Waffenamt
Sign in to savethumbnail|Former Heereswaffenamt, Jebensstraße corner Hertz Avenue, Berlin thumbnail|Former Army Ordnance Department (courtyard), Jebensstraße corner Hertz Avenue ' (WaA) was the German Army Weapons Agency. It was the centre for research and development of the Weimar Republic and later the Third Reich for weapons, ammunition and equipment to the Army branch of the Reichswehr and then Wehrmacht. It was founded 8 November 1919 as (RWA), and 5 May 1922 the name was changed to ' (HWA).
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- Chiefs of the Waffenamt
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thumbnail|Former Heereswaffenamt, Jebensstraße corner Hertz Avenue, Berlin thumbnail|Former Army Ordnance Department (courtyard), Jebensstraße corner Hertz Avenue ' (WaA) was the German Army Weapons Agency. It was the centre for research and development of the Weimar Republic and later the Third Reich for weapons, ammunition and equipment to the Army branch of the Reichswehr and then Wehrmacht. It was founded 8 November 1919 as (RWA), and 5 May 1922 the name was changed to ' (HWA).
The task of overseeing Germany's gigantic pre-World War II rearmament program was given to the (the Army Acceptance Organization, commonly referred to as the ), a subsidiary of the .