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Peenemünde
[ pey-nuh-myn-duh ]
noun
- a village in NE Germany: German center for missile and rocket research and manufacture in World War II.
Peenemünde
/ ˌpiːnəˈmʊndə /
noun
- a village in N Germany, in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania on the Baltic coast: site of a German rocket-development centre in World War II
Example Sentences
The intelligence they gathered was instrumental in the planning of major operations such as D-Day, the Dam Busters Raid, the monitoring of the Bismarck and Tirpitz, and locating the site of the V1 and V2 rocket launching site at Peenemünde.
He was then sent to Peenemünde on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom, where he worked as a forced labourer on the V2 rocket programme, the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the statement said.
He also spent time in the subcamp of Mittelbau-Dora, as well as the infamous Bergen Belsen and Peenemünde camps.
Peenemünde is a port in northern Germany, where the River Peene meets the Baltic Sea.
The top brass at Peenemünde may have worked slave labourers to their deaths, but they had no intention of joining the fatalities.
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