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DSC Forst „Wald”

Dismantling in 1945

Soviet takeover and the documented removal of equipment.

Summary of equipment listed in GKO Resolution No. 8609 ss
Summary of equipment designated for dismantling under GKO Resolution No. 8609 ss, including Goldner-Grimm presses, rolls, Krause turret machines and auxiliary equipment. Editorial graphic based on the translated document.

Context

GKO Resolution No. 8609 ss ordered the removal of important equipment from the powder plant near Szeino/Forst in May 1945. It lists 72 Goldner-Grimm presses, 120 rolls, 16 Krause turret machines, graphiting and separating equipment, power equipment and four nitration departments.

Key findings

The page separates securely documented facts from reconstruction. Comparative data from other DSC plants is used only when explicitly labelled as analogy.

How to read the evidence

Direct Forst records take priority. Report 133 is direct evidence for corporate structure, while its detailed technical inventory concerns Kraiburg.

Open questions

Further archival finds may refine dates, quantities and machine identifications. Uncertain points remain visibly marked.

Sources and state of research

The presentation distinguishes direct evidence, reconstruction and analogy. Old GEOS scans are not used as decorative illustrations.

  1. Fundacja Rokita - own materials and author study „Deutsche Sprengchemie Forst - Wald”.
  2. United States Strategic Bombing Survey, Report 133, Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH, Kraiburg, Germany, 2nd ed., 1947.
  3. GKO Resolution No. 8609 ss - translation of the record concerning dismantling of the plant near Szeino/Forst.
  4. Bundesarchiv / DDB - Deutsche Sprengchemie GmbH.
  5. State Archives in Zielona Góra (Archiwum Państwowe w Zielonej Górze) - Deutsche Sprengchemie Werk Forst.
  6. G.E.O.S. Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH, expert report, 1995; Preuß et al., reconstruction of the POL plant, 1994.

Photographs and source documents

Dokument wywiadowczy opisujący wyposażenie i znaczenie zakładu.
Source material: intelligence document describing the plant equipment and significance.
Pozostałości kompleksu po demontażu i powojennych przekształceniach.
Source material: surviving structures after dismantling and post-war transformation.