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DSC Forst „Wald”

Environmental research

What was tested in 1995 and what cannot be inferred today.

Context

The 1995 GEOS study remains an important historical and preliminary environmental source. Individual samples from that period cannot be presented as the condition of the entire site in 2026. A current assessment would require new systematic testing.

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

Arkusz Sorau z 1893 r. — źródłowy kontekst topograficzny.
Source material: 1893 Sorau map sheet - source-based topographic context.
Fotografia terenowa pozostałości kompleksu.
Source material: field photograph of the surviving complex.