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Entrance to one of the main tunnels at Mittelwerke
"The entrance to the tunnel is shaped like a parabola. The Albert Speer Touch [...] This parabola here happens to be the inspiration of a Speer disciple named Etzel Ölsch. He had noted this parabola shape around on Autobahn overpasses, sports stadiums u.s.w., and thought it was the most contemporary thing he'd ever seen [...] His parabola has a high loft to it, and the railroad tracks run in underneath, steel into shadows. Battened cloth camouflage furls back at the edges. The mountain goes sloping away above, rock cropping out here and there among the bushes and the trees." (p.298)
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From McGovern:
"Two parallel tunnels, each slightly more than a mile long, had been driven under the soft rock of a slope of the Harz, Germany's northernmost mountain range. Forty-seven smaller cross tunnels, where the machining and subassembly of parts were done, connected the two main tunnels, which served as the assembly and transportation points. The network of tunnels was illuminated by overhead lamps and ventilated by large metal ducts bringing in forced drafts of temperature-controlled air." (p.78)
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