small town near Nordhausen...
Soon the Americans swept into Nordhausen. Colonel Holger N. Toftoy, of Army Ordnance, grabbed the rocket men, took them to the U.S. zone, got permission to send most of them to the U.S. Meanwhile, another Ordnance team commanded by tall, cheery Major James P. Hamill, 27, was vacuum-cleaning the V-2 factory. They got all the V-2s they wanted...
Some of the Germans, in relays, were sent to White Sands Proving Grounds, 70 miles north of Fort Bliss, where they taught Americans to fire the V-2s assembled from Nordhausen parts. Last week they were still at work there. White Sands had grown to a great laboratory, staffed with Ordnance, Air Forces, Navy and civilian (General Electric Co.) personnel...
...Germany. For months, the U.S. and Britain have brought well substantiated charges that the Soviet Army is spurring production of war materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...