TITLE:
The WWII Ringeltaube
AUTHORS:
Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli
KEYWORDS:
Third Reich, WW II, Ringeltaube, Bedburg, Mühldorf, Landsberg, Kaufering, Biber, Weingut, Diana, Walnuß
JOURNAL NAME:
Archaeological Discovery,
Vol.7 No.4,
August
7,
2019
ABSTRACT: In literature, many articles, books and original documents deal separately with the WW II German project Ringeltaube giant components: Walnu? I, Weingut I, Weingut II. In doing so, they highlight the financial effort and the forced workers’ sufferings involved in the construction of each of them. This article dealing with Ringeltaube as a whole, estimates at 1,722,453,684$ of today its total bill and between 18,100 and 20,500 the forced workers died because of Ringeltaube. In addition, the architectural details, the constructional advancement and the preservation state of each component today at more than seventy years from the end of the WW II are presented.