Archaeological Discovery, 2019, 7, 193-210 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ad ISSN Online: 2331-1967 ISSN Print: 2331-1959 DOI: 10.4236/ad.2019.74010 Aug. 7, 2019 193 Archaeological Discovery The WWII Ringeltaube Giancarlo T. Tomezzoli Etno-Archaeological Observatory, Munich, Germany Abstract In literature, many articles, books and original documents deal separately with the WW II German project Ringeltaube giant components: Walnuß 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 to- day its total bill and between 18,100 and 20,500 the forced workers died be- cause 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. Keywords Third Reich, WW II, Ringeltaube, Bedburg, Mühldorf, Landsberg, Kaufering, Biber, Weingut, Diana, Walnuß 1. Introduction During the Casablanca Conference on January 1943, it was set the bases of the strategic Combined Bomber Offensive against the German Third Reich. Primary objective of the Offensive, culminated in the Operation Argument or Big Week on February 1944, was the German aircraft industries which represented the bigger portion of the industries involved in the war through the effort of about 400,000 workers, of which about 130,000 - 160,000 concentration camp (Kon- zentrationslager—KZ) inmates, and of about 10 Reichsmarks billions. 10,000 tons of bombs destroyed up to 75% of the aircraft plants and about 30% of the equipment. In March 1944 only one third of the expected German aircrafts was produced. This and the necessity of increasing the number of aircrafts for controlling the air space caused the formation of the Fighter Staff (Jägerstab) in charge of speed up the fighter aircraft production and motivated the German Ministry of Ar- How to cite this paper: Tomezzoli, G. T. (2019). The WWII Ringeltaube. Archaeo- logical Discovery, 7, 193-210. https://doi.org/10.4236/ad.2019.74010 Received: July 16, 2019 Accepted: August 4, 2019 Published: August 7, 2019 Copyright © 2019 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access