- Raxwerke
Raxwerke (alternatively "Rax-Werke") was a major
locomotive supplier based inWiener Neustadt inLower Austria . During World War II, the company also produced lamps forPanzer tanks and Anti-aircraft artillery. [http://www.geheimprojekte.at/t_raxwerk.html] Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousandslave labour ers from theMauthausen-Gusen concentration camp . Serbs hall, with a height of 30 meters, was selected forV-2 rocket assembly. [http://www.geheimprojekte.at/t_raxwerk.html] A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when on a November 2, 1943, mission against the nearbyMesserschmitt fighter aircraft plant, the USFifteenth Air Force bombed the Raxwerke.cite book |last=Ordway |first= Frederick I, III|authorlink= |coauthors=Sharpe, Mitchell R|title=The Rocket Team|series= Apogee Books Space Series 36|year= 1979|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell|location=New York|pages=p74,171] 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 .)cite book |last=Neufeld|first=Michael J|title=The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era|year=1995|publisher=The Free Press|location=New York|isbn=|pages=p207]
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