1- Deutsche Reichsbahn Klasse 52 2-10-0 Lokomotive Originally designed by Orenstein & Koppel/MBA Maschinenbau und Bahnbedarf AG Babelsberg/Potsdam Deutschland as the 50 Klasse. 8000 1942-1950. (20 survive in Germany today, several are still in use in Bosnia) O&K had Jewish owners and was aryanized by the Nazis and renamed MBA in 1935. It produced locomotives primarily for the East Front in Russia. Modified from the 50 class, the 52 class were made on the cheap to save resources. The 52 was manufactured at numerous factories under license during the war in Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. In the occupied countries the workforce was made up of forced labor from the concentration camps. (vvs)
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Originally designed by Orenstein & Koppel/MBA Maschinenbau und Bahnbedarf AG Babelsberg/Potsdam Deutschland as the 50 Klasse.
8000 1942-1950. (20 survive in Germany today, several are still in use in Bosnia)
O&K had Jewish owners and was aryanized by the Nazis and renamed MBA in 1935. It produced locomotives primarily for the East Front in Russia. Modified from the 50 class, the 52 class were made on the cheap to save resources. The 52 was manufactured at numerous factories under license during the war in Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia.
In the occupied countries the workforce was made up of forced labor from the concentration camps.
(vvs)
Anon@9:43am - Thanks for all of that background info.
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