[Razorback_Pilot]

I wanted to find out what happened to all the Axis aircraft builders postwar as I'm sure a lot of people probably would want to know.(I know there are those who already know that) Obviously most of them are gone or have merged as they were banned from making any planes, then allowed to make aircraft, then merged with other companies and thus ceased to exist.
I'm posting all the ones I knew/found that still exist, sort of exist, or are gone postwar. Taken from Wikipedia. The site that you can trust, sort of.
Germany-
Focke Wulf- formally merged with Weserflug in 1964, becoming Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), which after several further mergers it is now part of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V. (EADS).
Junkers-The Junkers company survived the Second World War and was reconstituted as Junkers GmbH and eventually merged into the MBB consortium. Within West Germany, Junkers GmbH was engaged in research on the future of aerospace transportation during the fifties and early-1960s.
Messerschmitt-After World War II, the company was not allowed to produce aircraft. One alternative the company came up with was the three wheeled motorcycle/bubble car or Kabinenroller (cabinscooter) KR175 / KR200, which was designed by an aircraft engineer Fritz Fend.
The cars were actually made by Fend's own company in the Messerschmitt works at Regensburg and Willy Messerschmitt had very little to do with the vehicles other than ruling that they carried his name. Production of the KR200 ceased in 1964.
Less known is the fact that the Messerschmitt factory also produced prefabricated houses, which were designed as "self-building-kits" mainly based on an alloy frame work.
On 6 June 1968, Messerschmitt AG merged with the small civil engineering and civil aviation firm Bölkow, becoming Messerschmitt-Bölkow. The following May, the firm acquired Hamburger Flugzeugbau (HFB), the aviation division of Blohm + Voss. The company then changed its name to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB). In 1989 MBB was taken over by Deutsche Aerospace AG (DASA), which was renamed Daimler-Benz Aerospace in 1995. The former DASA now operates as "EADS Germany".
Heinkel-Following the war, Heinkel was prohibited from manufacturing aircraft and instead built bicycles, motor scooters (see below), and the Heinkel microcar. The company eventually returned to aircraft in the mid 1950s, licence building F-104 Starfighters for the West German Luftwaffe.
In 1965, the company was absorbed by Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke (VFW), which was in turn absorbed by Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm in 1980.
Japan-
Kawasaki-During the occupation of Japan after the end of World War II, all of Japan's aerospace industry was dismantled, designs destroyed and plants converted to other uses. After the ban on aircraft development was lifted, in March 1954, a new company was founded by the merger of subsidiary companies K.K. Kawasaki Gifu Seisakusho and Kawasaki Kikai Kogyo K.K., retaining the name of the pre-war Kawasaki Kokuki Kogyo KK,
The Kawasaki KAL-1 (July 1953) was the first postwar all-metal aircraft of Japanese design. Early production covered 210 Lockheed T-33 jet trainers, 48 Lockheed P-2H Neptune maritime patrol aircraft and 239 Bell 47 helicopters, all under license from the United States. Kawasaki was also a major subcontractor for components for the domestically-developed NAMC YS-11 turboprop transport.
Kawasaki Kokuki K.K. was dissolved and became a division of the reorganized Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) in April 1969.
Mitsubishi-still around, makes AC units, cars, planes for the JSDAF, vacuum cleaners. But from wiki-In the post-war period, lawsuits and demands for compensations were presented against the Mitsubishi Corporation, in particular by former Chinese slave laborers

[FlyingBoxHead]

I saw how big tha para. was and was like. Wow. O_o

[Guest]

Well the lesser known company Henschel, has factorys owned by other companies and is one of the largest manafacturers of locomotives.

Blohm & Voss still produces Warships and private Yaughts and ocean liners.

Junkers was merged into Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm.

[{HVY-E}Jinxx]

Messerschmitt also produced cars after the war...

http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/frankfurt/m...hmitt.html

[Razorback_Pilot]

Yeah I saw that! A bunch of them made cars after the war, then went back to aviation.
SOME got merged into EADS, which owns Airbus....

[max_thehitman]

I don´t know if you are aware, but if you buy a Mercedes-Benz car or BMW car, or Audi or Opel car, you are
actually buying a WW2 airplane or Panzer tank. YES.

Where do you think went ALL THOSE fighter airplanes and bombers and PAnzer-Tanks after they were
captured?
Who do you think made them in the first place ?

Exactly !

....Mercedes, BMW and AUDI and Opel.
They are all NACIONALIST SOCIALIST TOYS made for the common people and the other rich snobs.

I drive a cheap little German OPEL car. A Corsa ! :mrgreen:
Its metal parts used to belong to pieces from JU-88 bombers, trucks, land mines and torpedo detonators!
LOL

[max_thehitman]

I forgot to mention, see this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_General_Motors

World War II

General Motors produced vast quantities of armaments, vehicles, and aircraft during World War II for both Allied and Axis customers.
By the spring of 1939, the German Government had assumed day-to-day control of American owned factories in Germany, but decided against nationalizing them. During the war, the U.S. auto companies continued to be concerned Nazi Germany would nationalize American-owned factories.

