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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Tho it would be 1933-1941 in that case

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

capitalism adapts and survives

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Not hilarious. Very much not.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You aren't wrong.

[–] solsangraal 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

also mitsubishi built kamikaze planes

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That's hilarious 😂 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Business is business, right?