The birthplace of the V1 and V2 rockets. History and the politics of memory regarding World War II Peenemünde is not just one of many charming tourist municipalities on the island of Usedom in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Until the mid-1930s, this small fishing village—known only as the place where Swedish King Gustavus…
The beginning of the automotive history of the Stoewer company took place in March 1896. In that year, Bernhard Stoewer Sr. launched a factory under the name Stettiner Eisenwerke Bernhard Stoewer Sen., located on today’s Aleja Wojska Polskiego (back then Falkenwalder Chaussee). Initially, its production was based on metalworking machinery (lathes) and, additionally, bicycle…
Terror from the sky and the Nazi phantom factory in Police: how the Third Reich wanted to win the war with synthetic fuel from coal Introduction World War II left behind many non-obvious material traces embedded in the contemporary cultural landscape. Among the more intriguing are the remains of Nazi synthetic liquid fuel…
