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Fleabit peanut monkey
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Location: North Canton, Ohio
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Originally Posted by intakexhaust
Look up Steyr - Daimler in Austria during the war. Same scenario.
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Volkswagen wasn't the only automaker with war blood on its hands. One of the most profitable companies to emerge from World War II was SS aider and abetter Daimler Benz whose production skyrocketed thanks to arms contracts, tax breaks, and tens of thousands of slave laborers. BMW similarly exploited 25,000-30,000 forced workers to repair airplane engines for the Nazi war machine.
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