 Already in August 1944, the Soviet army conquered the demolished German test site in Dębice, Poland, and found debris of dismantled V-2 missiles and remnants of launch pads which allowed to collect basic technical data of the German rocket program.The Soviet army occupied Peenemünde on May 5, 1945, where all German activities had been shut down in early February 1945 and transferred to the area around Nordhausen with the Mittelwerk for mass fabrication of V-2s.Realizing the importance of their capture, the Soviets immediately began salvage and repair of the test facilities in Peenemünde.