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What event led to the founding of Heckler & Koch?

  • World War I

  • The fall of Germany in World War II

  • The Cold War

  • The Vietnam War

Answer

The fall of Germany to the Allied Forces at the end of World War II led to the dismantling of the Mauser factory. Theodor Koch, Edmund Heckler, and Alex Seidel salvaged what they could and used it to found Heckler & Koch, a new weapons manufacturing company.
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