Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbh (WiFo, en, Economic Research Company) was a

Nazi Germany Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

-owned company "charged with the construction and operation of solid fuel (natural and synthetic) storage depots."

Chronology

1935 summer: At the suggestion of

IG Farben Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG (), commonly known as IG Farben (German for 'IG Dyestuffs'), was a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Formed in 1925 from a merger of six chemical companies— BASF, Bayer, Hoechst, Agf ...

, the Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo, Economic Research Ltd) investigated the

Kohnstein The Kohnstein is a hill in Thuringia, Germany, 2 kilometres southwest of the village of Niedersachswerfen and 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of the town of Nordhausen. Gypsum mining created tunnels in the hill that were later used as a f ...

mine to centralize a fuel and chemical depot.

References

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