Project Riese

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The Owl Mountains in Poland is where the Germans carried out the Riese project during WW2. By carving out corridors in the mountain, they wanted to create an underground, bomb-proof, weapons production location

Project Riese – Concrete Factory Osówka, Säuferhöhen – Owl Mountains, Walbrzych Poland

The Osowka Tunnels lie in a remote area therefore the Germans constructed a concrete factory on the site, …

Posted July 28, 2023 by Patrick

Project Riese – Wlodarz, Wolfsberg – Owl Mountains, Jugowice – Poland

This complex was part of Project Riese and was the second largest tunnel complex after Osowka. situated in …

Posted August 9, 2022 (updated August 11, 2022) by Patrick

Project Riese, Dynamit Nobel AG, Mölke – Ludwikowice Kłodzkie, Poland

Near the towns of Ludwikowice Kłodzkie and Miłków in Poland lie the remains of the Dynamit Nobel A.G. …

Posted October 15, 2016 (updated August 6, 2022) by Patrick

Project Riese – Rzeczka, Dorfbach – Owl Mountains, Walim Poland

Construction on Project Riese and Rzeczka started in 1943 and the Germans kept on digging until the Russian …

Posted September 25, 2016 (updated August 6, 2022) by Patrick

Tunnel complex Osowka, Project Riese near Walbrzych

Project Riese – Osówka, Säuferhöhen – Owl Mountains, Walbrzych Poland

In 1943 Minister of Armament and War Production Albert Speer, started, to talk about project Riese with the …

Posted December 6, 2015 (updated August 11, 2022) by Patrick

Concentration camp Gross-Rosen main gate

Concentration Camp Gross-Rosen – Rogoźnica, Poland

Gross-Rosen started out as subcamp in August 1940 of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen north of Berlin. A year …

Posted November 15, 2015 (updated May 28, 2023) by Patrick