Translations:BSH Konzernarchiv/16/en

Once the reviews had been completed at corporate headquarters, visits were paid to the BSH plants in Germany to locate suitable documents and bring them back to Munich. The factories in Traunreut, Dillingen, Giengen, Bretten and Bad Neustadt were all visited during 2015 and 2016, and the local colleagues at these sites provided excellent support during the research activities. A particularly important find was made at the cooker plant in Traunreut. While examining a boiler room beneath the production facilities, the searchers found several roll-top filing cabinets with documents dating back as far back as the 1930s. Some of the cabinets had to be broken open because their keys had gone missing. Having been exposed to decades of extremely high levels of heat and humidity in the boiler room, it was something of a miracle that the documents were still in such good condition.