The arms factory in Uherský Brod, a small town in Southeast Moravia, near the borders with Slovakia, was established in 1936 as a branch plant of the renowned Česká zbrojovka, a joint stock company in Prague with its main factory in South Bohemian Strakonice. The construction of this entirely new business – literally on a green field – took place at the instigation of the Czechoslovak military administration, which insisted on transferring production capacity to less exposed eastern regions of the republic due to acute threat to the western borders of Czechoslovakia from Nazi Germany.
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