Posted on 05/03/2024 7:02:26 PM PDT by dynachrome
Big fire in a factory in Berlin-Lichterfelde! The fire department warns of poison smoke!
Adrian Wentzel, spokesman for the Berlin Fire Department and on site at the scene of the fire: "The building is now burning completely on four floors. Part of the building has already collapsed. We are only extinguishing the fire from the outside. The fire can no longer be brought under control from the inside."
Diehl Metall is part of the German Diehl group of companies, and its subsidiary Diehl Defense (a partner of the German Armed Forces) also has a branch in the street. The company is also developing the IRIS-T air defense system, which is currently in use in Ukraine.
(Excerpt) Read more at bz-berlin.de ...
A “ fitting reward”, Germany can reap what they sow. There are consequences when one promotes, pays for and supports war….Germany’s industrial base and economy is in shambles……I wonder what their citizens think about their “ leadership “ blowing up Nordstream?
Cheap Russian energy made their manufacturing empire…..now destroyed……why does the West keep committing suicide?
“Feb 19, 2024Germany’s economy shrank 0.3 per cent in both the fourth quarter and over the whole of 2023, making it the worst performing major economy in the world last year.”
https://www.ft.com/content/54e674e0-0210-49f9-ba5b-8187b9b86064
“German economy to keep shrinking, Bundesbank warns…”
It’s going to get much worse……conservative estimates say it will take a decade to recover, closing factories is easy- finding lending and credit to reopen almost impossible with our current credit crisis brewing.
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