--------------47F3B88A6EF6911753DC00EB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mark Wade wrote: 1945 July - American forces pulled back from areas of East Germany they had occupied but were allocated to Stalin at Yalta. This included the underground slave-labour V-2 production facility at Nordhausen. 1945 August - reconstruction of the V-2 had begun by 150 German specialists lead by Chertok and Isayev at Bleicherode. Bleicherode was selected since it was well inside the Soviet zone, farther from the prying eyes of the American (Peenemuende and Nordhausen were both too visible). Well, I was born in Nordhausen. And at least in the case of Nordhausen I must disagree to Mr. Wade. The cities of Bleicherode and Nordhausen are only 20 km apart. And Bleicherode was closer to the American Sector then Nordhausen. So I think it's more likely that Bleicherode was selected as a result of the terribly bombing raids on Nordausen. More than 74% of the city had been destroyed by British Lancaster bomber on April 3rd / 4th 1945! So Bleicherode was a logical selection. Olaf Bieler --------------47F3B88A6EF6911753DC00EB Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> Mark Wade wrote:1945 July - American forces pulled back from areas of East Germany they had
occupied but were allocated to Stalin at Yalta. This included the
underground slave-labour V-2 production facility at Nordhausen.1945 August - reconstruction of the V-2 had begun by 150 German specialists
lead by Chertok and Isayev at Bleicherode. Bleicherode was selected since it
was well inside the Soviet zone, farther from the prying eyes of the
American (Peenemuende and Nordhausen were both too visible).Well, I was born in Nordhausen. And at least in the case of Nordhausen I must disagree to Mr. Wade. The cities of Bleicherode and Nordhausen are only 20 km apart. And Bleicherode was closer to the American Sector then Nordhausen. So I think it's more likely that Bleicherode was selected as a result of the terribly bombing raids on Nordausen. More than 74% of the city had been destroyed by British Lancaster bomber on April 3rd / 4th 1945! So Bleicherode was a logical selection.
Olaf Bieler