Editing Blohm+Voss (section)

===The Nazi era, 1933–1945===
[[File:German heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper at Blohm & Voss shipyards in 1939.jpg|thumb|262px|German heavy cruiser [[German cruiser Admiral Hipper|''Admiral Hipper'']] at Blohm & Voss shipyards in 1939]]
When Hermann Blohm died, his two sons {{ill|Rudolf Blohm|de}} and {{ill|Walther Blohm|de}} took over. Ernst Voss left soon afterwards. By this time the company was in financial crisis, so the Blohm brothers diversified into aircraft, setting up the [[Hamburger Flugzeugbau]] (see below) in the summer of 1933.<ref name="Pohlmann">Pohlmann (1979).</ref>

With the rise of the [[Nazi Party]] to power in 1933, Germany began to rearm and both companies became increasingly involved in the programme. The shipyard built both civilian craft and warships for the government, including the battleship {{ship|German battleship|Bismarck||2}}, before manufacturing [[U-boat]]s in quantity.

In 1944 a subcamp of [[Neuengamme concentration camp]] was set up at the company's shipyard in [[List of subcamps of Neuengamme#In Hamburg|Hamburg-Steinwerder]].<ref>The camp Blohm & Voss is listed as No. 550 Hamburg in the [http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html official German list] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090423004151/http://bundesrecht.juris.de/begdv_6/anlage_6.html|date=April 23, 2009}} (List in German)</ref> It supplied labour to the company from July 1944 to April 1945. A report dated 29 August states:
{{blockquote|500 foreign female concentration camp prisoners, political, and criminal. Adjacent barracks camp, 11 guards, 17,000 m barbed wire, 380 Volts, tripwire. . . . The German foremen should be replaced by prisoners because the inmate overseers take a tougher line. Work performance is highly satisfactory. Productivity is higher than with the same number of German workers because work hours are longer and absenteeism is lower. . . . The gentlemen are of the opinion that the conditions sound harsher than they actually are.<ref name=Buggeln/>}}
Rudolf Blohm was present during this visit.<ref name=Buggeln>{{cite book|last1=Buggeln|first1=Marc|title=Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps|title-link=Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps|date=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-870797-4|language=en|page=1}}</ref>

A memorial stands on the site of the camp and the company continues to pay an undisclosed amount to the [[Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"|Fund for Compensation of Forced Laborers]].<ref>Herbert Diercks, ''Der Hamburger Hafen im Nationalsozialismus'', 2008</ref> Steinwerder was badly damaged during the [[bombing of Hamburg]] in World War II and at the end of it, shipbuilding was forbidden.<ref name="wend">Henry Burke Wend; ''Recovery and Restoration: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Politics of Reconstruction of West Germany's Shipbuilding Industry'', Praeger, 2001, pp.196–198.</ref>