The William Gustloff donation designated after the William Gustloff raised from the national socialists to the martyr, became by the gau leader of Thuringia Fritz Sauckel to 27. May 1936 in Weimar based and as a donation leader appointed by Adolf Hitler led.

Industrielle the fortune of the donation was based on that 1935 "arisierten "Suhler windshield frame section on work. Afterwards further large weapon and were subordinated to the donation, like e.g. 1938 the Hirtenberger cartridge factory in Austria or the Ventimotor GmbH in Weimar.

1939 took place renaming in "William Gustloff of works, National Socialist industrial donation ", it were one of the largest arms companies in Central Germany. The donation enterprises produced, (in particular in Suhl), approximately a quarter of entire production at machine guns for the German army. Among other things starting from 1942 also armament makers in the concentration camp beech forest were operated. 1944 succeeded to transfer it the Gustloff works the AGO of aircraft plants to Oschersleben as well as to create the aircraft plant REIMAHG ("realm marshal Hermann with Kahla as subsidiary. This became famous notorious because of the hard labour camp with 5000 to 6000 deaths.

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