WIFO (Nazi company)
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Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbh (WiFo, {{langx|en|Economic Research Company}}) was a Nazi Germany-owned company "charged with the construction and operation of solid fuel (natural and synthetic) storage depots."{{cite web |last=Strange |first=Anthony N |year=2003 |title=Germany's Synthetic Fuel Industry 1927-45 |url=http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/presentations/AIChE%202003%20Spring%20National%20Meeting/Paper%2080a%20Stranges%20germany.pdf |publisher=Fischer-Tropsch.org |access-date=2009-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924013711/http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/presentations/AIChE%202003%20Spring%20National%20Meeting/Paper%2080a%20Stranges%20germany.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-24 }}
Chronology
1935 summer: At the suggestion of IG Farben, the Wirtschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft (Wifo, Economic Research Ltd)
{{cite book|last=Neufeld|first=Michael J|title=The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era|year=1995|publisher=The Free Press|location=New York|isbn=0-02-922895-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951/page/202 202, 209, 230, 264]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780029228951/page/202}} investigated the Kohnstein mine to centralize a fuel and chemical depot.
{{cite book |last=Ordway |first= Frederick I III|author2=Sharpe, Mitchell R |title=The Rocket Team|series= Apogee Books Space Series 36|year=1979|pages=75, 76, 79, 88}}
{{cite book |last=Garliński|first=Józef |author-link=Józef Garliński|title=Hitler's Last Weapons: The Underground War against the V1 and V2|year=1978|publisher=Times Books|location=New York|page=105}}
{{For|strategic bombings of Nazi Germany petroleum storage depots|Oil Campaign chronology of World War II}}
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Category:German companies established in 1934
Category:1945 disestablishments in Germany
Category:Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1934
Category:Energy companies disestablished in 1945
Category:Defunct energy companies of Germany
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