Component parts and instruments removed from downed Allied aircraft were masterfully dismantled by a few chosen in the metal shop. It was also called the radio shop because in addition to sheet metal parts everything else attached to an aircraft, from motors to indicators, from radios to navigation equipment, passed through this shop. The logic was not how well parts could be salvaged or dismantled because nothing ever left Westerbork. Nazi logic was not how to salvage or reconstruct, but how to turn thoughts away from the inevitable death transports. How well they succeeded in doing this.