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Mercedes-Tanks anyone?

All the companies that were fascist collaborators that were never held accountable are now ramping up their military base. This is what happens when you make compromises with fascist. You will never learn this from a boomer. https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bmw-and-the-holocaust

In March 2016, on its 100th anniversary, German car giant BMW apologized for its wartime past, expressing its “profound regret” for supplying Nazis with vehicles and using slave laborers.

Bayerische Motoren Werke –The Bavarian Motor Works – was founded in Munich during the First World War on March 16, 1916. In World War II, BMW designed engines for Nazi fighter planes, such as the Focke Wulf FW190. German planes gained air superiority over the British and French thanks to the high-performance engines produced by BMW, which replaced the original Mercedes engine.

“Under the National Socialist regime of the 1930s and 40s, BMW AG operated exclusively as a supplier to the German arms industry,” the company stated. “As demand for BMW aero engines increased, forced laborers, convicts and prisoners from concentration camps were recruited to assist with manufacturing them.”

BMW employed workers in several towns near concentrations camps:

Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau
    Abteroda
    Eisenach-Thuer
Dachau
    Allach
    Blaichach
    Kaufbeuren
    Lochhausen
    Moosach
Natzweiler-Struthof
    Geisenheim
Papenburg
    Rastdorf-am-Werlte
Sachsenhausen
    Konigswusterhausen

The company said that in 1983 BMW “became the first industrial corporation to initiate a public debate about this chapter of its history” with the publication of a book entitled, ‘BMW – A German History.’” In 1999, BMW became a founding member of the foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” for the compensation of former forced laborers.