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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 56 points 1 year ago

Except for Leitz (aka Leica), who hired German Jews and posted them abroad in “sales”.

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better off not asking most American companies around that time either.

[–] bamfic@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Tho it would be 1933-1941 in that case

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's worth noting that the nazis were probably not very kind to company owners and employees who refused to heil. It's easy to be virtuous 80 years later on social media without ever living in a totalitarian society.

[–] accideath@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Also, a lot of German companies from that time that are still around are very much aware about their past and don’t shy away about acknowledging their role if it comes up. Naturally not very proudly so.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

Just remember corpos will side with the boot if it comes to it and the current power they wield makes this situation scarier

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Tesla Motors: “write that down! WRITE THAT DOWN!!!”

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JP Morgan Chase, Ford, Bayer, etc. Nazi Germany was incredibly popular with the extraction class.

Genocide of “undesirables,” forced labor camps, endless wars of conquest, human experimentation, etc. Being completely untethered to humanity and allowed to do anything for a price is the ultracapitalist dream.

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Huh. I never knew The Associated Press censored things for the Nazis.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

IBM built the punch card machines that were used to organise the Holocaust and they were a good American company.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

People like to pick on German companies for this, but the truth of the matter is that finding a company not involved in an era of ultra-nationalism is going to be rare. That's kind of a big part of how ultra-nationalism works.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

capitalism adapts and survives

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Not hilarious. Very much not.

[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You aren't wrong.

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, Mercedes-Benz. What do you make, BUDDY?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Tiktok is leaking onto Lemmy, and I'm here for it

[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

That's hilarious 😂 🤣

[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Business is business, right?