These companies cooperated with the Nazis
Many global corporations, which today are among the market giants, has a controversial past. For the darkest episodes should include some collaboration with the Nazis. The cooperation of many companies with criminal system has long been known. Others saw the history of the light of day recently. Although many of these companies have long been trying to erase shameful stain on their involvement in helping the Nazis still comes back like a boomerang.
This is known in the market for companies that carry on their shoulders stigma story
For a long time to cope with the Nazi demand for equipment, Bavarian factories also employed, among others prisoners of concentration camps and forced labor.
Known worldwide trudniące company producing drugs. In 1925, Bayer's director, founded the chemical company IG Farben. Bayer was one of the entities in the IG Farben.
During World War II, the company was manufacturing Zyklon B - a chemical that concentration camps were used to kill prisoners.
Ingvar Kamprad - IKEA founder
Recently appeared on the publishing market is also a book which the author undertook an examination of Swedish security service. It follows that Kamprad also belonged to the Nazi Party Svensk Socialistisk Samling. The creator of IKEA has repeatedly stressed that he was ashamed of his past and his actions from that time called the "mistake of youth".
One of the largest companies in the world. Operating since the late nineteenth century, today the company has, among others production of household appliances, aircraft engines and medical equipment. Also very active in banking. During World War II, the company acquired a stake in the company Siemens, which used forced laborers to work.
After World War II, GE was accused of collaboration with Krupp. Both of these concerns, while the sustained military operations, artificially inflated the cost of tungsten carbide used for metalworking. This practice has greatly overestimated the cost of production of armaments by the Allies, which translated into an increase in the resources needed to defeat the Nazis. At the same time, GE helped finance Hitler in the arms.
Giant telecommunications and energy. During World War II was one of the key used by the Nazis to carry out the tasks okołomilitarnych.
One of the orders made by Siemens was the construction of V1 and V2 missiles. To achieve the goals set by the Nazis, on a large scale company engaged in the manufacturing process forced laborers. This is what Siemens has worked on projects crematoria, including Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, and he was installing gas appliances.
The company, which in the fashion world today is the determinant of good taste, during World War II forced laborers used the sewing uniforms for the Nazis. A large part of the company used by the workforce, were Poles and Frenchmen
Once one of the leading suppliers of materials used in analogue photography, today known company that makes equipment used in the printing industry and medicine.
AGFA, as mentioned earlier Bayer, in part carried out in 1925, the consolidation of companies in the chemical industry became part of IG Farben, which employed concentration camp prisoners. In Germany alone there are employed more than 100,000 forced laborers.
Hailing from Germany, one of the most popular in Europe and the world's carmakers. During World War II, the major tasks of the group then KdF-wagen Stadt, was one of the production equipment for the German army - mainly cars and amphibious.
At the end of the twentieth century, has claimed responsibility for the use in the manufacturing process forced laborers. During the war, they constituted the vast majority of the workforce in the factory located in Wolfsburg today. Many of them came from concentration camps.
Founded in 1911, the company was from the 80s of last century, a leading manufacturer of personal computers. In 1937, IBM's president held a meeting with Adolf Hitler. In the course discusses the details of the supply of equipment for the Third Reich.
The equipment was supplied by the German Nazis IBM subsidiary, known as Dehomag. Among the goods supplied by the German branch of IBM, were calculating machines and punched cards, which were used by the Germans during preparations for an attack on Poland. Large role in the Holocaust developed by IBM has played a system for directing traffic. The Nazis also used by the U.S. company prepared solutions for processing information.