Sigla Sicherheitsglas

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Our collection of WW2 articles related to the Sigla Sicherheitsglas company who made Panzerglas, safety glass for cars like the Adolf Hitlers armored Mercedes-Benz, Halftrack trucks like the Sd.Kfz. 7 Kraus Maffei, Cockpits of German Fighter Aircraft like the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 and periscopes used in the German Tanks. These specialised pieces of safety glass were made in a factory in Gross Kunzendorf in Prussia, nowadays Poland, with use of forced labor by the Sigla company. Sigla is short for SIcherhetisGLAs.

Mercedes-Benz W 150 Type 770K Convertible – Adolf Hitler’s Car

Mercedes-Benz made the type 770 from 1930 until 1944. It was known as Großer Mercedes (Eng: Big Mercedes) …

Posted April 7, 2023 (updated August 3, 2024) by Patrick

Sd.Kfz. 7 – Krauss-Maffei 8t German Halftrack Open Bed Truck Version - photo 2013

Sd.Kfz. 7 – Krauss-Maffei 8 ton German Halftrack Open Bed Version

The Germans called it an Sd.Kfz. 7 mittlerer Zugkraftwagen 8t. A medium Towing vehicle 8 tons. [...]Read More...

Posted March 6, 2023 (updated March 6, 2023) by Patrick

Arbeitseinsatz – Forced labour at the Sigla Sicherheitsglas G.m.b.H. company in Gross Kunzendorf N.L. – Poland

Hendrik (Henk) Hoogendoorn was born on the 1st of February 1921, my grandfather was just 19 years of …

Posted February 7, 2014 (updated August 3, 2024) by Patrick

Arbeitseinsatz II – Forced Labour at Sigla in Poland

In August 2012 Landmarkscout received an email from a descended of a survivor of forced labour in the …

Posted October 26, 2012 (updated August 3, 2024) by Patrick