Code names of Nazi secret objects

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During the Second World War , construction projects that were important to the war effort were usually given code names . This affected both above-ground structures and underground relocations. Many of the objects were not completed. Animal and plant names as well as first names were mainly used. The focus was on the U relocation program of the Jägerstab (underground production of fighter aircraft such as the Me 262 ), the A4 program (underground rocket production ) and the Geilenberg program (underground relocation of hydrogenation plants ).

System of the aliases at RMfRuK ( Reich Ministry for Armaments and War Production ):

Natural caves Terms from the coinage
Old shaft systems Animal names of all kinds
Old tunnel systems Fish and amphibian names
New tunnel systems Geological designations
Former bunkers Terms from botany
Deep basement Female first names
New bunkers Male first names
Traffic tunnel Bird names

But there were also other encryption systems such as capital letters or numbers. The Organization Todt used u. a. also a camouflage name system made up of river names (e.g. Elbe, Oker, Weser, Aller) and animal names plus dwelling (e.g. bear cave, eagle's nest). (Incorrect) company names were also used as aliases. The same object could have several names (e.g. for the SS-IKL and the RfRuK ).

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D.

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F.

G

H

I, J

  • Polecat - see also "Bulldog"
  • Jakob (also Jacob): planned in June 1944 for aviation fuel and carburetor fuel in an underground plant, in Hirschfeld and in Berbersdorf , not implemented

K

L.

M.

N

  • Nautilus - (underground relocation, Wellnitz sandstone caves (Velenice u Zákup), Czech Republic)

O

  • Ör - (underground relocation of the company Rinkel GmbH Feinmechanische armaments equipment from Göttingen to the natural Jetten cave near Hörden am Harz ; however, production was no longer started)
  • Okapi - subterranean relocation of the machine factory Hamel AG, Chemnitz to the Merkur and Pluto shafts of the Gersdorfer Steinkohlen-Aktien-Verein in Gersdorf
  • Olga - (Bunkered message center of the special building project III in the Jonastal near Crawinkel for a possible Führer headquarters in Thuringia)
  • Ortrud - for Navy in the Heidecksburg Rudolstadt
  • Oven - see badger above . - Small distillation systems for the production of fuel. They were so small that they could be housed in tunnels and quarries. In them, petrol and diesel were distilled from crude oil. The residues from this process were further processed in “Dachs” hydrogenation plants. The gasoline was mostly cracked in another plant d. H. further split (Appendix "Jakob")
  • Furnace I & II small distillation systems from Deurag-Nerag in Extertal near Rinteln (Gutshof Börgerhof )
  • Furnace III & IV small distillation systems from Deurag-Nerag in Brunkensen (Glenetal).

P

  • Pekten - Rentschenbruch near Probstzella for Wirths-Bach & Co. (rejected), also intended as a clothing store for the Wehrmacht. Use of Franz Itting was prevented. (Concrete closure of the tunnel)
  • Pikrit - underground production Arado Ar 234 near Krölpa
  • Misdroy pumping station - V3 test area Laatziger Ablage on Wolin

Q

R.

S.

T

U

  • Elm - explosives factory near Christianstadt (Krzystkowice) in Niederlausitz

V

W.

  • Waldhof - test facility for the production of explosives by Eibia GmbH in the former municipality of Bomlitz
  • Walnut II - partially underground armament bunker of Messerschmitt AG near Igling for the manufacture of the Me 262 fighter aircraft (not completed)
  • Walo I - Research facility for the production of explosives by Eibia GmbH near Bomlitz
  • Walo II - oldest of the three large powder factories of Eibia GmbH near Benefeld (then Bomlitz , today Walsrode )
  • Waterworks - Bunker positions for the assembly and launching of V1 or V2 in France, e.g. B. in Siracourt
  • Weimar - weather code
  • Weingut I - partially underground armament bunker of Messerschmitt AG in Mühldorfer Hart for the production of the Me 262 fighter aircraft (not completed)
  • Weingut II - partially underground armament bunker of Messerschmitt AG near Kaufering for the manufacture of the Me 262 fighter aircraft (completed)
  • Weser - second of the three large powder factories of Eibia GmbH near Dörverden
  • Wetterfrosch - Seyring Air Base
  • Wilhelm, Wansleben Concentration Camp ( Wansleben )
  • Wiese -, with the code names Mansfeld, Biber II, A 6 and Wilhelm. Mimoyecques underground V3 launching system, 13 km southwest of Calais
  • Wolfsschanze - Führer headquarters near Rastenburg
  • Desert - industrial complex used to extract fuel from oil shale as part of the Geilenberg program .

Z

  • Zander - (underground relocation of the Zeiss-Ikon works Dresden , lime works Nentmannsdorf )
  • Wren - acoustically controlled torpedo of the Kriegsmarine
  • Zechstein - (New excavation in sandstone for Weserflug GmbH from Bremen , Rabstein near Böhmisch Kamnitz (Ceská Kamenice), Czech Republic)
  • Zeisig - Spark plug production by Robert Bosch in a railway tunnel between Treis and Bruttig on the unfinished right-hand Moselle route
  • Zeolite - inclusion of the “Oven” and “Schwalbe” projects in a new tunnel construction to be built in the Brockbachtal near Ibbenbüren
  • Cement B1 - 2 huge tunnels were built in Ebensee which were initially intended for the Peenemünde Army Research Center as a production facility for the A4 program (V2).
  • Zingel - see also "Steinbock II" near Unterloquitz
  • Tin stone - for Junkers later fuels and liquid O 2 in Kohnstein ( Lower Saxony )
  • Electric eel - wind tunnel in the Ötztal - the tunnel runs right through the Amberg.
  • Zope - underground production facility in the Cimena power station tunnel southwest of Chivasso on the Turin – Chivasso road . Ball bearing production by Officine di Villar Perosa.

