Fokker, N.V. Dutch Aircraft Factory
Aircraft factory in Amsterdam-North. During the war, the factory was used for the German war effort. Air raids in July 1943 caused extensive damage to the factory.
Address: Papaverweg 31-33.[1]
Dutch aviation pioneer AnthonyFokker received major orders from the German army leadership after the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. This allowed him to realize his plans for an aircraft factory. In 1918 he came to the Netherlands with supplies and inventory and established his company in Amsterdam-North.[2]
During the Second World War, the factory was confiscated and used for the German war effort.[3] Air raids in July 1943 caused extensive damage to the factory, but especially to the surrounding residential areas. There were many casualties among the civilian population.[4] Anne Frank writes about this in her diary.[5]
Footnotes
- ^ Algemeen Adresboek voor de stad Amsterdam 1938, p. 1358.
- ^ Rob Hartgers, ‘Ondernemer Anthony Fokker’, in: Ons Amsterdam, 58 (2006) 9 (september). Also see: Wikipedia: Anthony Fokker.
- ^ See: Wikipedia: Fokker.
- ^ J.L. van der Pauw, De bombardementen op Amsterdam-Noord. Juli 1943, Amsterdam: Boom, 2009; Bianca Stigter, Atlas van een bezette stad: Amsterdam 1940-1945, Amsterdam: Atlas Contact, 2019, p. 264-265.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version B, 19 and 26 July 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.