the territory was remodeled according to soviet precepts: these did not favour private companies. gläserkarosserie re-emerged as a publicly owned operation ("volkseigener betrieb" / veb), the "veb karosseriewerk dresden (kwd)". production resumed with a succession of one-off specials for the occupation forces. serial production started, in 1947, of cabriolet bodied versions of the ifa f8, which was in effect a barely changed successor to the pre-war dkw f8. two years later, in october 1949, the soviet occupation zone was replaced by the soviet sponsored german democratic republic: the division of germany into two separate countries had evidently become permanent. by 1953 43,600 car bodies had been produced by kwd (formerly gläserkarosserie) in saxony.