See also

literature

  • Henry Hatt: Code name Capricorn II. BoD, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8423-7510-9 .
  • Henry Hatt: Hitler's Ignored Secret Objects. BoD, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7322-9376-6 .
  • Henry Hatt: Ignored Hitler's Secret Objects. Hattenhauer, 1995, ISBN 3-930988-00-3 .
  • Henry Hatt: Code name tadpole. Hattenhauer, 2005, ISBN 3-930988-15-1 .
  • Martin Weinmann (ed.), With contributions by Anne Kaiser and Ursula Krause-Schmitt: The National Socialist Camp System. 4th edition. (1st & 2nd edition. 1990, DNB 947535497 , 3rd edition. 1999). Two thousand and one, Frankfurt 2001.
  • 2500 companies. Slave labor in the Nazi Camp System. ( Memento of December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), state of knowledge at the beginning of the 1950s, for the new research see Benz & Distel, series Der Ort des Terrors. Beck, Munich 2005 ff. (English)
  • Hans Walter Wichert (Ed.): List of aliases of German underground buildings of the Second World War. 2nd Edition. Joh.Schulte, 1999, ISBN 3-9803271-4-0 .
  • Kai O. Arzinger: Tunnels in the rock and oil for the empire. 2nd Edition. Mönnig, 1997, ISBN 3-922885-70-5 .
  • Christel Focken: FHQ “Führer Headquarters” Riese (Silesia). Helios, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-63-2 .
  • Hans-Josef Hansen: Felsennest - The forgotten leader's headquarters in the Eifel. Construction, use, destruction. 2nd, expanded new edition. Helios Verlag, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-21-2 .
  • Rainer Karlsch, Raymond G. Stokes: Factor Oil. The mineral oil industry in Germany 1859–1974. CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50276-8 .
  • Book of aliases, Appendix 8 to the supplement to the H.Dv. 427, (Protection of communications in the army), 1944, ISBN 978-3-7504-5176-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frederic Gümmer: The role of underground relocation in German armaments production 1943–1945. GRIN-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-92393-4 ; Tab. 2 “Code name scheme d. Untertageverlagerung ”p. 32, from Google Books , accessed March 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Klaus Böhm: The Organization Todt in action 1939–1945, depicted according to theaters of war on the basis of the field post numbers. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1987, ISBN 3-7648-1732-1 , S. XV.
  3. ↑ The Dachs facility 1. on: porta.bergmann82.de
  4. ↑ U-relocation Lohmen, Herrenleite tunnel access - Carnallit / Rogenstein / Dachs building 7
  5. ↑ Giorgio Danilo Cocconcelli: factories tunnel. Le officine aeronautiche Caproni e FIAT nell'Alto Garda 1943–1945 , Apostolo Giorgo, Milan 2002 ISBN 978-88-87261-11-0 . Pp. 66-67
  6. ↑ http://www.panoramio.com/photo/55780852
  7. ↑ Frederic Gümmer: The role of underground relocation in German armaments production 1943–1945. GRIN-Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-92393-4 , pp. 67-74 & p. 94. (BMW Flugmotorenbau-GmbH)
  8. ↑ Franconian sparkling wine - guided tour of the gallery. Retrieved January 4, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Giorgio Danilo Cocconcelli: factories tunnel. Le officine aeronautiche Caproni e FIAT nell'Alto Garda 1943–1945 . Apostolo Giorgo, Milan 2002, ISBN 978-88-87261-11-0 . Pp. 65-67
  10. ^ Peggau - alias "Marble". ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to: secret projects at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geheimprojekte.at
  11. ↑ Fuel production in the "Ofen I & II" distillation plant, Bögerhof. on: relict.com
  12. ↑ Fuel production in the "Ofen III & IV" distillation plant, Brunkensen. on: relict.com
  13. ↑ The former swimming pool. on: brunkensen.de
  14. ^ Underground aircraft parts production "Rebhuhn" / Werner Lange GmbH. ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: untergrundosnabrueck.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.untergrundosnabrueck.de
  15. ↑ Jonastal Documentation Center at the Arnstadt locomotive shed
  16. ↑ Giorgio Danilo Cocconcelli: factories tunnel. Le officine aeronautiche Caproni e FIAT nell'Alto Garda 1943–1945 , Apostolo Giorgo, Milan 2002 ISBN 978-88-87261-11-0 . P. 61.67
  17. ^ Underground hydrogenation plant “Zeolith” / Nerag GmbH. on: untergrundosnabrueck.de
  18. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.geheimprojekte.at
  19. ↑ Giorgio Danilo Cocconcelli: factories tunnel. Le officine aeronautiche Caproni e FIAT nell'Alto Garda 1943–1945 , Apostolo Giorgo, Milan 2002 ISBN 978-88-87261-11-0 . Pp. 60.67