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Intensity_Momentum's avatar

This is so crystal clear it's scary. I wasn't taught this is school. I didn't find out about how American companies helped the Nazis, especially Henry Ford.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

A superior and very thorough piece. I would only add that IG Farben was another big supporting company of Nazidom. And Charles Lindbergh was also a supporter of Hitler. I suppose some claimed it was a bulwark against communism. But Germany signed Russia up as an ally initially, so they couldn’t have been too worried. American simply had a lot of Nazi sympathizers at that time. There were a lot of anti-Semites. Some might have thought it a good idea to round up the Jews, but the final solution though suspected by some did not become public until very late.

I don’t know if this is true, but for some forced labor, awful as that doubtless was, kept them from the gas chambers. You may recall Schindler trying desperately to get workers signed up to save their lives. That was romanticized, but the basic idea was true.

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