note-a-bear:

tilthat:

TIL that during WWII, Ford profited from its factory in Germany. It used ppl from concentration camps to produce military vehicles for the Nazis. In 1945, the US gov paid Ford $1m for damage to the factory caused by Allied bombings. When Holocaust survivors later sued, Ford got the case dismissed.

via reddit.com

Despite laws aimed at war profiteering, a ton of notable brands got their big push from the fascist german market, specifically the literal manufacture of war goods.

IBM, Bayer, the Bush family, are other notable WWII fortunes

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