• 11 March 1944
  • The Reich Ministry of Aviation decides to relocate the Genshagen aeroengine factory to a gypsum mine near Obrigheim am...
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  • 5 May 1944
  • Bertha Benz, the widow of Carl Benz and automotive pioneer owing to her legendary long-distance drive of 1888, dies in...
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  • 6 August 1944
  • The Genshagen plant is the first Daimler-Benz plant to be so heavily damaged by air strikes that production can no long...
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  • 5 September 1944
  • Heavy aerial bombardment of the Untertürkheim plant causes damage valued at 30.2 million Reichsmarks and cripples produ...
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  • December 1944
  • The number of foreign workers employed at Daimler-Benz AG factories, many of them forced labourers, reaches a peak of ab...
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