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1936-1950

History

1936
17758
Merger of Rheinmetall and Borsig into Rheinmetall-Borsig AG
1938
31846

Relocation of the company headquarters from Düsseldorf to Berlin

1940-1945
17759

Increasing control of armaments production by the Reich via the "Commissioner for the Four-Year Plan".

31834

Mass deployment of German and foreign forced labourers in all the factories of factories of Rheinmetall-Borsig AG

1944-1945
17760

Damage and destruction of production facilities by air raids, therefore relocation of production to numerous locations in the later GDR and present-day Poland

1945

 End of war and production banned by military government

1950
31840

Start of a less successful civilian production programme in Düsseldorf

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