Mittelwerk

Mittelwerk
Nordhausen, Thuringia
Interior of the tunnels
Mittelwerk
Coordinates	51°32′05″N 10°45′04″E / 51.5348°N 10.751°E / 51.5348; 10.751
Type	Subterranean bunker
Site information
Open to the public	Museum in the southern part of Tunnel A[1]
Site history
Built	Completed 1943
Built by	Mittelwerk GmbH
In use	1943–1945

Mittelwerk ([ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons.