Eisenhammer company
The Eisenhammer company was an air raid planned by the German Air Force against important Soviet power plants in March 1945 in order to paralyze the armaments industry.
The plan
The intended targets were twelve steam and hydroelectric power stations in the vicinity of Moscow , including at Tula , Stalinogorsk and Gorki , and the reservoir near Rybinsk . The attack should be carried out with 100 mistletoe harnesses . These were Junkers Ju 88 fighter aircraft, the cockpit of which was replaced by an explosive charge and steered to the target by a mounted Focke-Wulf Fw 190 or Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft .
Oranienburg , Rostock , Peenemünde and Rechlin were planned as starting places . The landing was to take place in the Kurland basin , at that time the easternmost area still German-occupied. However, the company was no longer carried out due to the war situation.
literature
- PW Stahl: Geheimgeschwader KG 200. Motorbuch Verlag 1984, ISBN 3-613-01034-8 .
- Roger Ford: The German secret weapons of the Second World War. Nebel Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-89555-087-6 .