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1936
Five LBE sets were built in Wrocław at the then Linke - Hoffman - Werke plants (later Pafawag Wrocław, now Bombardier Transportation Polska), and three in Zgorzelec (Wumag Görlitz - later Bombardier Transportation - Bahntechnologie - Germany GmbH & Co KG). Although at that time these were not Polish cities, but German Breslau and Görlitz. Another Polish thread, a bit gloomy, is the fact that during World War II, at the Wumag Görlitz factory in September 1939, the Görlitz-Moys concentration camp, today Zgorzelec-Ujazd, was created from a penal camp, through which over 120,000 . prisoners and prisoners of war. Among them, several thousand Poles who worked as slaves in the Wumag Görlitz factories, incl. in the production of carriages or military equipment.
Sources: https://www.rynek-kolejowy.pl/wiadomosci/ciche-kolejowe-rocznice-60-lat-pietrowych-wagon-bipa-94914.html, https://www.drehscheibe-online.de/foren/read.php?031,374192,374193
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