WIFO (Nazi company)
Not to be confused with WIFO-FM.
| Industry | Petroleum |
|---|---|
| Founded | August 24, 1934[1] |
| Defunct | 1945 |
Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (WIFO, English: Economic Research Company) was a Nazi Germany-owned company "charged with the construction and operation of solid fuel (natural and synthetic) storage depots."[1]
Chronology
1935 summer: At the suggestion of IG Farben, the Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo, Economic Research Ltd)[2] investigated the Kohnstein mine to centralize a fuel and chemical depot.[3][4]
For strategic bombings of Nazi Germany petroleum storage depots, see Oil Campaign chronology of World War II.
References
- 1 2 Strange, Anthony N (2003). "Germany’s Synthetic Fuel Industry 1927-45" (pdf). Fischer-Tropsch.org. Retrieved 2009-10-20.
- ↑ Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press. pp. 202, 209, 230, 264. ISBN 0-02-922895-6.
- ↑ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. pp. 75, 76, 79, 88.
- ↑ Garliński, Józef (1978). Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War against the V1 and V2. New York: Times Books. p. 105.
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