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Soon plants were built. In 1937, for example, Brabag completed the Brabag II facility in Ruhland-Schwarzheide (the 4th Nazi Germany Fischer-Tropsch plant) to produce gasoline and diesel fuel from lignite coal. While it operated, it produced commodities vital to the German military forces before and during World War II.
This is a list of German-made and German-used land vehicles sorted by type, covering both former and current vehicles. From their inception from the German Empire , through the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany , to the spilt between West Germany and East Germany , through their reunification and into modern day Germany .
The four remaining battlecruisers— Von der Tann, Moltke, Seydlitz, and Derfflinger saw little further activity in 1917 and 1918, during which time they were reinforced by Hindenburg. The ships were interned with the bulk of the German fleet at the British naval base at Scapa Flow following the end of the war in November 1918.
The BMW 5 Series mid-size sedan range was introduced in 1972, followed by the BMW 3 Series compact sedans in 1975, the BMW 6 Series luxury coupes in 1976 and the BMW 7 Series large luxury sedans in 1978. The BMW M division released its first road car, a mid-engine supercar, in 1978. This was followed by the BMW M5 in 1984 and the BMW M3 in 1986 ...
The German navies—specifically the Kaiserliche Marine and Kriegsmarine of Imperial and Nazi Germany, respectively—built a series of battleships between the 1890s and 1940s. To defend its North and Baltic Sea coasts in wartime, Germany had previously built a series of smaller ironclad warships, including coastal defense ships, and armored ...
The German military submarines known as U-boats that were in action during World War II were built between 1935 and 1944, and were numbered in sequence from U-1 upwards. . Numbering was according to the sequence in which construction orders were allocated to the individual shipyards, rather than commissioning date; thus some boats carrying high numbers were commissioned well before boats with ...
BMW Headquarters. / 48.17694°N 11.56000°E / 48.17694; 11.56000. The BMW Headquarters ( German: BMW-Vierzylinder, lit. 'BMW four-cylinder' ), also known as the BMW Tower (German: BMW-Turm or BMW-Hochhaus ), is a high-rise building located in the Am Riesenfeld area of Munich, Germany. The building has served as the global corporate ...
Hansa-Brandenburg W.13 - flying boat for Austria-Hungary [209] Hansa-Brandenburg W.16 - floatplane fighter [210] Hansa-Brandenburg W.17 - floatplane fighter [211] Hansa-Brandenburg W.18 - flying boat fighter [212] Hansa-Brandenburg W.19 - reconnaissance floatplane [213] Hansa-Brandenburg W.20 - flying boat fighter [214] Hansa-Brandenburg W.23