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Forced Labour in the Aircraft Industry

Minister Hermann Göring at a parade for Tag der Luftwaffe, 1938
Heinkel airplane over Polen, 1939. Heinkel, Junkers and Messerschmitt were the most important companies.
French forced labourers in aircraft production. Propaganda photo, 1943
Underground Heinkel factory with concentration camp prisoners in Mödlingen (Vienna). Propaganda photo, 1945
Bosch advert, 1941. Suppliers like Daimler, BMW or Bosch were also expanding.
The ministry supported Bosch in building the Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH (DLMG) in Kleinmachnow, near Berlin.
Factory identity card of Barbara Michalska. “Civilian” forced labourers also worked for Bosch-Dreilinden.