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Where are we?
We are at the Cogne factory
On 21 October 1943, after negotiations between the Nazis and the owners, the Cogne factory, now dismissed, was placed under the control of the Reich Ministry of Armament and War Production.
On 21st October 1943, the large Cogne Acciai Speciali steelworks were placed under the direct control of the Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition (Reich Ministry for Armament and Munitions Production) under a German director. Until the end of the war, the factory supplied the German combat troops with weapons and other war materials, as it was already doing for Italian troops since the mid-1930s on the basis of the Fascist expansionist policy
After the war, the factory restarted civilian production. Following the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s, the factory is still in operation today. Its industrial buildings bear witness to the economic exploitation of occupied Italy between 1943 and 1944, although no visible evidence of the production of war material for the Third Reich remains.
Facility or museum: no
Geographic location: Aosta, Valle d’Aosta
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