The German plans for a fighter jet, for which preliminary designs had already been drafted in 1939, intensified in 1943 when the logistically most suitable site for completion of the project was found near Kahla, in Thuringia. It became operational in July 1944. The construction of a complex including both industrial plants and housing for the staff was decided by Fritz Sauckel, who created the Reimahg (acronym for Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring) group and ordered that work “proceed as quickly as possible without scruples of any kind”. Between 11 April 1944 – when work began at the site – and liberation,…