GM's William S. Knudsen served as head of U.S. wartime production for President Franklin Roosevelt, who called Detroit as the Arsenal of Democracy. The General Motors UK division, Vauxhall Motors, manufactured the Churchill tank series for the Allies. The Vauxhall Churchill tanks were instrumental in the UK campaigns in North Africa (ironically often being used to attack German logistics units using Opel trucks). Bedford Vehicles manufactured logistics vehicles for the UK military, all important in the UK's land campaigns. In addition, GM was the top manufacturer of U.S. Army 1½ ton 4x4 vehicles.

Nevertheless, while General Motors has claimed its German (Opel) operations were outside its control during World War II, this assertion appears to be contradicted by available evidence. General Motors was not just a car company that happened to have factories in Germany; GM management from the top down had extensive connections with the Nazi Party, both on a business and personal level.

During war Opel's Brandenburg facilities produced bombers JU-88, trucks, land mines and torpedo detonators for Nazi Germany. During the war years GM declared it had abandoned its Nazi subsidiary, and took a complete tax write-off because of which they have received tax reduction of "approximately $22.7 million" or about $285 billion in 21st-century money. After the war GM collected some $33 million in "war reparations" because the Allies had bombed its German facilities for which they have earlier declared complete tax write-off and received tax reduction.

American GM Vice President (later Colonel) Graeme K. Howard was a committed Nazi, and expressed such views in his book, America and a New World Order. Adolf Hitler awarded GM boss James D. Mooney the Order of Merit of the Golden Eagle for his services to Nazi Germany. General Motors’ internal documents show a clear strategy to profit from their German military contracts even after Germany declared war against America.

Defending the German investment strategy as "highly profitable", Alfred P. Sloan told shareholders in 1939 GM's continued industrial production for the Nazi government was merely sound business practice. In a letter to a concerned shareholder, Sloan said that the manner in which the Nazi government ran Germany "should not be considered the business of the management of General Motors...We must conduct ourselves as a German organization. . . We have no right to shut down the plant."

After 20 years of researching General Motors, Bradford Snell stated, "General Motors was far more important to the Nazi war machine than Switzerland ... Switzerland was just a repository of looted funds. GM-Opel was an integral part of the German war effort. The Nazis could have invaded Poland and Russia without Switzerland. They could not have done so without GM."

How about that ?!?!

[Razorback_Pilot]

I did not know that! But yes, many in corporate America were Nazis or Nazi supporters.
If you ever get the off chance to read Game of the Foxes, it says this, not to mention Germany tried to oust FDR through campaign donations to the Republican party($100 million) The rich often liked Nazism(as many who were well off) did not like Jews at all and also did not like Communism, so they turned to Nazism(or were sympathetic to it) because it promised that capitalism would not be ended.
Now for tank manufacturers, Henchel and Porche, which produced various tanks and ships and planes, Porche makes fine cars as the 911, and Henchel I think was bought by Bombardier and makes railroad equipment, in fact, they made a bunch of the new NJ Transit ALP46s which are built in Kassel.
But see even many of the Allied ones are either still around or gone. Northrop and Grumman merged, Lockheed and Martin, Boeing bought McDonnell-Douglas(postwar merger in itself) WWII also kicked off the helicopter monopoly Sikorsky and Bell have in the United States. Both still exist, both have produced helicopters used by numerous countries.
Russia still has it seems every single manufacturer from WWII, Ilyusin, MiG, Sukuoi, are all still around, although MiG is falling on hard times because everyone want a Sukuoi fighter(think the T-50 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA)
And it will be less stealthy than the F-22A and F-35A/B/C JSF(less stealth, better manueverablity which means that the F-22 will easily kick the T-50's can!)

[RadPig94]

I don´t know if you are aware, but if you buy a Mercedes-Benz car or BMW car, or Audi or Opel car, you are
actually buying a WW2 airplane or Panzer tank. YES.

Where do you think went ALL THOSE fighter airplanes and bombers and PAnzer-Tanks after they were
captured?
Who do you think made them in the first place ?

Exactly !

....Mercedes, BMW and AUDI and Opel.
They are all NACIONALIST SOCIALIST TOYS made for the common people and the other rich snobs.

I drive a cheap little German OPEL car. A Corsa ! :mrgreen:
Its metal parts used to belong to pieces from JU-88 bombers, trucks, land mines and torpedo detonators!
LOL

BMW, etc, etc was already around during the war and were making engines for them, same thing with Mitsubishi

[Guest]

Richard Hammond owns an Opel Kadet named Oliver.

[Razorback_Pilot]

Richard Hammond owns an Opel Kadet named Oliver.

I remember that episode, lol. May and Clarkson stripped their cars down so they would not sink in the desert(it's salt) and Hammond didn't.
Remember the ever evil VW Bug(They hate it, along with some car maker which I can't remember the name of).
Funny how everyone loathes Hitler and yet they buy cars from Volkswagon(PeoplesCar).....an idea from Hitler. Talk about historical irony, same goes for Japan.
Course Opel is owned by GM now and last I heard they were trying to rid of it.

[LaughingMan101X]

So my take on all this is eventually all of germany's aircraft manufacturers merged into one company which is still around today wow thats pretty cool

[Nadia]

Made contact with Messerschmitt ag in 1966. Deutch postage -7 11 66.

Got a reply against all odds with a leaflet; currently processing; incoming:

[Nadia]

[Nadia]

Notice: description of Me-209.