Volkswagen never fails to make it to the headlines. What’s more, workers just discovered bombs dating back to the World War 2 in the company’s German headquarters. Workers at Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg found metal fragments, which turned out to be unexploded bombs from the second world war.
The bombs were found during an expansion work at the massive manufacturing facility. In fact after that workers searched other parts of the facility as well for more explosives. 700 residents of town Sandkamp district in Wolfsburg will be evacuated when removing the unexploded devices.
It is not surprising that explosives were found at the factory. The plant’s history is a proof of that. The plant was commissioned in 1938 to build a people’s car by Germany’s then Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. This car later became the Volkswagen Beetle, the plant was converted during the second world war to produce Jeep-style military vehicles along with aircraft supplies and repair warplanes. As a result, the factory was on the receiving end of air raids from the allies.
The plant is a wonder in itself. The Wolfsburg facility is capable of manufacturing up to 3800 cars per day of the Golf, Tiguan and Touran. The Wolfsburg plant employs about 60,000 people in a town with a population of 1,25,000.