The Mittelwerke, which produced nearly 6000 missiles, was located beneath these
hills in the Harz Mountains.
"Nordhausen in the morning; the lea is a green salad, crisp with raindrops.
Everything is fresh, washed. The Harz hump up all around, dark slopes bearded to the
tops with spruce, fir and larch. High-gabled houses, sheets of water reflecting the
sky, muddy streets. . .Meadows and logged-off wedges up on the mountainsides flow with
mottled light as rainclouds blow away over Thuringia. Castles perch high over the
town, sailing in and out of torn clouds." (p.289)
