German Village (Dugway Proving Ground)

German Village. In 1943 the US military tested incendiary bombs and chemical warfare agents in the German-Japanese Village , here the AN-M69 - Napalm bomb .

In 1943, the US Corps worked with technicians from the Standard Oil Development Company on the Dugway Proving Ground test site in Utah to create what is known as the German Village , a realistic replica of German tenements to test the effect of incendiary bombs on this design.

Part of the system was based on the typical Rhineland construction method, the other part on more north German construction methods. Among the experts who provided planning and information for the buildings and their fittings were the German architects and engineers Erich Mendelsohn , Konrad Wachsmann , Paul Zucker , Hans Knoll and Georg Hartmüller , who had to flee into exile in America before the National Socialists .

The USAAF also tested the effectiveness of the incendiary bombs to be used on Japanese- style buildings in the so-called "Japanese village" on the Dugway Proving Ground.

In the 1950s, the buildings of the "German Village" were used to test biological and chemical weapons.