According to a Telex on April 4, 1945, at least part of a tank company should have been transferred to the district of Dresden.
Trials with Vollmer's Maschinenkarabine were conducted as early as 1935 at Biberach and later at Kummersdorf.
As the test stations were not ready yet, Thiel and his team stayed in Kummersdorf until 1940.
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The contacts between the testing ground in Kummersdorf and Schumann’s Institute was close, the eastern part of the site in Kummersdorf served as an experimental base for Schumann’s institutes, in the west a group of scientists around Major Walter Dornberger carried out their experiments.