"REIMAHG" - A pictorial History

[PatrickBrion]

Dear forum,

 

I am very proud to announce the outcome of a book, on which I worked a long time.

 

In 1944, the construction of one of the biggest underground aircraft factories in the Third Reich, the "REIMAHG" (Meaning "Reichsmarshall Hermann Göring", started.

The factory emerged in and around the Walpersberg Mountain near Kahla, Thuringia with the goal to produce the jet aircraft Me 262. In nearly one year a subterranean network of kilometers of tunnels, a runway on top of the mountain, massive bunkers, workshops, railroad connections and camps for over 12,000 people were built.

The book "The REIMAHG – a pictorial history" illustrates for the first time the history of this factory with over 400 pictures.

It is and should be a memory and an reminder of this history, that was nearly forgotten or wanted to be forgotten.

The author has conducted for nearly 18 years a worldwide and intense research about the history of the "REIMAHG", before publishing this book.

 

Here is a glance at the front and back page of the book, which has 274 pages. The book is in English and German.

 

If you are interested in this very interesting story, please let me know.

 

Thanks!

 

Patrick

 

 

[gwb123]

The book looks fascinating and I would love to see a copy of it.

 

Unfortunately I must remind everyone that the subject of this forum is US Military History and collecting US militaria.

 

If the book has information about the US Army's capture of the facility, please submit a post about that.

 

From the website:

 

http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlfile19056/REI...-near-Kahla.htm

 

REIMAHG only managed to produce some twenty-seven Me 262 jet fighters by the end of the war. The work was done mostly by foreign forced laborers, some 991 of whom died during their nine months at "Lachs." The U.S. Army took the site on 12 April 1945, and before turning Thüringen over to the Soviets in July, they removed enough parts to finish five Me 262s that were found on the production line.