Built by Krupp in 1941, the Schwerer Gustav railway gun was the Nazis' "miracle weapon" that could blast through 20 feet of concrete from nearly 30 miles away.
One thing stood before the Nazis — literally — as they prepared to launch war on Europe: France’s Maginot Line. Built in the 1930s, the defensive line stretched for almost 300 miles and included fortresses, gun batteries, bunkers, and minefields. To penetrate it, the Nazis developed a Wunderwaffe (“miracle weapon”) called Schwerer Gustav.
The biggest gun in the world, Schwerer Gustav weighed 1,490 tons and could fire seven-ton shells at targets almost 30 miles away. It probably could have torn the Maginot Line to shreds — if it had been finished in time. The fearsome weapon missed that deadline, but it was used later on in the war.
So what was the Schwerer Gustav gun, the towering railway weapon that required 2,000 men to operate it? How was it used during World War II — and why did it disappear in the middle of the conflict?
The Development Of The Schwerer Gustav Gun
By the 1930s, the concept of super-weapons like the Schwerer Gustav had been around for a while. The Russians built the 39-ton Tsar Cannon in 1586, the British constructed the 47-ton Mallet’s Mortar in 1857, and the Germans unveiled the 47-ton “Big Bertha” in 1914. (Of these three enormous weapons, however, only Big Bertha was used in conflict.)
By the 1930s, the Nazis started dreaming up a similar weapon that they could use to break through France’s Maginot Line. The gun to do so was designed by Krupp, a steel company based in Essen. Adolf Hitler was interested in its development — he asked about it during a 1936 visit to the company — but developing the gun presented problems.
In order to break through the Maginot Line, the weapon’s shells would have to be powerful enough to smash through 22 feet of reinforced concrete and at least three feet of steel. It would have to be, in other words, a gargantuan weapon unlike anything that had ever been built before.
But Krupp was up to the challenge. Though they missed the deadline to invade France (the Nazis ended up going around the Maginot Line, through Belgium, in May 1940), the Nazis’ new weapon was ready for testing by the end of 1941. It was called Schwerer Gustav, Schwerer meaning “heavier” in German, and Gustav being a nod to Krupp’s former director, Gustav Krupp.
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By the time the Schwerer Gustav was complete at the end of 1941 — it cost 10 million marks to build — it was more like a small building than a gun. From the ground up the Schwerer Gustav was almost four stories tall. The weapon weighed 1,490 tons, and it was 20 feet wide and a 140 feet long.
It had a caliber of 31 inches, and it was able to hit targets roughly 30 miles away. Its barrel alone was nearly 100 feet long, and Popular Mechanics reported in 2004 that it was able to fire two kinds of shells: a 10,584-pound high-explosive shell and a 16,540-pound concrete-piercing shell.
The Schwerer Gustav was so large, in fact, that it required hundreds of men to operate it. (Some sources say 500 men were needed; others claim as many as 2,000.) It took several men just to load the gun’s enormous shells, and the weapon was so large that it could not travel in one piece.
World War II Database explains that the gun was actually transported in five units: the breech ring and block, the barrel split in two halves, the barrel jacket, the cradle, and the trunnions.
Though some sources claim that the Schwerer Gustav was one of two such guns built, World War II Database reports that this is untrue. This misconception likely came from the German artillerymen who mockingly called the weapon “Dora,” leading to the belief that two guns (Schwerer Gustav and Dora) were built. In fact, they may have been one and the same.
Although Schwerer Gustav was not ready in time to breach the French defenses, it was used in battle during World War II.
How The Weapon Was Used During WWII
Though the Schwerer Gustav gun was not used to break through the Maginot Line, the Nazis still wanted to test out their mighty new weapon. In mid-1942, a team of over 1,000 men took three weeks to assemble the gun. Then, it was off to join the siege of Sevastopol.
Between June and July, Schwerer Gustav rained down destruction on the besieged Soviet city. World War II Database reports that it fired about 50 of its shells, one of which purportedly smashed through 100 feet of earth before blowing up an underground Soviet ammunition store.
By the end of the siege, Sevastopol lay in smoldering ruins. The Axis powers had won a decisive victory.
But the biggest gun in the world may have never been used again.
The German Army transported the mighty weapon to Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg), but Soviet forces were able to repel the Germans before they could use their new Wunderwaffe. In 1944, it was lugged to Poland for use during the Warsaw Uprising, but the resistance may have been crushed by the time it arrived.
