Hitler's Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich (Part 1)

[IChing]

By Edwin Black

is the award-winning, New York Times and international bestselling investigative author of 56 bestselling editions in 14 languages in 61 countries, as well as scores of newspaper and magazine articles in the leading publications of the United States, Europe and Israel.

From Part 1:
Hitler knew that the biggest auto and truck manufacturer in Germany was not Daimler or any other German carmaker. The biggest automotive manufacturer in Germany — indeed in all of Europe — was General Motors, which since 1929 had owned and operated the long-time German firm Opel. GM´s Opel,

This documentation and other evidence reveals that GM and Opel were eager, willing and indispensable cogs in the Third Reich´s rearmament juggernaut, a rearmament that, as many feared during the 1930s would enable Hitler to conquer Europe and destroy millions of lives. The documentation also reveals that while General Motors was mobilizing the Third Reich and cooperating within Germany with Hitler´s Nazi revolution and economic recovery, GM and its president, Alfred P. Sloan, were undermining the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt and undermining America´s electric mass transit, and in doing so were helping addict the United States to oil.

Part 1: http://hnn.us/articles/37935.html

Part 2: http://hnn.us/articles/38255.html

About the author: http://www.edwinblack.com/


Fascinating read recommended and on-line.

[orleans]

1. bad bad g.m. (i'm buying toyota!)

have you heard about the relationship between ibm and hitler?

http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/

also, there is a short piece on this in the film the corporation

[confuddled]

2. Yes, fascinating.

Didn't think that I could get any more disillusioned with capitalism and this country. I was wrong. Thanks for the enlightening post.

[IChing]

3. If you noticed Standard Oil (Exxon) and General Motors were essential

that helped the Nazis achieve their Panzer plan for Blitzkrieg.

Both fought the New Deal and thought that they were better to achieve than the "goals" of the nation
vs government. Does the bond between Exxon and General Motors still exist?
Let us just look at cafe standards, the price of oil, SUVs and who profits.