Adolf Hitler tours a BMW plant with CEO Franz-Josef Popp in 1935. On 7-March-2016 BMW admitted regret for the suffering it caused by using slave labor. BMW manufactured airplane engines, motorcycle parts,and profited from being handed businesses seized from Jews sent to concentration camps.
.> Implying they don't use slave labor for the factories in china that produces its vehicles for sud east Asia
Sounds like every Company in Asia uses “Slave Labour”…
The IBM/Lenovo Devices in our Company have many Foxconn Markings as well…
In all honesty Nazi Germany was very prone to nationalize industries if they didn't completely go along with what the party wanted.
Had they not done what they were told to, they would have been nationalized and given to a party members.
Also, in order to hit those ludacris production targets there probably wasn't much choice.
That does not make it right thought!
Yeah I agree
*ludicrous, but that spelling is funny :-)
IBM also designed the punch card system to help facilitate the Holocaust.
They weren't in Germany so can't claim to have been forced.
Fanta was a made by a Nazi after Coke supplies got cut off.
IBM really has escaped it the most of all in my opinion. This stuff should be on billboards and they should have had to at least rebrand and change their names. It just seems like to me profiting off the Holocaust should be enough to end companies, just my two cents. Someone else who didn't help with that can make our stupid Watsons.
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/was-the-soda-drink-fanta.html
Fanta was not a Nazi creation like the Volkswagen Beetle. Instead, a clever Coca-Cola managing director based in Germany came up with the idea of Fanta out of necessity.
Thats what I said, maybe the guy wasnt a Nazi but he sure was around a lot.
Perhaps immediately after the war. How much does it really matter now though?
None of those people that made those decisions have even been alive for several decades most likely. Let alone affiliated with the company.
But see that just reinforces the "if we just keep it quiet for a few decades, we win" mindset. Id rather pick one or two of these firms and slap them with something to set an example for future actors.
I’ve never heard about this but it seems pretty Interesting; do you have any sources so I could read about it further?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
A simple google search. Its open knowledge
Yeh sure they were and it only took them 70 years to apologise.
People who thought otherwise, had be to replaced beforehand. On top of that it’s still a Family owned company. IMO better now than never.
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