After that, the powerful Nazi weapon vanished from the record.
It’s unclear exactly what happened to the Schwerer Gustav. It was most likely scrapped by the Nazis sometime in 1944. By then, the super-weapon may have simply posed more problems than advantages.
A Weapon That Was Perhaps Too Powerful
Though the Schwerer Gustav gun could wreak destruction on its targets, it was, ultimately, an impractical weapon. It required incredible manpower to operate, and during battle, it was hard to spare so many soldiers.
Furthermore, it took the German Army multiple days just to move the giant railway gun. This was hard enough. Moving it covertly was next to impossible. The gun was huge and difficult to hide from planes, which meant that the Allies could track its movements unless the Luftwaffe had total air control.
Finally, maintenance and the cost of shells for the Schwerer Gustav were expensive and hard to justify when there were smaller, more covert tanks readily available.
And so the Schwerer Gustav, the 10-million-mark Nazi dream, disappeared from the battlefield. This Wunderwaffe ended up being less miraculous than the Nazis had hoped. Just three years after it was first deployed in Sevastopol, Germany unconditionally surrendered.
After learning about the Schwerer Gustav, the biggest gun in the world, check out these other astonishing weapons invented by the Nazis. Then, read about the Landkreuzer P. 1000, a German tank so large it couldn’t even be built.


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Thus says Owen Pallett in an interesting article (with a terrible title): “Awesome Music.” It starts as a discussion on why classical music is perceived as “old person” music, and then the round-tablers go to some interesting places on the role and nature of “classical” music now.
I like Pallett’s train of thought, but come to think of it, almost all the composers I know here in New Haven are cranking out albums as a matter of course. Then again, my tastes run to the free improv/avante garde crowd.
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faculty member Robert Kormos, MD, Director of the Artificial Heart and Thoracic Transplant Program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and a board member of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. "If the claims prove to be a reality, they have a device that has a substantive benefit over the current technology that exists."
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CARMAT SAS is an innovative medtech start-up company that has been spun out of the collaboration between the renowned French surgeon Professor Alain Carpentier (scientific founder) and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company. Together through the implementation of biomaterials and cutting-edge technologies, they have constructed an artificial heart. CARMAT intends to market a fully implantable artificial heart that will be able to provide renewed hope and quality of life to the hundreds of thousands of patients suffering in the aftermath of a massive heart attack or with late-stage heart failure and for whom standard drug therapy, ventricular assistance, and/or a heart transplant have failed or are not possible.
Illustration: European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company.
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Covington & Burling LLP landlord denied tax relief
It appears the owners of 1201 Pennsylvania Ave. NW could be in a bit more of a bind than just losing their anchor tenant.
This morning I reported that tenant representation firm Studley Inc. has been tapped to help Covington & Burling LLP sublease 270,000 square feet in the building, most of it hitting the market in June 2014 when the law firm moves to new digs under construction at CityCenterDC. Despite the pending loss of a major rent-paying tenant, D.C. has denied a claim by 1201 Penn’s owners to lower the building’s tax assessment.
The building’s owner, an affiliate of New York’s Sentinel Real Estate Corp., appealed to the D.C. Real Property Tax Commission to lower the assessment from $170.5 million because of the building's “declining net income, age, need for major renovations, and the fact that the tenant occupying a substantial portion of the building will vacate in 2016,” according to a summary the commission’s Oct. 16 hearing, released this week.
Sentinel representatives contend that the property will need major renovations and upgrades when Covington moves out. The commission didn’t buy Sentinel’s argument that the move would bring down the building’s value. It rejected the appeal in a ruling dated Nov. 5. The commission concluded that the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue had factored in the lease-up costs and rent shortfalls from Covington’s exit into the property’s value.
In addition, the tax office said the building’s market lease rate of $46 per square foot is reasonable given the property's location and existing leases in the building. What’s more, the commission noted Sentinel’s income and expense forms don't list any planned renovations. I'm still waiting to hear from someone at Sentinel.
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At least five members of the Melbourne University Students Union governing council have resigned amid fears they could be held legally responsible for deals that may cost the union millions of dollars.
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ALP Club president Ben Barnett, who has resigned from the council, said he had become increasingly alarmed about possible personal liability for a deal in which he had had no role.
