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After World War 2 the Russians started dismantling complete German factories and moving them to Russia, but Russian army officers who had grown fond of 'their' BMW 328 cars, decided to keep the BMW factory in the East-German city of Eisenach, where those cars had been built, in operation, so their supply of cars and parts would be secure.
Production kept going on after the war, which rather irritated the BMW hotshots in West-German Munich, who insisted on a change of name. So BMW Eisenach became EMW.
Like the BMW 328 had been for the Russians, the EMW 328 was a popular car with the East-German Police. When production finally stopped, EMW started producing the three-cylinder two-stroke Wartburg car (named after the local Wartburg castle) which became the standard service vehicle of the East-German police.
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