The ban on aircraft manufacturing was lifted from Germany in the early twenties - BMW then entered the automotive market. BMW started making aircraft engines again, but did not forget to make BMW motorcycles.
Meanwhile, Hitler is emerging in Germany, Hitler's Nazi era is beginning. BMW then severed ties with the British Austin Company and turned its attention to car design. The first Nazi-era BMW 303 - the first BMW six-cylinder engine car. However, Hitler was more interested in BMW-made aircraft than in BMW cars. So in order to get Hitler's full support, BMW again turned its attention to building powerful aircraft. BMW's aircraft were made in Munich. At that time, in just two years, the number of workers in BMW's aircraft manufacturing factory in Munich had increased from 2,600 to 12,000!
At the same time, BMW cars were being built at the same pace - the BMW Sports Car 315 was on the market. At that time, in the world of family, sports and luxury cars, the design, style, speed of BMW cars won the hearts of everyone. Built in the late 1930s, the BMW 326 captivated people with its classic design, speed, luxury, and engine - and within a few years, a huge number of BMW 326s were sold.
Aircraft, meanwhile, continued to supply Hitler's forces with BMWs, even using the success of BMW aircraft at the time as an advertisement for their own cars. Whoever makes such a good aircraft for Hitler - he also makes a good car. Naxal BMW cars were seen in the thirties and forties - and all were very successful. Of course, there were reasons for BMW's skyrocketing success - each BMW had a very different design, and the technology was very advanced.
Then comes BMW 327, BMW 328 with a completely new design in the market. BMW cars were part of Nazi German life at the time.
Even then, on the one hand, BMW is entertaining the German nation with a new type of car, while on the other hand, it is continuing to build various war equipment and aircraft. In the late 1930s, BMW continued to work on Hitler's numerous military projects. This German company under Hitler was building a high-tech rocket engine, a jet engine. However, the work of making cars did not stop with that. The BMW 335 hit the market just before World War II. And the BMW 335 model became a favorite of Nazi military officers.
Shortly after World War II was declared, BMW began to build a large number of cars and aircraft for the war. The number of workers at the BMW factory has skyrocketed - prisoners of war from German prisons and prisoners from Hitler's concentration camps have been deployed to the BMW factory. At that time all the aircraft of the German Nazi forces, the engine of the power fighter was made by BMW.
This success of BMW in the war market caught the eye of the Allies. During the war, the BMW factory in Munich was bombed round the clock.
After the war, the BMW factory had to be restarted. It starts with a BMW motorcycle - the R24 on the road, and as usual on the long road and in competition BMW goes ahead again. However, the story of the aftermath of the devastating war was not an easy one. But, BMW knows how to move forward forgetting the wounds of war - and the people of the world today are amazed at the pattern of that progression.
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