English Translation

K0 12/E The circle leader of the NSDAP. P lsen. - Be r i c h t about the S k o d a werk e . A/ Review of the development of the Skowaerke and its German followers. The origin of the S k o d a w e r k e dates back to a small machine factory built in 1859 by the Count of W a l d s t e n in P i l s e n.- In 1869, the small factory became the property of Emil Sk o da, an official and former worker of the factory, who gave the plant its name and brought it to flourish.- This flourishing was greatly encouraged by the stormy development of industry and technology in the second half of the last century, as well as the expansion of the Austrian trade and war navy, by the supply of which the manufacturing focus of the Skodawerke shifted to the armaments area.- The Skoda-werke became an armament company of world reputation, were soon not only the weapons forge of Austria-Hungary, but also The great strategic, political and economic importance that the Skodawerke achieved was expressed in the elevation of the owner in the aristocracy of Emil Ritter von Sk o d a . - No, no, no.