Underground HE 162 Production Facility

[Shay]

Neat picture. Any Idea where this is at?



Shay
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[JDK]

For a guess, a cave under Bei Mödlingen.

[Shay]

For a guess, a cave under Bei Mödlingen.

Umm, James........I don't think "Bei Mödlingen" is a place. 1st because Bei means "with". and 2nd Mödlingen doesn't google as a location. Maybe be a person's last name.

Next.

Shay
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[JDK]

Next.

Hey, I didn't say it was a good guess.

[Shay]

Next.

Hey, I didn't say it was a good guess.

hey I thought the same thing til I "Babel Fished" it

and here i thought we stumbled across a long lost picture of the coveted "Mr. Juicer 3000" production line.

Shay
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[JDK]

OK:

Construction at the Mittelwerk

From February 1945 to the first days of April 1945, a significant number of He 162 airframes were assembled at the infamous Mittelwerk subterranean slave labor workshops, but it is believed none of the airframes built there were ever completed to an airworthy state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinkel_He_162

And:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelwerk

[JDK]

From the latter link:

During February-April 1945, the Nordhausen plant built Taifun antiaircraft missiles and Heinkel He 162 jet fighters and put into operation a Liquid oxygen plant.

An estimated 20,000 inmates were worked to death at the Mittlewerk; 9000 died from exhaustion and collapse, 350 hanged (including 200 for sabotage), the remainder were shot or died from disease or starvation.[10]:72-74 6,000 bodies were found on the ground when American troops liberated Mittelbau-Dora.

[Enemy Ace]

Can't tell for certain but that looks like a GI helmet on the guy @lower right.
If the location can be pinpointed I'd be happy to drive over and get some pictures of the place.

[Shay]

Good onya James

Shay
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[armyjunk2]

This is the title when the photograph was used in Collier's Photographic History Of World War II published in 1946.........German jet plane plant was found by the US 9th Army troops 300 meters underground in a salt mine near Engels. The picture shows Heinkels 162's lined up in the assembly room

Collier's being a magazine a lot like Life Magazine for you young folks

[tom d. friedman]

sad to say that alot of that excavation work was done with jewish, gypsy, soviet p.o.w. slave labor, not to mention catholics, homosexuals, political dissidents etc. it's also sad to note that alot of the high profile industries of today such as bmw, mercedes benz, i.g. farben, & on the other side of the world.... mitsubishi, daihatsu, etc, all beefed up their wealth at the expense of human slavery as well.

[The Inspector]

Shay,
The photo reminds me of when I started @ TRAMCO back in 1987 same tooling and accomidations