"7 Brands With Nazi Ties That We All Use"

[IanM]

7 Major Brands That Were Once Nazi Collaborators

 

[StudentMI]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

I won’t read any article that makes you click through to the content, but

Siemens
Philips
Volkswagen

 

[Beryllos]

Is this an extension of the politically-correct purging that is going on in connection with racism in the US (and elsewhere)? Tearing down statues, renaming places, I think it’s going too far.

 

[dochawk]

Bayer

 

[Beryllos]

Sure, but what part or aspect of my post was uncharitable?

 

[Beryllos]

Ah, thanks. I had meant to criticize the article, not the OP, but I see that even that was uncalled for. Just now I noticed that the article was written years ago, so is not following on the current protests and historical purging, as I had suggested or implied in my earlier post.

By the way, one of the greatest inventions ever to come out of Germany was developed years before the Nazi era: the Haber-Bosch process, which takes nitrogen from the air to make ammonia. BASF was the first company to scale it up to industrial quantities. Without this invention, which is necessary to produce nitrogen-based fertilizers, there is no way the world could feed 7 billion people today.

 

[Nepperhan]

I had one instance when a company’s political stance made me avoid it forever. Remember the “Mississippi Burning” lynchings? Before the bodies were found, the sheriff in Neshoba County, MS continually harassed the government investigators and ridiculed them. (This Sheriff was eventually convicted of conspiracy in the killings). He was so contemptuous of his arraingment that he called for and got a package of his favorite chaw to while away the time until it was over.

The (OH) management of the tobacco company was so impressed with this that the sent the sheriff a case of his favorite chew and featured him in advertisements! That’s like OJ Simpson being in ads for golf clubs.

Consequently, I used smokeless tobacco at one time in my life but I never considered buying any “Red Man”.
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[UpUpAndAway]

Philips

The article lists companies that collaborated with the Nazi regime. Philips had its assets seized by the Nazis. It did not surrender them willingly.

Frederik “Frits” Philips, the most senior member of the founding family who did not flee to the US during the war, was sent to Vught for almost four months because his workers went on strike.

He convinced the Nazis that 382 Jews working at Philips’s factories were essential to production, thereby saving them from extermination. For this, he was recognized in 1995 by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations.”

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

Corrie Ten Boom, who wrote The Hiding Place was a Dutch Christian who hid Jews in her attic and wound up in the concentration camps.

Philips was one of the places she was put to work during that time.

I’m not making any judgement on whether the owners should have allowed it. Living in a totalitarian regime forces a person to make all sorts of hard choices, or maybe no choice at all.