The light basic model was manufactured as "Blitz 2.5" in Rüsselsheim until 1942 and again from 1946, equipped with the Opel Super 6 engine. On 6 August 1944, the "Opelwerk Brandenburg" was devastated by an RAF air raid. Until the end of the war, about 2,500 "Blitz 3.6" trucks were built by order of Minister of Armaments Albert Speer at the Mannheim plant of the rival Daimler-Benz company, while production of its own Mercedes-Benz L3000 model had to be discontinued. After the war, the facilities in Brandenburg were completely dismantled at the behest of the Soviet Military Administration, while Daimler-Benz in Mannheim resumed building the "Blitz 3.6" under the designation "L 701" until 1949. The last 467 medium trucks were again assembled by Opel in Rüsselsheim until production finally discontinued in 1954 without a successor.