Post Second World War
Like most German producing, at the beginning of World War II the car Union plants were retooled for army production, and right away it is sure that the bombing was savage and damaging, but probably, aerial bombing wasn’t a feature of the early part of the war.All the plants were put through heavy bombing for the remainder of the war, leaving them all seriously damaged. Overrun by the Soviet military in 1945, on the orders of the USSR army administration the factories were dismantled as part of war reparations. Following this, the firm's complete assets were expropriated without compensation. On seventeen Aug 1948 car Union AG of Chemnitz was removed from the commercial register.
These actions had the effects of liquidating Germany's automobile Union AG. The remains of the Audi product of Zwickau became the VEB (for " Folk Owned Enterprise”) Automobilwerk Zwickau, AWZ for short (which interprets into English as auto Works Zwickau). The previous Audi factory in Zwickau, restarted the assembly line of the pre-war-models in 1949. These DKW models were change name to IFA F8 and IFA F9 and were like the West German versions. East and west, German models were supplied with the conventional and famous DKW two-stroke engines.
