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General Discussion Area / Secret factory
« on: 13 December 2019, 22:05:51 »
Watched a programme tonight on Yesterday channel[don't know whether it was a repeat or not] about a secret factory complex the Nazis built at the beginning of WWII.It made a third of all munitions used on the Russian front during the war.The complex was built in Poland,covering 25square kilometres of woodland and was still in production until 5 days before the Russians over ran the place at which point it was the first time the allies even knew of its existence! It produced nitro glycerine,smokeless gunpowder and millions of rounds of rifle bullets.It was also used as a secret test facility for various new weapons such as an air bomb for firing from the Nebelwerfer multi launcher and the ill fated V4 weapon which could fly at speeds of 6,200kph A really fascinating programme showing the lengths the Germans went to in construction both to keep it such a secret and also to protect individual parts of the complex from any possible explosion in any part of it.