Word: borsig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians had exacted "reparations in kind" on a large scale. When the British occupied their area of Berlin, they found the immense plant of Rheinmetall-Borsig (25 blocks, 70,000 workers) stripped of heavy machinery that had produced gasoline and Tiger tanks. Of 2,500 machines, only 300 were left. Key equipment from textile mills, sugar refineries and other factories had also made the long trip to Russia. Said a German manager appointed by the Russians: "There is no question of our producing anything. Our productive capacity is absolutely...
...another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
...Mariendorf, where the big Borsig plant turns out the stuff of war, the flak had brought down a British bomber two years before-it had fallen like a fluttering, glowing leaf into an open field. Now Mariendorf's guns spoke again. High above, the bomb bays opened and the bombs dropped, arching down with a cracking noise while the watchers on the ground ran for shelter and the plant's terrified workers covered their ears...
Herewith TIME presents condensed versions of two extraordinary speeches made last week. Together they did much to clarify the overwhelming problem facing the U. S. One was a speech by Adolf Hitler to the workers and women of Germany, delivered beneath shiny new cannon in the Rhein-metall-Borsig munitions works. The other was dictated by the British Ambassador to the U. S., the Marquess of Lothian, from his deathbed, and was read by Embassy Counselor Nevile Butler to the convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Baltimore...