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Raxwerke (alternatively Rax-Werke) was a major locomotive supplier based in Wiener Neustadt in Lower Austria. During World War II, the company also produced lamps for Panzer tanks and Anti-aircraft artillery.[1] Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousand slave labourers from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Serbs hall, with a height of 30 meters, was selected for V-2 rocket assembly.[2] A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when on a November 2, 1943, mission against the nearby Messerschmitt fighter aircraft plant, the US Fifteenth Air Force bombed the Raxwerke.[1] V-2 production was subsequently centralized at the Mittelwerk, and Rax test equipment was moved to the site of the Redl-Zipf brewery in central Austria where new test stands were built (code name: Schlier.)[2]
[edit] References & Notes
- ^ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team, Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, p74,171.
- ^ Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press, p207.
