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Raxwerke or Rax-Werke was a facility of the Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik at in . During World War II, the company also produced lamps for tanks and anti-aircraft guns. Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousand from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

(2025). 9781408821404, A&C Black.
(on 20 June 1943 Mauthausen delivered ~500 prisoners to the Rax-Werke).


Operations
Part of the Eastern Works (V-2 facilities in the Vienna-Freidrichshafen area), the 30 meter-high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected for V-2 manufacturing.

A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when, on 2 November 1943, the US Fifteenth Air Force targeted the nearby Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) plant in Operation Crossbow and hit the Raxwerke. Rax test equipment was subsequently moved to the site of the brewery in central Austria ( ) where V-2 test stands were built.

(1995). 9780029228951, The Free Press. .

was sent from Peenemünde Army Research Center in Germany to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for the anti-aircraft missile (construction was never completed).


See also
  • V-2 rocket facilities of World War II

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