I’m looking for any photographs of what appears to have been a Junkers Aircraft Factory located in Schonebeck, Germany. Given the importance of Junkers, I would have thought this would be easy, but so far I'm coming up empty. I've seen lots of Junkers history and photographs, from across Germany, but so far nothing from Schonebeck. I think my biggest issue is that it was "not a component facility, but a metal shop for surface and press works". So far less dynamic and impressive than a full on aircraft factory, thus, less pictures. Wikipedia indicates "electrical castings, sheet metal and cutting parts as well as aggregates for the aircraft cells of the models Ju 88, Ju 188 and He 162 were produced in this plant". Schonebeck is a relatively small town on the west bank of the Elbe River. It became a very important location in April/May 1945, as did the Elbe River. This was the defacto demarcation line between Allied forces and Soviets. Numerous liberated POW’s crossed the Elbe near here, presumably via the Truman Bridge, and were initially processed in town. Various reports and memoirs indicate this occurred in a Junkers aircraft factory, anticipated to have been located inside the red circle. Thank you.
Hi, You probably know this: Junkers Zweigwerk Schoenebeck Schoenebeck was a further Junkers-Zweigwerk, which was under built up since September 1936. It was not a component facility, but a metal shop for surface and press works. The facility was located in the Barbyer Strasse. A total of 763 thousand sqaure metres shop capacity was available at Schoenebeck and 7800 people were employeed here. After WWII the Junkers Flugzeugwerke facility was transfered to the nowadays Landtechnik AG Schoenebeck. From March 1943 to April 1945 about 1000 KZ prisoners were forced to work at Junkers-Schoenebeck. A special camp was set up under the name "Julius" near Schoenebeck. A lot of the living baracks still exist today and are still used for living purposes. Since October 1944 it was planned to transfer the production from Schoenebeck into a Kali mine Northwest of Westeregeln/Hadmersleben under the name Tarthun Schacht III/V. But this facility was not ready for production until April 1945, when the extension of the mine was stopped. Another under meet facility of Schoenebeck was the natural cave Heimkehle at Rottleberode, which was operated under the name "Heller" or "A5" by Junkers-Schoenebeck. About 500 poeple from KZ camps were employeed here for the production of undercarriages. Junkers Zweigwerk Schoenebeck (hugojunkers.bplaced.net) The camp itself was called 'Julius' Schönebeck (Barbyer Straße) (tenhumbergreinhard.de)
I've found a comprehensive description of the plant facilities, dated June 27, 1945. It appears to have been a significant operation, so I continue to be perplexed by the apparent lack of any photographs.
