Sabotage against Welding Workshop Derby 24-08-1943
Outline of the buildings of the welding plant and the surrounding residential properties.
A part of the workshop location viewed from the door to the yard. The black arrow marks the saboteurs’ most likely entrance place, a broken window.
The destroyed garage building viewed from the yard.
The destroyed garage building viewed from the neighboring yard.
Intro
The company welded aeroplane parts for the Wehrmacht. During the night, the saboteurs threw an explosive charge through the bars of a broken window in the workshop. Windows and doors in the room were shattered in the explosion, and all tools and machines were destroyed...
The company welded aeroplane parts for the Wehrmacht. During the night, the saboteurs threw an explosive charge through the bars of a broken window in the workshop. Windows and doors in the room were shattered in the explosion, and all tools and machines were destroyed. The police found remnants of the explosive capsule and fuse. After the war, it was revealed that the welding shop had also produced rails for V-1 bombs. A sister company in Aarhus should have been blown up at the same time.
30668
858704
Åboulevarden 41-43
København
1 Frederiksberg
BOPA
AS-1-276
KF5-699
KL-1473
Børge Jacobsen (FHM 14064)
Esben Kjeldbæk: Sabotageorganisationen BOPA, 1997. Niels Alkil: Besættelsestidens fakta, 2. bind, 1946.