Editing Peenemünde Army Research Center (section)

==Evacuation==
As with the move of the V-2 Production Works to the [[Mittelwerk]], the complete withdrawal of the development of guided missiles was approved by the Army and SS in October 1943.<ref name="Neufeld. 205">Neufeld. p205</ref> On August 26, 1943, at a meeting in [[Albert Speer]]'s office, [[Hans Kammler]] suggested moving the A-4 Development Works to a proposed underground site in Austria.<ref>Neufeld. 204</ref> After a site survey in September by Papa Riedel and Schubert, Kammler chose the code name '''Zement''' (''cement'') for it in December,<ref name="Neufeld. 205" /> and work to blast a cavern into a cliff in [[Ebensee]] near [[Lake Traunsee]] commenced in January 1944.<ref name="Klee" />{{Rp|109}} To build the tunnels, a [[Ebensee concentration camp|concentration camp]] (a sub unit of [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp|Mauthausen-Gusen]]) was erected in the vicinity of the planned production sites. In early 1944, construction work started for the test stands and launching pads in the Austrian [[Alps]] (code name '''Salamander'''), with target areas planned for the [[Tatra Mountains]], the [[Arlberg]] range, and the area of the [[Ortler]] mountain.<ref>Irving. 123,238,300; Klee & Merk. 109</ref> Other evacuation locations included:
* Hans Lindenmayr's valve laboratory near [[Friedland, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern|Friedland]] moved to a castle near the village of [[Leutenberg]], {{cvt|10|km|0}} south of Saalfeld near the Bavarian border.<ref name="Ordway" />{{Rp|293}}
* the materials testing laboratory moved to an air base at [[Anklam]]
* the wind tunnels moved to [[Kochel]] (then after the war, to the [[White Oak, Maryland]]-located U. S. Navy's [[Naval Ordnance Laboratory]])<ref name="Hunt">{{cite book |last=Hunt |first=Linda |title=Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990 |year=1991 |publisher=St.Martin's Press |location=New York |isbn=0-312-05510-2 |page=31 }}</ref>
* Engine testing and calibration to [[Lehesten]]<ref>Reuter, Claus. The V2 and the German, Russian and American Rocket Program. May 2000. S.R. Research & Publishing. 978-1894643054. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sr6JtOoWghkC&q=+Lehesten&pg=PA1 pages 114-115; 137]</ref>

;Thuringia
For people being relocated from Peenemünde, the new organization was to be designated ''Entwicklungsgemeinschaft Mittelbau'' ({{langx |en|Mittelbau Development Company}})<ref name="Ordway" />{{Rp|291}} and Kammler's order to relocate to [[Thuringia]] arrived by teleprinter on January 31, 1945.<ref name="Ordway" />{{Rp|288}} On February 3, 1945, at the last meeting at Peenemünde held regarding the relocation, the HVP consisted of A-4 development/ modification (1940 people), [[Aggregate (rocket family)#A4b.2FA9|A-4b]] development (27), [[Wasserfall]] and [[Taifun (rocket)|Taifun]] development (1455), support and administration (760).<ref name="Ordway" />{{Rp|289}} The first train departed on February 17 with 525 people en route to Thuringia (including [[Bleicherode]], [[Sangerhausen (district)]], and [[Bad Sachsa]]) and the evacuation was complete in mid-March.<ref name="Dornberger" />{{Rp|247}}

;Occupied Poland
Another reaction to the [[aerial bomb]]ing was the creation of a back-up research test range, the [[Blizna V-2 missile launch site]] in southeastern Poland. Carefully camouflaged, this secret facility was built by 2000 prisoners from the concentration camp at the [[SS-Truppenübungsplatz Heidelager]].<ref>''Rockets and People'', Boris Chertok</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2022}} The Polish resistance [[Home Army]] (''Armia Krajowa'') captured an intact V2 rocket here in 1943. It had been launched but didn't explode and was later [[Operation Most III|retrieved intact]] from the [[Bug River]] and transferred secretly to London.<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/forgottenCamps/Camps/PustEng.html |title=Pustkow Concentration Camp (Poland) |access-date=May 15, 2013 |website=jewishgen.org |archive-date=March 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070314133712/http://www.jewishgen.org/Forgottencamps/Camps/PustEng.html |url-status=live }}</ref>