The SS owned Sudetenquell GmbH (literally Sudeten Spring GmbH) was projected towards the end of 1938 and formally established in April 1939 (several months ahead of the

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), as the mineral water producer in

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during World War II. To develop the springs for mass exploitation a forced labour camp in Czech territory opened in August 1942 in the West Bohemian place of Korunní Kyselka (german: Krondorf-Sauerbrunn). It was a subcamp of

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. By 1944, the

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(SS) had purchased 75 per cent of the mineral water producers in Germany and were intending to acquire a monopoly.

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Sudetenquell GmbH label and poster.
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