Forced Labor Metal ID + worksheet from an employee of GmbH Aviation plan ARADO - Ausweis ID

Unique Documents A-Ausweis der ARADO 1940 + Worksheet

A-ID of ARADO Flugzeug-Werke GmbH, Rathenow, for an employee, Antoni Grodzki on November 23, 1940, with a photo, very rare

Heinkel He 177 'Greif' and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 were assembled at the plant in Rathenow

The Arado plants were built on the basis of the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH aviation plant in Warnemünde, which had been operating since 1917. The first main constructor of the plant was Eng. Walter Rethel, who previously worked for Kondor Flugzeugbau and Fokker. The development of the Arado company took place with the takeover of power in Germany by Adolf Hitler. As a result of government subsidies, the plants came under the control of the Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM - Reich Ministry of Aviation). The new chief constructor was then Eng. Walter Blume. In September 1934, the company took over the machinery factory in Brandenburg-Neuendorf and launched aviation production there (the first aircraft was produced there on April 1, 1935 [1]). Initially, Arado products were not produced in large quantities, only the Arado Ar 96 training plane and the Arado Ar 196 seaplane were put into mass production. The most famous model of the company is the Arado Ar 234 Blitz reconnaissance and bomber jet. In addition to the production of its own airframes, the Arado plant manufactured under license a large number of aircraft from the following companies: Focke-Wulf (3944 Fw 190), Heinkel (75 He 51, 140 He 59, 100 He 60, 300 He 111 , 716 pcs. He 177), Junkers (Ju 88) and Messerschmitt (Bf 109). At the end of 1944, the company employed 15,786 people (in addition to the parent factories in Warnemünde and Brandenburg-Neuendorf, aircraft factories were also located in Babelsberg, Eger, Rathenow, Wittenberg, Tutow, Anklam and Neubrandenburg), and 16,260 people worked in subcontractors only for the needs of Arado [2]. In 1945, there were several avant-garde planes on the company's design boards, incl. Arado Ar 340 long-range bomber, Arado Ar E 381 missile fighter and tailless planes in the delta system - Arado Ar I and Arado Ar II.

RARE Holocast concentration camp Dachau inmate patch ID and METAL ID work as forced labour in the construction of an underground aircraft factory on Goring orders

this is a matched set including a patch ID for uniform in camp as long as the METAL ID with a matched number, given by the D.W. concrete company who built the underground REIMAHG-A aircraft factory.

The 'D.W.' is for company Dykerhoff & Widmann, used for the REIMAHG-A aircraft factory near Kahla, Thuringia, Germany while constructing the underground Me 262 jet factory. The badge would date between 1944-45.

By early 1944 the Allies had achieved air superiority over Germany and the the great German industrial cities were being bombed almost daily. In an effort to ensure that production would continue, parts of the German war industry were moved to existing or new mines in southern Germany and Austria.

The Germans newest fighter was ME 262 and it was decided to build a factory in an old mine in Walpersberg near Kahla in order to produce it.

The factory was named Flugzeugwerke Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering (REIMAHG). All factories built in existing mines were codenamed for fish and REIMAHG was codenamed Lachs. (salmon)

In the Spring of 1944, 15.000 workers, most of whom were slaves, was taken from concentration camps and put to work expanding the existing tunnels in the mine. The tunnels were enlarged and several large concrete bunkers were poured outside the mine. REIMAHG was to become the largest underground factory, almost 150.000 m². On top of the mountain, a 1.000 meter-long runway was constructed. The facility was laid out so that the finished fighter could be completed in the mine then towed to the runway via ramp. It would then take off, flying 100 km. to a factory where final details would be completed before the plane was operational. There were several underground factories in the area around Kahla that supplied REIMAHG with various components for production. These included Schneehase in Kamsdorf and Pikrit in Krölpa.

By April 1945 only 27 fighters had left the factory. When the Americans arrived on April12th April , they subsequently finished building five more aircraft. These were, along with drawings and technicians removed before the Soviet troops arrived in the area in July.

In 1947, the Soviet soldiers blow up the many bunkers and the mine entrance. The runway was also removed. Today, there is an exhibition on the area that tell the story and keep alive the memory of the 1.000 slave workers who died at REIMAHG.

Concentration camp DACHAU Waffen SS totenkopf guard dogtag metal ID

Concentration Camp Auschwitz III Monowitz I.G.FARBENINDUSTRIE LUMINALETTEN scealed drug FIRST KIT BAYER DRUGS

RARE Zyklon B canister label concentration camp holocaust