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I believe that the Soviets pulled down the Brandenburg-am-Havel factory building in 1948, possibly a year later. I gather that equipment was spread around the truck-building factories but not actually used to produce a definitive Blitz clone.
The trains full of Olympia assembly equipment were waved through by the US Army in March 1946 I believe, and that left Russelsheim with the pre-war Olympia equipment. As you know GM re-acquired the Russelsheim Plant in late 1948 from the US commission and they then went into production with a modified Kadett. The post-war War Damage claims by GM included the loss of the Kadett and Blitz equipment to the Soviets and explained what happened.
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