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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 54 points 3 days ago

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

[-] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 3 days ago

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

[-] bamfic@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Tho it would be 1933-1941 in that case

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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 7 points 3 days 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.

[-] merari42@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

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

[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago

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 3 days ago

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

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

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

[-] saltesc@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days 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 3 days ago

capitalism adapts and survives

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 4 points 3 days ago

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

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Not hilarious. Very much not.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago
[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

You aren't wrong.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

also mitsubishi built kamikaze planes

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Did they build the plane that was used to kill Godzilla?

[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago

That's hilarious 😂 🤣

[-] profdc9@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Business is business, right?

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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