RARE WW2 GERMAN - ARMAMENTS / WARSHIP BUILDER - BUSINESS LETTER NOV. 11, 1939 for Sale

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RARE WW2 GERMAN - ARMAMENTS / WARSHIP BUILDER - BUSINESS LETTER NOV. 11, 1939:
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ORIGINAL! RARE! WW2 GERMAN - ARMAMENTS / WARSHIP BUILDER - BUSINESS LETTER NOV. 11, 1939WARTIME! JUST AFTER THE INVASION OF POLAND BY GERMANY IN WW2 (OCTOBER 1-6). WW2 GERMAN ARMAMENTS MANUFACTURER/ WARSHIP BUILDER "LAND-UND SEE-LEICHTBAU " G.m.b.H. BERLIN - BUSINESS LETTER DATED NOV. 11, 1939 ONLAND-UND SEE-LEICHTBAU " G.m.b.H. BERLIN PRINTED LETTERHEAD. SIGNED BYLAND-UND SEE-LEICHTBAU AND OTHER OFFICIALS.WRITTEN TO THE LOCAL BERLIN PHONE COMPANY (PROTOS TELEFON G.m.b.H. BERLIN) :

Re:

listening device

for Mr. Cranz's room

Your letter dated July 28, 1939 MO.6234/Ka.9083

With your above-mentioned letter you confirm to us that your fitter has sent it to you wolf

transmitted order

Exchange Mr. Cranz's station against a listening device W/Sigt.

Like us, your fitter Wolf Teitunger in the rooms of the tergen crana and Sachsenberg eder originally

from Mr. Sachsenberg. The delivery of another listening device is not possible until further notice. Likewise, the cables required to install a second listening device are not currently available, so it is not possible to lay the cables in Mr. Cranz's room as a precautionary measure for a later connection of the listening device.

For this reason we arranged for Mr

Cranz that is attached

Originally intended device without listening device since the laying of the cables is now final

The rooms had to be completed with iapets etc. before long.

We therefore ask that the order placed at the time for a listening device for Mr. Cranz's room be canceled and would be grateful for confirmation in this regard.

Land and sea lightweight construction

Heil! Hitle r !

============== roughly translated ===========

Betr.

Mithörapparat

für Zimmer des Herrn Cranz

Ihr Schreiben vom 28.7.1939 MO.6234/Ka. 9083

Mit Ihrem obengenannten Schreiben bestätigen Sie uns den Ihnen durch Ihren Monteur

Wolf

übermittelten Auftrag auf

Austausch

der Station des Herrn Cranz gegen einen Mithörapparat W/Sigt.

Wie uns Ihr Monteur Wolf

Teitunger in den Zimern det tergen crana und Sachsenberg e- der

ursprünglich

ursprine 1on in Auttras Begebone, 11 thorappare thr das nier

von Herrn Sachsenberg zur Verfügung. Die Lieferung eines weiteren Mithörapparates ist bis auf weiteres nicht möglich. Desgleichen stehen auch augenblicklich die für die Anlage eines 2. Mithöapparats erforderlichen kabel nicht zur Verfügung, sodaß auch die vorsorgliche Verlegung der Kabel für einen späteren Anschluß des Mithör-apparats im Zimmer des Herrn Cranz nicht möglich ist.

Wir haben aus diesem Grunde veranlaßt, daß im Zimmer von Herrn

Cranz der angebracht wird

ursprünglich vorgesehene Apparat ohne Mithörvorrichtung

da die Verlegung der Leitungen jetzt vor endgül-

tiger Fertigstellung der Zimmer mit Iapeten etc. erfolgen mußte.

Wir bitten daher, den seinerzeit erteilten Auftrag auf einen Mit-hörapparat für das Zimmer von Herrn Cranz zu streichen und wären für eine diesbezügliche Bestätigung dankbar.

Land- und See-Leichtbau

Heil! Hitle r !========================

Land und See Leichtbau GmbH -In 1936, Gebr. Sachsenberg AG in Berlin, a mechanical engineering and later shipbuilding company, founded Land und See Leichtbau GmbH with plants in Kiel and at the Neumünster air base, where the Leichtbau GmbH was located in the "Cattle sale Hall" (today's Holstenhalle) from 1939 operated an aircraft repair yard. The Berlin company's first branch was built at Sedanstrasse 19-21. By order of the National Socialist authorities, Land und See also employed C.C. camp prisoners as forced laborers during the WW2. In addition to ELAC, Franz Rohwer, Sörensen & Köster, AEG and Drägerwerke, Land und See was Berlin's most important armaments company. It is not yet clear how many worked there were exactly. The Sedanstrasse, Rendsburger Strasse and Schützenstrasse plants are well known. However, works up to Roman VI were included in the lists.

In 1944, Land und See had 2,328 employees in Neumünster, many of whom were forced laborers. In 1942, for example, 392 prisoners of war from Russia and 81 prisoners of war from France were counted on land and sea. While the Russians were housed in the Wittorf camp, the French were housed in the Rendsburger Straße 133/139 camp. Unfortunately, the information on foreign workers is very incomplete. What is clear, however, is that Eastern workers had to live in a barrack on Sedanstrasse and that a large group of prisoners of war from the Netherlands also had to work on land and sea. A list of the foreign camps in Neumünster (including prisoners of war) from the employment office from July 1944 demonstrates the distribution of foreign forced laborers on land and sea. In the first camp with a capacity of 500 people there were 452 people, in the second camp with a capacity of 550 people there were 543 people. The camps were packed with 1,000 forced laborers. The conditions must have been terrible. One of the camps was the Christian school at Christianstrasse 23, which no longer exists today. There is now an unsightly parking deck at this point.

In February 1944, the company apparently requested masses of "workers from the East" from the mayor in order to maintain production for the "total war":

"...I still have very significant needs from the company Land-und See-Leichtbau GmbH... and the railway, which are creating their own accommodation options."

On November 6th, 1944 there was an air raid on the Land und See residential camp, Rendsburgerstr. 133/139. It was hit by 14 high-explosive bombs, killing two Italian workers and completely destroying four barracks.

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