Locomotive building was severely curtailed at Brighton after 1916 and the works became involved in munitions production.
They married in 1941 and headed for Los Angeles that summer, settling in what was then the country's major center of munitions production.
Dessau, a center for munitions production during the war, was virtually obliterated by Allied bombs.
In 1942, however, during the Second World War, they were taken away for munitions production.
A lot of trains had been damaged and most of the railway workshops were being used for munitions production.
They consumed a large fraction of all German munitions production in the last year of the war.
By September 1944, 14.9 million women were working in munitions production.
The major powers devoted 50-61 percent of their total GDP to munitions production.
Industry was in chaos, unemployment soared while it took months to reconvert to munitions productions.
Canuche went heavily into munitions production at the time.