East Germany Peenemünde V2 Rocket base in WW2 1990 scanned in 2020

East Germany Peenemünde V2 Rocket base in WW2 1990 scanned in 2020
In World War II, the area was highly involved in the development and production of the V-2 rocket, until the production's relocation to Nordhausen. The village's docks were used for the ships which recovered V-2 wreckage from test launches over the Baltic Sea. German scientists such as Wernher von Braun, who worked at the V-2 facility, were known as "Peenemünders". The entire island was captured by the Soviet Red Army on 5 May 1945. The gas plant for the production of liquid oxygen still lies in ruins at the entrance to Peenemünde.

East Germany, Deutsche Demokratische Republik the DDR after the fall of the Wall but before reunification March 1990 and scanned in 2020.East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

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East Germany Peenemünde V2 Rocket base in WW2 1990 scanned in 2020<br />
In World War II, the area was highly involved in the development and production of the V-2 rocket, until the production's relocation to Nordhausen. The village's docks were used for the ships which recovered V-2 wreckage from test launches over the Baltic Sea. German scientists such as Wernher von Braun, who worked at the V-2 facility, were known as "Peenemünders". The entire island was captured by the Soviet Red Army on 5 May 1945. The gas plant for the production of liquid oxygen still lies in ruins at the entrance to Peenemünde.<br />
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East Germany, Deutsche Demokratische Republik the DDR after the fall of the Wall but before reunification March 1990 and scanned in 2020.East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic, was a country that existed from 1949 to 1990, the period when the eastern portion of Germany was part of the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.