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512: 173: 498: 161:. About 5,000 prisoners were used for construction works and more than 10,000 prisoners had been exploited for the oil-shale works. When Soviet troops advanced into Estonia in 1944, about 200 oil shale specialists from Estonia, employees of 200:
shale oil and oil shale gas were collected through 300-millimetre (12 in) perforated pipes. Oil was separated from gas by electric filters. Until the end of the war, only 1,500 tonnes of shale oil was produced.
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Nationalsozialistische Konzentrationslager im Dienste der totalen Kriegsführung. Sieben württembergische Außenkommandos des Konzentrationslagers Natzweiler/Elsass
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Holoch, Rudi (1978). "Das Lager Schörzingen in der "Gruppe Wüste"" [The Schörzingen Camp in the Operation Desert]. In Vorländer, Herwart (ed.).
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National Socialist Concentration Camp in the Service of Total Warfare. Seven Württemberg's Subcamps of the Natzweiler/Alsace Concentration Camp
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The project was driven by the fuel needs of the German army at the last phase of World War II due to decreasing conventional
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personally became involved in the project in late 1943. On 2 May 1944, SS established oil shale company
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tried continue the shale oil production operations but due to unprofitability it was halted in 1948.
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However, out of ten planned plants only four became operational. The technology was primitive
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Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe
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became involved in shale oil. In July 1944, Operation Desert became a part of the
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Survival of the Unfit. Path Dependence and the Estonian Oil Shale Industry
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Oil tank in the former area of the concentration camp Bisingen
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Index

Operation Desert (disambiguation)
‹See Tfd›
German
synthetic fuel
World War II
shale oil
Swabian Alb
oil shale
Posidonia Shale
petroleum
Frommern
Schörzingen
Schutzstaffel
Hermann Göring
Erzingen
IG Farben
Geilenberg Programme
shale oil extraction
Württemberg
Hohenzollern
Edmund Geilenberg
subcamps
Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
Reichswerke Hermann Göring
Schömberg

carbonization
oil yield
mounds
peat

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