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In April 1942 RAF Bomber Command targeted the MAN U-boat diesel engine factory at Augsburg in Operation Margin. They hoped to take advantage of the capabilities of the new Avro Lancaster . [ 1 ] The target was a long distance inside Germany, and a night-time attack would not have been as accurate, so the plan was to attack by day and cross ...
Post mission photo-reconnaissance image of the MAN factory Nettleton signing an autograph for a factory worker. The raid had not ended well. Four of the Lancasters in the 44 Squadron group were shot down over northern France, and another was lost over the target. Flak defenses at Augsburg claimed two more aircraft from 97 Squadron.
MAN SE (abbreviation of Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg, German: [maˈʃiːnənfaˌbʁiːk ˈʔaʊksbʊʁk ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk]) was a manufacturing and engineering company based in Munich, Germany. Its primary output was commercial vehicles and diesel engines through its MAN Truck & Bus and MAN Latin America divisions, and participation in the ...
Mittelwerk ([ˈmɪtl̩.vɛʁk]; German for "Central Works") was a German World War II factory built underground in the Kohnstein to avoid Allied bombing. It used slave labor from the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp to produce V-2 ballistic missiles, V-1 flying bombs, and other weapons.
The MAN acronym originally stood for Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG (pronounced [maˈʃiːnənfaˌbʁiːk ˈʔaʊksbʊʁk ˈnʏʁnbɛʁk;-faˌbʁɪk-]), formerly MAN AG. Neoplan Airport bus. Neoplan is owned by MAN. Trucks and buses of the product brand MAN and buses of the product brand Neoplan (premium coaches) belong to the MAN Truck ...
Location of Weingut I ("Bunkergelände") and the former camp system. Weingut I (English: Vineyard I) was the codename for a construction project, begun in 1944, to create an underground factory complex in the Mühldorfer Hart [] forest, near Mühldorf am Inn in Upper Bavaria, Germany
The factory in Allach was retrofitted for the production of ceramic products such as household pottery. Prof. Karl Diebitsch , was an Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS, and Himmler ’s personal referent on art. Prof. Theodor Kärner was (besides Diebitsch) one of Germany’s most prestigious artists in porcelain.
Previously, Nazi Germany had deported all Jews from the Reich, but having exhausted other sources of labor, Jews were deported to Kaufering to create three massive underground bunkers, Weingut II, Diana II, and Walnuss II, which would not be vulnerable to the Allied bombing which had devastated German aircraft factories.