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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
One of their offices, we were located, later, after the air raid in Kölpinsee, and one airforce group, airforce design group was in Kölpinsee too.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Hmm, hmm. And that was an all airforce group?

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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm "}
Yes, all airforce uniformed, blue uniform, blue array. For instance my former deputy, Oscar Holderer, was in [[crosstalk]] this group --

{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
What, [[crosstalk]] what was his last name?

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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Holderer. H O L D E R E R

{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Holderer.

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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Yeah. And I think Hans Palaoro was with him, if I'm not mistaken.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Spell the last name --

{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Palaoro. P A L O R O. [[crosstalk]] I probably misspelled it --

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
So, [[crosstalk]] Pal, Pala -- [[crosstalk]] I've seen that name --

{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
[[slowly]] PALAORO.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Palaoro, so that would -- P A L A O R O.

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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
[[crosstalk]] Yes.

{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Ok. [[crosstalk]]

{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
In German we don't need to spell it like in English. [[laughing]] [[crosstalk]] So yes, I knew that --

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Yeah. Especially, [[crosstalk]] especially for the transcriber, it's necessary. So these were among the people who were, worked in this office, Luftwaffe Office.

{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Um, of course, I, you know, having talked to, to Mr. Heimberg, Mr. Tessman and Mr. von Tiesenhausen, I know of course that test stands also had to build Wasserfall test stands [[crosstalk]] so they had, so they had a role in this as well.

{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Yes, yes. [[crosstalk]]

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Um, and were there any other, any other groups that we've left out, I mean, is it, were there any other airforce design groups?

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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
There were certainly, the materials people were involved, because one of the questions was how to build the tanks to withstand the acid, and what to do to make the acid less aggressive to the steel.
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The tanks were steel, and I remember that they used, that they talked about Mischsäure, mixed acid with some additions to make it less aggressive.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Yeah, I think they cut it with ten percent sulfuric acid.

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{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Yes, something like it, whatever it was.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
And so they had to, the material testing laboratory had to be [[crosstalk]] involved --

{SPEAKER name="Werner Karl Dahm"}
Yes, [[crosstalk]] the materials laboratory
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Transcription Notes:
Names: https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/peenemunde-interviews-project-1989-1990 Source on Mischsäure: https://books.google.com/books?id=Sr6JtOoWghkC&pg=PA120&lpg=PA120&dq=mischsaeure+peenemunde&source=bl&ots=g_ANb5RkV9&sig=ACfU3U3MtQ5D24R1ZHKeHFwMmkcmvQutZw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLppDJ3_PiAhUv2FkKHUoqBBsQ6AEwAXoECAcQAQ#v=snippet&q=Peenemunde%20Mischs%C3%A4ure&f=false