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Last year's union president, Darren Ray, and the general secretary, Tim Lisle-Williams, signed the Optima contract in December. It contained a clause requiring the university to "irrevocably, fully and unconditionally" pay Optima if the union defaulted. The deal has been criticised by the union's lawyers and consultants, who have advised the union to renegotiate or withdraw from it.
The university's 21-member governing body and its vice-chancellor, Alan Gilbert, said they were not told of the deal and wanted nothing to do with it.
But documents seen by The Age reveal the union is seeking legal advice from law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler on whether the union can make the university cover its debts to Optima if it defaults.
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A similar investigation of the union by Ernst & Young was ordered by the university.
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As a defensive-minded coach, Rex Ryan has a motto: You can never have too many corners. With that thought in mind, the New York Jets selected Boise State cornerback Kyle Wilson with their first-round pick, the 29th overall.
Wilson was projected as a top-15 talent on many draftboards, but he slipped to the bottom of the round -- and the Jets gladly broke his fall.
"In this case, the board and the need aligned," general manager Mike Tannenbaum said.
Wilson, from Piscataway, N.J., is an aggressive cornerback, regarded as an excellent team leader. He can be too aggressive at times, but he had four interceptions last season. With Darrelle Revis and Antonio Cromartie on the team, Wilson will be used as the nickel corner in the slot.
He's also an outstanding punt returner. That, too, fills a need for the Jets.
"We were looking at that board and I just said, 'Hang in there, hang in there,'" Ryan said. "And that's exactly what happened."
Wilson had 11 interceptions at Boise State and returned three punts for scores during his career. He became a starter in the second half of his freshman season and helped lead Boise State to a Fiesta Bowl victory over TCU to cap his college career.
"To be honest, I feel right at home," Wilson said. "I couldn't have dreamt it any better. It's pretty surreal right now."
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Boston Mayor Thomas Menino introduced the topic by talking about the importance of immigrants in Boston. He noted the importance of immigrants to Boston’s economy, specifically in neighborhood businesses, hospitals and restaurants. The ILC-commissioned research about neighborhood businesses, the health care industry, and leisure and hospitality supports this.
Menino concluded saying, “Immigration is not a Democrat or Republican issue, it’s an American issue. It goes to the heart of what we want our country to be. We should be less concerned about where people come from and more concerned about where they are going.”
Bloomberg expressed concern that the U.S. could lose its superiority in higher education because foreign students are educated here and sent back to their home countries to pursue their research, saying, “We’re taking the best and the brightest. They get their PhDs, or their masters, and then we send them overseas. They can’t teach here, they can’t do their research here.”
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We recently had the pleasure of speaking to Rupa about her debut album, its influences and the meaning of "world music" in our modern age.
Hi Rupa, Do you think your sound reflects the City you live in?
Hi! Absolutely. San Francisco is a place of political engagement, broad cultural and ethnic diversity, geographic beauty and celebration of difference. I love the characters who are drawn here, the way we all live together and learn from each other. It has been very important for me to live and work in an environment where voicing one's political beliefs is accepted and welcomed. There is not as much of a social stigma that is as deeply entrenched when crossing social or economic lines.
The Mission District, where I spend most of my time, has a vibrant collection of people from all over the world, the Philippines and Latin America in particular, and many artists as well. This place of gathering of all types of people all living in the same place has affected me deeply. I am inspired by people I meet walking on the street. I'm inspired by the sounds of the street. I'm inspired by the physical beauty of the city, the light, the fog, the proximity to the ocean. San Francisco is the big casserole dish in which everything is put in my life to create the stuff that is coming out.
I suppose your life and the places you've lived have influenced your music - what experiences do you draw on when writing?
My music comes from what happens when you are raised by a father who loved Johnny Cash, Roger Miller and old Indian Ghazals and a mother who was obsessed with Chopin and the Beatles and was on her way to becoming a classical pianist before she was distracted from her studies by her arranged marriage to my father. These different experiences have found their way into my identity, allowing me to feel at home nowhere in particular and everywhere. That combined with living in the US on a steady diet of Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and the Police and then dragged to France where I feasted my ears on Serge Gainsbourg and Georges Brassens brings about what you hear today.
Your band (The Fishes) has evolved around you - Ed has been with you the longest but what do the Fishes (as a collective) bring to your music and how does having the band affect your writing?
