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==History== On April 2, 1936, the [[Ministry of Aviation (Nazi Germany)|aviation ministry]] paid 750,000 reichsmarks to the town of [[Wolgast]]<ref name="Dornberger"> {{cite book |last=Dornberger |first=Walter |author-link=Walter Dornberger |title=V2- Der Schuss ins Weltall: Geschichte einer grossen Erfindung |year=1954 |orig-date=1952 |trans-title=V2-The Shot into Space: History of a great invention |publisher=Bechtle Verlag |location=Esslingen |pages=41,85,247 }}</ref>{{Rp|41}} for the whole Northern peninsula of the Baltic island of [[Usedom]].<ref name="Irving">{{cite book |last=Irving |first=David |author-link=David Irving |title=The Mare's Nest |year=1964 |publisher=William Kimber and Co |location=London |pages=17,139,273 }}</ref>{{Rp|17}} By the middle of 1938, the Army facility had been separated from the Luftwaffe facility and was nearly complete, with personnel moved from [[Kummersdorf]].<ref>[[WGBH-TV|WGBH]] Educational Foundation. ''[[Nova (American TV series)|NOVA]]: Hitler's Secret Weapon (The V-2 Rocket at Peenemünde)'' motion picture documentary, released in 1988 by VESTRON Video as VHS video 5273, {{ISBN|0-8051-0631-6}} (minutes 20:00-22:00)</ref> The Army Research Center (''Peenemünde Ost'')<ref name="Ordway">{{cite book |last=Ordway |first=Frederick I. III |author-link=Frederick I. Ordway III |author2=Sharpe, Mitchell R. |title=The Rocket Team |series=Apogee Books Space Series 36 |pages=36,38,79,117,141,285,288,289,291,293 }}</ref> consisted of ''Werk Ost'' and ''Werk Süd'', while ''Werk West'' (Peenemünde West) was the [[Luftwaffe]] Test Site ({{lang|de|Erprobungsstelle der Luftwaffe}}),<ref name="Neufeld">{{cite book |last=Neufeld |first=Michael J. |title=The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951 |url-access=registration |year=1995 |publisher=The Free Press |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951/page/55 55], 88,161,202,204–6,222,247 |isbn=978-0-02-922895-1 }}</ref>{{Rp|55}} one of the four test and research facilities of the Luftwaffe, with its headquarters facility at [[Rechlin–Lärz Airfield|''Erprobungsstelle Rechlin'']].
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