Allied bombers wipe out Nazi oil plant near Magdeburg. High Nazi officials are shown speaking at the elaborate ceremonies in 1937 dedicating the new synthetic oil refinery constructed by the Braunkohle Benzine A.G. at Rothensee, a suburb of Magdeburg, Germany. This plant was destroyed during the Spring of 1945 by RAF and Eight U.S. Air Force planes in a series of strategie bombinh attacks directed ...

Allied bombers wipe out Nazi oil plant near Magdeburg. The Nazi synthetic oil plant operated by the Braunkohle Benzine A.G. at Rothensee, a suburb of Magdeburg, Germany, lies a twisted mass of wreckage following a series of strategic bombing attacks on enemy oil resources by planes of the RAF and the Eighth U.S. Air Force during the Spring of 1945. In 13 daylight operations, 1,246 Eighth Air Force ...