The band is crucial to developing the full sound and realization of these particular songs and as the members are juggled for various reasons (one accordionist cannot travel because of an ill parent, another cellist wants to get a PhD in computational ecological modelling), the music changes as each different musician brings their own voice, personality and presence. My job as the composer is affected by who I know I am playing with, the expression I have come to learn about from each of these amazing musicians. My role is as an architect of the songs, creating enough structure to give it the force and shape I am trying to create and enough space to allow the voices of the players in to make their own mark. It's a combination of the structure of folk-pop and the fluidity of jazz. I often see my role as a theater director, once the lyrics, chords, main melodies and shape are put into place, I bring the song to the band and we literally play it. Time and again. And it's different every time. This live element makes this project incredibly exciting for me and for the musicians I play with, and the audience who never hears the same show twice. We are not trying to replicate what we have recorded. We are trying to communicate in real time.
I think your sound fits in with a global outlook, helped by the internet, where borders are only virtual. Are you excited at the prospect of releasing your music around the world and how do you think the world will take to your music?
I think what you say is interesting--the role of the internet on creating a seemingly border-less world. I am incredibly excited to see the world through music, to meet more people, to learn. It has been a few years since I have travelled like this because I had to hunker down with my medical studies. This is an incredible gift, to be able to travel and bring one's music to different people, to meet different folks from all walks of life, to share in a cultural exchange with other artists, to open one's eyes to the realities that are affecting us all across divides in the current geopolitical situation we find ourselves. I am honored and thrilled. The band is like a family--we get along really well. We are all lowkey, very open-minded and adventurous. It makes touring feel like a family vacation without the frustrated teenager angst. I know we will all be greatly affected by who we meet and what we do. I am excited to see how that shapes the music. I hope people who hear the music will feel the common deepest humanistic threads. I hope they will celebrate with us and teach us what we need to know.
You are in the process of taking your show around America and Europe - how have the shows been going and do you like playing in different countries to different cultures?
The audiences bring their own culture to each show. I remember the first time we played in Switzerland, we were surprised by how different the audience was from our typical wild audience in San Francisco. We adjust our expectations--we have learned it is best to really have no expectation, to discover each audience along the way and find where we can take them. It's a total adventure.
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Packing my bags, getting my guitars tuned up and ready, finishing a few dictations at the hospital,making sure my rent is paid, kissing my partner, my family and friends and hitting the road...
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Another piece of advice is to avoid arguing about trivial matters. Avoiding arguments will make it easier to diffuse any disagreements by sharing your concerns and worries. Humour is a great way to avoid unnecessary arguments. While there may be some disagreements in a relationship, this is normal. It is important that you remember that no relationship can be perfect. Healthy relationships are those where both partners can freely share their worries and concerns, without getting into unnecessary arguments.
One of the most effective ways to build a healthy relationship is through open communication. It is important for new couples to make it a habit to communicate openly with one another. If their partner does something that makes them uncomfortable, it is important to speak up and let them know so that it can be fixed immediately. Be honest about your boundaries, and set them. By doing so, you can deal with any potential problems before they get out of hand.


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made from reclaimed fibers and timbers.
How cool is that?
We'll talk more about that tomorrow during the interview, though :)
Let's take a look at some of the smaller items I got!
First up is a basket filled with napkins and silverware,
and some plates filled with delicious treats.
All of these are lovely scale and well made,
plus, as always,
It's covered in a lovely finish, with a chalk board front so you can add a message...
(can you tell I don't have chalk? 0_0)
and for $2, it's a steal!
How cute are the little designer bags that can hold the smaller products?
Not to mention the little step stool to help shorter members of the family reach the tabletop?
The tiny recipe books that come with some of their items have real pages inside!
I think I'm all ready to start some holiday baking!!
unfortunately, Poppy hijacked them.
Poppy: These pillows smell lovely...
You can get the pillows scented if you want (and they smell wonderful)
but if you have allergies, the scent can be left out. :)
my experience with Blinkydoll's Boutique has been amazing.
They are very willing to accommodate different sized dolls
(see the Pure Neemo blog, The Majokko Shop
for a review from a shorter doll's perspective)
and they're very wonderful to deal with as a customer.
Will I be buying from them again?
but I already have!
If you're interested in purchasing from them,
click any of the links in this post, or go here:
**I was not paid to do this review...
I really think this is an amazing line of products that should be promoted**

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