at the end of april 1945, near the end of world war ii, the company resumed operations. the u.s. 304th infantry regiment was initially stationed at altenburg, then, in july 1945, altenburg became part of the soviet occupation zone. after germany split (into east and west germany), the firm, domiciled in east germany, was forced to provide extensive reparation services to swa-verlag in weimar, publisher for the soviet military administration in germany, and, to that end, printed more than 28 million books from 1947 to 1949.