Bodenwöhr Waldwerk - Mtt Bf 109 K-4 assembly lines 1944 - 1945

[RolandF]

Thanks, Marc for these websites.

I already know those photographs, but the resolution of the Bf109K pic is excellent!

The photo of the assembly barracks is captioned wrongly concerning the assembly of wings or fuselages - they´re much too small at all. This assembly took place elsewhere. Maybe the pre-assembly of components took place in these barracks or the fabrication of Me 262 parts towards the final months. I haven´t found photos of the Nazi-era depicting Mtt assembly halls - seems to be the urge to keep it secret. Even on official KZ photos you can see some halls faintly in the background of one pic. Most photos come from the US - maybe they´re still filed as "Mtt Regensburg"

Another pic from the 50s-60s show a train passing Altenhammer. The gap left of the engine marks the site of the Mtt assembly hall already torn down at this time.

I´m quite sure the archives of EADS (successor of MBB and/or Mtt) contain photos of those secret production sites. IMO they´re not revealed because it would not be PC to draw any connections to a wartime production of the company based on slave labour. And the KZ Flossenbürg archives understandably are mostly interested in the suffering of the people and not in their products.

Regards

Roland