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Zeiss used forced labour as part of Nazi Germany's Zwangsarbeiter program, including persecution of Jews and other minorities during World War II. [210] [211] Satellite labour camps of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, e.g. at the SS Engineer's Barracks, were also used by Zeiss on a massive scale. Its prisoners were mostly Poles and Russians ...
The BMW 801 was a powerful German 41.8-litre (2,550 cu in) air-cooled 14-cylinder- radial aircraft engine built by BMW and used in a number of German Luftwaffe aircraft of World War II. Production versions of the twin-row engine generated between 1,560 and 2,000 PS (1,540–1,970 hp, or 1,150–1,470 kW ). It was the most produced radial engine ...
Economy of Nazi Germany. Economy of Nazi Germany. Prisoner work force in the construction of the Valentin submarine pens for U-boats, in 1944. Location. The Third Reich and German-occupied Europe; forced labor predominantly from Nazi-occupied Poland and the Nazi-occupied Soviet Union. Period. Great Depression and World War II (1933–1945)
the corporation. The BMW Museum is the corporate museum of BMW history and was established in 1973, shortly after the 1972 Summer Olympics opened. From 2004 to 2008, it was renovated in connection with the construction of the BMW Welt, directly opposite. The museum reopened on 21 June 2008. At the moment the exhibition space is 5,000 square ...
History of BMW. The official founding date of the German motor vehicle manufacturer BMW is 7 March 1916, when an aircraft producer called Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (formerly Otto Flugmaschinenfabrik) was established. [ 1][ 2] This company was renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1922. However, the BMW name dates back to 1917, when Rapp ...
The BMW Central building is a 270,000-square-foot (25,000 m 2) facility that makes up only 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2) of the 540-acre (2.2 km 2) campus [6]. Serving 5,500 employees, the building functions as the most important piece of the factory, connecting the three production sheds. Each day, 650 BMW 3 Series sedans [7] pass through ...
3.5–4 litres per 100 kilometres (81–71 mpg ‑imp; 67–59 mpg ‑US) [ 1] The BMW R12 and R17 are flat-twin engine motorcycles made by BMW Motorrad from 1935 through 1942. They were developed in 1935 based on the R7 concept of 1934. [ 3][ 4] A few hundred R17s were made, ending in 1937, while the R12 continued through 1942, with a total of ...
There were no plans, blueprints, or schematic drawings because they were all in Eisenach. The first post-war BMW motorcycle in Western Germany, was the 1948 BMW R 24. The R 24 was reverse-engineered from the pre-war BMW R 23 motorcycle with several improvements [13] and powered by a 247 cc (15 cu in) single-cylinder engine. It was the only ...