Blockhaus d'Eperlecques

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Blockhaus d'Éperlecques (English: Bunker of Éperlecques, also known as Watten bunker) is a Second World War bunker or blockhaus, now part of a museum, near Saint-Omer in the Pas-de-Calais region of northeastern France. The bunker, built by Nazi Germany under the codename Kraftwerk Nord West (KNW) (Powerplant Northwest) between March 1943 and July 1944, was originally intended to be a launching facility for the V-2 (A-4) ballistic missile. It was designed to accommodate over 100 missiles at a time and to launch up to 36 daily. The facility would have incorporated a liquid oxygen factory and a bomb-proof train station to allow missiles and supplies to be delivered from production facilities in Germany. It was constructed with the aid of 2000 slave workers recruited from concentration and prisoner of war camps, as well as forcibly conscripted Frenchmen.