It was a kind of jolt I had , when I found information in a German site which linked to my site.
It had some information on Jews, which I thought was disparaging to the Jews.
The Google translation did not give me a clear picture.
I googled what I thought was a key word and landed up a totally unexpected result
I am aware that some leading German Companies were in cahoots with Hitler during the Nazi Regime.
Krupp and Volkswagen I was under the impression were working for the Nazi War Machine, that’s all.
It transpires that Volkswagen(VW),Krupp, Ford and Opel were not only in collaboration with Hitler’s Nazi Germany, but were a part of the Holocaust , engaged in forced labor and used Gas chambers.
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A well-known anti-semite, Henry Ford, published anti-Jewish slandersand was awarded the highest medal Hitler could award a foreigner (The Grand Cross of the German Eagle). Ford was even named in Hitler’s auto-biography, Mein Kampf, as the only man in America who was fully independent from Jewish control.
A US Army report shows Ford, the company, as an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler’s regime whose German division made huge profits in becoming an “arsenal of Nazism.”
Like GM, Ford claims to have lost control of its German division, Fordwerke, before it started using forced labor. However, according to a well-researched and damning report in The Nation, “Robert Schmidt, the man appointed to run Ford Werke in 1939, states that the company used forced laborers even before the Nazis put the plant in trusteeship.” Ford also placed a rabid Nazi as head of Fordwerke, and US Government documents show that Ford was in constant communication with the Ford plants in Nazi-occupied Vichy France.
From a US Forces report on Fordwerke: “Of the 350,000 trucks which the motorized German army possessed in 1942, 100,000 to 120,000 were Ford-built. Of the Wehrmacht’s total of 650,000 mobile units of all kinds, 15 to 20% were built by Ford, including approximately 10,000 half-trucks.”
It’s interesting to note that while Americans of Japanese ancestry were rounded up and placed in camps by the US government, large companies like Ford were allowed to help build the Nazi military without much interference…
VOLKSWAGEN was a relatively small company until Hitler entrusted it with making the “people’s car” – the Beetle. Although designed before Hitler, the Beetle was produced as part of the Nazi Party’s new economic policy called the “Motoriserung.” Soon, its factories were also producing grenades, land mines and V1 rockets to help the Nazis fight the war. To speed along production, VW used as many as 20,000 slave laborers – the vast majority being foreign prisoners from Russia, Poland, France, Belgium and Holland. At Volkswagen, the foreign workforce was subjected toincessant beatings, malnutrition and early death.
VW’s founder, Ferdinand Porsche, was an SS activist and chairman of the Panzer committee which developed innovations in armored vehicles. He also played a key role in developing the Fi 103 flying bombs which were used indiscriminately against civilians.
Statements taken from the U.S. Army War Crimes Investigationreport about the VW hospital facilities: “In the opinion of this officer the function of this organization was nothing more than a death chamber for children of slave workers and veiled by the term ‘maternity hospital.'” “The infants literally rotted away with the same sequence of symptoms, vomiting, diarrhea, emaciation, distended blueish colored abdomens and death. The nursery was loaded with bedbugs and flies. The infants cried all night while being bitten by the bedbugs. . . . One mother attempted to take her child from the nursery in a hand bag.”
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On this day in 1937, the government of Germany–then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party–forms a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk, or “The People’s Car Company.”
Originally operated by the German Labor Front, a Nazi organization, Volkswagen was headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany. In addition to his ambitious campaign to build a network of autobahns and limited access highways across Germany, Hitler’s pet project was the development and mass production of an affordable yet still speedy vehicle that could sell for less than 1,000 Reich marks (about $140 at the time). To provide the design for this “people’s car,” Hitler called in the Austrian automotive engineer Ferdinand Porsche. In 1938, at a Nazi rally, the Fuhrer declared: “It is for the broad masses that this car has been built. Its purpose is to answer their transportation needs, and it is intended to give them joy.” However, soon after the KdF (Kraft-durch-Freude)-Wagen (“Strength-Through-Joy” car) was displayed for the first time at the Berlin Motor Show in 1939, World War II began, and Volkswagen halted production. After the war ended, with the factory in ruins, the Allies would make Volkswagen the focus of their attempts to resuscitate the German auto industry.
http://www.theawfultruth.com/salbmw/
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/volkswagen-is-founded
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