MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION AND PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS IN DENMARK DURING THE GERMAN OCCUPATION

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100140038-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 16, 2012
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: March 15, 1941
• Content Type: REPORT

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bron~Q ~owd~r his boffl auddcflL7 eta
pp, tho uscn bQ~ thc ~Qaity
@V thcsQ mot~i pows in Orrnny, In tacos off' cai1ft nsxctthe lofln~~~ ~aanQrnic in Lonnr
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k ic to subrjt to ~orm~ app1ios-
tion~ statgn Xtat17 why the j not
t1r~ flt~~~~(ji and
the aawill bQ con~ido~d,
has ~h?wrt that thc Dmc,s
uR o thoso me t~~~~c p?jrders rhos t1y au ~ ~ r~e~~crva : .
~ cants .for brirrgoa
and athar structt~rs, f?rr~ilraad o mcn?
M' ~kia! ~3~~~~~7dakstll~ pow?r
plant cqu~pmQnt ~ Only t vy s~nafl ?~ iQ uscd L or indjroct
German Armed Forcos requirQCnlirnt i
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aunt ant Laa uer
Narch l c ~n ar 19)41 r
~ vmcnt botwaen tDortnariy end ~nmark~
the requlrament o,? paint and lac uex for tho ?
q aeran Arm1'iarC?s in
Der n rk and fox' Gei'ian ordo *~ ~l cod with D
onish flr~ns was to be eovaracj
front Danish productjons
The ra~r tnator:Lals i'or tho Dish paint and
lacqiindustry were
to be Provided by Ge~ma,rty, Urler the r
'rcQment, up to 20 per cent of the
Danish prodi~otjon was to bo of asjda-for the Oerma~s~ his quota
was far from utiljin 192, a~ tar a s
~ _hlpments off' paint and .l~oquor
wero sent from G?rrntany. This wcs partiou,'larl
y true of ship and shipa
bottom paitlt for the Oermanas the D~nish pant was of inferior
quaaity.
A aonferorjca betweer~ various
German rnhlitary or~an~,~at~.ons, a Berman
chemicaresearch nrganizatjon arid the Danish paint manufaaturer~ resulted
in a decision that the entire ship and. sh~,p"bott~n,paint requiromont oj
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1 r4 ? th o run ( phi bui~di i~ tQ
aovrod by Dmh prdtion ? roquirornflt~ tt~4 at 60 tn~
uo
uttli o pproxin~t~li tho per o~nt o vory quat?
mc~thly~ which ~rii~
to co1nany
31 J no 19L&3r No di ~iot1tioa h vo in in. conno~tiQn with tho
tho Danish pant aii1 2aagtwx induotr of the Qocuption troops
c
upp by
with paint ? Howovor, ordcro for oil paint p1aat4 tho t'oopa much bo
"~ not obc rv X C tho conservation 1 tong
cut down, they a
Qt ntlyi
imo u to tF ?~1i o 19LKi wkdcsLr tho I t i~h ptnF/ m tnuAtow
no
turor,s unabio to L iii the German Armad Forcos paint r?quirer onto f Infor-
rrmUon boyond that cIuto is not avaiiab1e7
oport on the Danish I cplooive3 anti
pe Dans~e ren stofkkor A/-,_$!p
s Production facilitios are obsoieta ? Only one mixing
operation and only 5 workers ove en cged th the produotion
fltachino is n
Month ma~dmum output of 10,000 kiio~rarne of Aerolito,
of explosives
Lou which 1,000 kilo rams of trotyl cro roquirode The waste products
are utilized in the nitro-co11u1o8o Lacquer factory, which at present
is operatir) in oon jtmction with the mariufact a of ? 1osivoe i
't'he Danes appear to have mado very limited quantities of corn-
merciaJ, blaattn~ powdors rather than rniiitary high-explosiV
. a
Procurement of~ax, s
~,-baar~.n m for German or~lera s In April 1914)4,? a new decree by
dal _ ---
the a?rm --
a 1 rationin office for bai1Moeartgs prohibited" German firms
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from proviciir foroi n firrno with baL1-bearings neodcrd for the filling
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an orders ? This deoroe hampered the placing of German orders
of c?xm
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by port ?rom ~ Qty. InoroA~ proauv mont ti 6
in cI!ffigflT d:tn;in 4g1ivQr : from w~don 9 u~~
shortLo in Donmrk. In ~ovr nsta~ Amish usedorl-bodrin~
imported From Oo dry for puwe' D ish stirs, ds i o the 'aet' that
thes fog MMonttdf' in nrnark had isauod priority ootio~~
1miting tho uses those bail~barinc to th? i11irof Erman orders.
