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| | Axis History Factbook: Heinkel He 162 Salamander / Volksjäger |
 | | However, Heinkel had been working on a similar concept for several months, and was able to respond quickly with a proposal with the company designation P.1073. |
 | | Heinkel lobbied harder and won the competition at the end of September, and was awarded an order for 1,000 Volksjaegers to be delivered by April 1945, with production ramping up to 2,000 fighters a month in May. The program was named Salamander, though Heinkel gave the aircraft itself the name of Spatz (German for "sparrow"). |
 | | Final assembly was to be at the Heinkel plant in Marienhe, the Junkers plant at Bernberg, and in the infamous underground slave-labor factory at Nordhausen in the Harz Mountains, known as Mittelwerk. |
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