Word: peenem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attributed this ignorance to excessive secrecy, but the British knew about Peenemünde and bombed it heavily only a month later...
...armed with an atomic bomb, it might very well have won the war. Why no one realized this is probably explained by the amazing lack of coordination among Nazi bigwigs. Dornberger discovered in 1943 that practically no one at Hitler's headquarters had ever heard of the enormous Peenemünde base...
...Little & Late. Hitler at last gave the V-2s the highest priority, but Dornberger's troubles were not over. Heinrich Himmler, head of the Gestapo, kept sniffing around Peenemünde. His men arrested Von Braun and two colleagues because they had been heard to remark that they were still interested in space flight. Spies were everywhere; Nazi favorites were plotting. The V-2s were forced into production while they were no more than delicate laboratory models. Many of them failed disastrously. When the first V-2s reached England in September 1944, they were too late to have...
...Mecklenburg, one ringing Berlin, and the third in the south, in the triangle formed by Dessau, Altenburg and Cottbus. The major fields in Mecklenburg are at Peene-münde and Rechlin-Lärz. Some 200 fighters, a few reconnaissance planes and light bombers are based at Peenemünde, along with 3,000 service troops and 600 airmen, most of them officers...