Qonacquortly, Oor~ n zmw ont o /ors sui'fo od,
rQctto in the proeur?rno ea ido
Information uppiiod by t roprosenta;vivo of tho iohssommiarar
for Nor' ay (Apri1 i9hL) sho%rod that the Norwogiar produotion of carbide
bocauso a!' the greatly docroasod coal import from Ovrmany, d to b?
ourtailod so much that, afto ' a11owing for the qtu ntitios neudod for'
the production oL' crude calcium cyanarnic1e, only 1,000 tons pQ month
rem inod available 5inoo this 'quantity was not ovQn suf 'iciont to
cover tho reads of thr I1Orwo~iai oconomy, tht schodulod monthly
dolivery of jO) tons of carbide to Doi nark and of 125 tons ,for diroct
German Armed oticos roods proved to be i~po3sib1Q . 'i're short supply
or carbido hampored the production of acotylene cyllndor gas, and it
beoorno impossible to covor fully the acety1one roquiremott of the
ArmOd Forcos and to provido thrr quntitineeded: for the filling oi
German ordars ` piacod with Danish industry.
The main supplier of the Armed Forces is the firm A/s Gasaccuntiultor
(AOA), Ooponha en"S, Up;Lands ade 52. The Arm cl 'or'ces havo a total
monthly requirement of 125 tons /die original Moos not say whether this
is 125 tons of oarbi 1e or of acetylem~, but l strongly suspect that it is
tho latters as it seems unlikely that the Armed oro?s would want un-
bottled acetylene or would bottle the as themseiv7 s 25 tons for
the Organisation Padt, L2.5 tons for the Air Force, i2., tons for the
Airy, 20 tons for the Navy, and S5 tons for the gen ra?L needs of the
armament induct 7 After a cotii'erence, tho th a mi?L,tary forces do-
olared their wi1li gness to provide for their own 'needs from their
stoclcpi~ea ~
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PJ1y Produotion ?or A t 0onotruotien
Juno 19 i1ii only ono p1~41t, tho I ink kbvinduotri in N ootvad,
w1 fors to be ou.t b1o for tiro"production of p1 ood. any how
mnohino hart to be do1iv vod, and dryin end air-oon~tition n room
hd to bo bui1t. 1h'obruary 19LtL, tho ?irm rcoivod Qorraun ordro Lor
1,000 of bio motors of by oh pJywood sRiaot~ for di er t oen truotioh3
tho Danioh authoritioo providod tho bvooh wood. Produc?tion otaxtod
in Juno 19Lrh and at ?t e t r~o o tho rop~rt~ t~ ? irct shiprento h d
loft L'or Qermany.
Mero Montion
19 May 19~s A/5 Nordvaorks Rovnddo 91, Co,orh~wCen, ropairod
M 1..Soj,-e1I ino8 - Tho' ovcrtrattiUd o woxo t ted on 10 W test=ink
strrncts of Avod rt , 12 k:L1ometors out in tho country i`rom tho centor 'ol'
Copoxrhaen.
~3 eta 1~ 1I wilho:thr Johnsen A/S, Te oT(ilms ads 3/5, Copenha one
a., ra>
woa~king oxclusivoly Tor tho Oe~rran Navy, produced signal equipmont.
25 y 19L Ls hurineister and W ,n A/ss Copenhagen' redo cylinder
hoads 4ox the DMW4`1u motororlorke, randonburg.
9 June 19)4LU The ?ixm Ginbus Cyck~Lor A/s, working oxolugive1y
Tr the Garman Air Force with 21O mon par shift icEbcr of shifts not
giv2 7 works an ' 1-19O tail assernb1ies
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