Raxwerke

During World War II, the company also produced lamps for Panzer tanks and anti-aircraft guns.

[1] Two Raxwerke plants employed several thousand forced laborers from the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp[2][3] (on 20 June 1943 Mauthausen delivered ~500 prisoners to the Rax-Werke).

[4]: 189 Part of the Eastern Works (V-2 facilities in the Vienna-Freidrichshafen area),[5] the 30 meter-high Serbs hall at the Raxwerke was selected for V-2 manufacturing.

[6] A few V-2 center sections had been assembled by the Raxwerke when, on 2 November 1943, the US Fifteenth Air Force targeted the nearby Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke (WNF) plant in Operation Crossbow and hit the Raxwerke.

[4][specify] Werner Dahm was sent from Peenemünde Army Research Center in Germany to the Raxwerke for the construction of an engine test stand for the Wasserfall anti-aircraft missile (construction was never completed).