Working for the enemy : Ford, General Motors, and forced labor in Germany during the Second World War

by Reinhold Billstein

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General Motors, the largest corporation on earth today, has been the owner since 1929 of Adam Opel AG, Russelsheim, the maker of Opel cars. Ford Motor Company in 1931 built the Ford Werke factory in Cologne, now the headquarters of European Ford. In this book, historians tell the astonishing story of what happened at Opel and Ford Werke under the Third Reich, and of the aftermath today. Long before the Second World War, key American executives at Ford and General Motors were eager to do show more business with Nazi Germany. Ford Werke and Opel became indispensable suppliers to the German armed forces, show less

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Economics, Nonfiction, History, Business
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331.11Society, government, & cultureEconomicsLabor economicsLabor force and market
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HD4875 .G4 .W67Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborLabor. Work. Working classLabor systems
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