Editing Opel (section)

===World War II===
Opel automobile production ended in October 1940, after the company's American leadership had rejected an "invitation" to switch to munitions manufacture a few months earlier.<ref name=KL55>{{cite book |ref=KL1 |title=Opel: wheels to the world; a seventy-five year history of automobile manufacture |first=Karl E. |last=Ludvigsen |publisher=Princeton Publishing |date=1975 |isbn=0-915038-01-3 |page=55 }}</ref> In 1942 Opel switched to wartime production, making aircraft parts and tanks. Truck manufacture continued at the [[Opelwerk Brandenburg|Brandenburg plant]], where the 3.6-liter [[Opel Blitz]] truck had been built since 1938. These {{convert|3|ST|t|lk=on|abbr=on}} trucks were also built under license by Daimler-Benz in [[Mannheim]].<ref name=KL55/>