Volkswagen Headquarters Investigated for World War 2 Bombs

The head office of German automaker Volkswagen was browsed by explosive disposal professionals after building workers discovered signs of possibly unexploded bombs dating from the Second World War.

Construction employees last month discovered metal pieces at 4 areas at Volkswagen’s huge plant in Wolfsburg, a spokesperson for the city administration stated.

Should unexploded bombs be discovered by the professional team from Lower Saxony, the western German state where Wolfsburg is situated, authorities would leave the 700 or so residents from the Sandkamp district by the Volkwagen plant, she said. Numerous undetonated World War Two period bombs have been discovered on the Volkswagen factory facilities over the years, however contemporary technology has actually made deactivating and removing them a lot easier.

The Wolfsburg auto factory uses about 60,000 people in a town of about 125,000. The plant constructed 815,000 cars in 2015. A Volkswagen spokesman soft-pedaled the effect of a possible evacuation on manufacturing, saying Volkswagen generally does not run shifts on Sunday and plant operations have been phased down given that workers departed for the three-week summer shutdown duration on July 1.

“There will be no effects on production,” he stated. Wolfsburg develops as numerous as 3,800 Golf, Tiguan and Touran cars daily during peak times.

The Wolfsburg factory was developed under the Nazi government in 1938 to assemble individuals’s Car on Adolf Hitler’s orders. But rather of constructing the car which later on became the Volkswagen Beetle, the plant was converted throughout World War Two to produce jeep-type military automobiles in addition to airplane materials and to fix warplanes, drawing various allied air raids.