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Transcription: [00:02:45]
{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
From your side or from what people said and obviously you only came in 1942 so you can't say much about earlier periods.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
Right.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
That the relationship was always friendly.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
And there wasn't a sense of rivalry or something like that.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
No. This again is a question that you could ask Tessmann.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Mmhmm.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
Because Tessmann was sent relatively only Peenemunde for planning purposes.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Um. So when you-- From what you were saying, it sounds like you were responsible for construction of that test stand for Wasserfall.

{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
For the science, yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
And then you were moved on to some other job after that?

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
Yeah, then, then came the mass production of the A4. And uh, you know we had, we had only that one test stand at Peenemunde for combustion chambers and we knew that uh, one test stand was not enough. And...they even-I cannot tell you what was, what was planned. At Wiener Neustadt, you may have heard that word.

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{SPEAKER name="Michael Neufeld"}
Mmhmm.

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{SPEAKER name="Karl Heimberg"}
But I don't believe that the test stand were planned there. Uh, but again Tessmann could tell you, because he was sent out to find out where our possibilities and I believe Tessmann was even involved with liaison.
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This liaison was um, slate quarry and uh, you had perpendicular walls. You could say that's ideal for test stands. You do not need a chet deflector. For the chet deflector you need water. So if you would had a perpendicular wall you would put your test stand on top, you wouldn't need a deflector. And uh...

Transcription Notes:
I don't know what he means by "chet deflector" I don't think I have the correct word written down for that. I also tried to figure out what a "chet deflector" is, but can find no meaning so I am leaving it.