Raxwerke

RaxwerkeorRax-Werkewas a facility of theWiener Neustädter LokomotivfabrikatWiener NeustadtinLower Austria.During World War II, the company also produced lamps forPanzertanks andanti-aircraft guns.^[1]Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousandforced laborersfrom theMauthausen-Gusen concentration camp^[2]^[3](on 20 June 1943 Mauthausen delivered ~500 prisoners to the Rax-Werke).^[4]^: 189

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Part of the Eastern Works (V-2 facilities in the Vienna-Freidrichshafen area),^[5]the 30 meter-high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected forV-2manufacturing.^[6]

A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when, on 2 November 1943, the USFifteenth Air Forcetargeted the nearbyWiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF)plant inOperation Crossbowand hit the Raxwerke.^[7]Rax test equipment was subsequently moved to the site of theRedl-Zipfbrewery in central Austria (code name Schlier) where V-2 test stands were built.^[4]^[specify]

Werner Dahmwas sent fromPeenemünde Army Research Centerin Germany to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for theWasserfallanti-aircraft missile (construction was never completed).^[8]

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^Wiener Neustadt - Lokomotivfabrik und Raxwerk(in German), archived fromthe originalon 2008-04-13
^Macintyre, Ben (2012).Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies.A&C Black. p. 244.ISBN 9781408821404.
^Besser, Bruno Philipp (January 2004)."Austria's History in Space"(PDF).ffg.at.
^^a ^bNeufeld, Michael J (1995).The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era.New York: The Free Press. p.207.ISBN 9780029228951.
^Irving, David(1964).The Mare's Nest.London: William Kimber and Co. pp. 136, 144.
^"Geheimprojekte.at - Wr.Neustadt".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-04-13.Retrieved2008-06-05.
^Ordway, Frederick I III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979).The Rocket Team.Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 74, 171.
^"Peenemünde Interviews".Archived fromthe originalon 2003-10-17.Retrieved2008-10-23.^{[verification needed]}

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[1] Wiener Neustadt - Lokomotivfabrik und Raxwerk(in German), archived fromthe originalon 2008-04-13

[2] Macintyre, Ben (2012).Double Cross: The True Story of The D-Day Spies.A&C Black. p. 244.ISBN 9781408821404.

[3] Besser, Bruno Philipp (January 2004)."Austria's History in Space"(PDF).ffg.at.

[Neufeld-4] Neufeld, Michael J (1995).The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era.New York: The Free Press. p.207.ISBN 9780029228951.

[Irving-5] Irving, David(1964).The Mare's Nest.London: William Kimber and Co. pp. 136, 144.

[6] "Geheimprojekte.at - Wr.Neustadt".Archived fromthe originalon 2008-04-13.Retrieved2008-06-05.

[Ordway-7] Ordway, Frederick I III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979).The Rocket Team.Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. 74, 171.

[8] "Peenemünde Interviews".Archived fromthe originalon 2003-10-17.Retrieved2008-10-23.^{[verification needed]}

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