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Completely ignoring the fact that the US also funded the Nazis and supported them.

Here are 11 companies that you may not realize collaborated with the Nazis.


The 12 Nazi collaborating companies featured in this article.
Kodak. During World War Two, Kodak's German branch used slave laborers from concentration camps. Several of their other European branches did heavy business with the Nazi government.

And Wilhelm Keppler, one of Hitler's top economic advisers, had deep ties in Kodak. When Nazism began, Keppler advised Kodak and several other U.S. companies that they'd benefit by firing all of their Jewish employees. (Source: The Nation)

Hugo Boss. In the 1930s, Hugo Boss started making Nazi uniforms. The reason: Hugo Boss himself had joined the Nazi party, and got a contract to make the Hitler Youth, storm trooper and SS uniforms.

That was a huge boon for Hugo Boss... he got the contract just eight years after founding his company... and that infusion of business helped take the company to another level.

The Nazi uniform manufacturing went so well that Hugo Boss ended up needing to bring in slave laborers in Poland and France to help out at the factory.

In 1997, Hugo's son, Siegfried Boss, told an Austrian news magazine, "Of course my father belonged to the Nazi party. But who didn't belong back then?" (Source: New York Times)

Volkswagen. Ferdinand Porsche, the man behind Volkswagen and Porsche, met with Hitler in 1934, to discuss the creation of a "people's car." (That's the English translation of Volkswagen.)

Hitler told Porsche to make the car with a streamlined shape, "like a beetle." And that's the genesis of the Volkswagen Beetle... it wasn't just designed for the Nazis, Hitler NAMED it.

During World War Two, it's believed that as many as four out of every five workers at Volkswagen's plants were slave laborers. Ferdinand Porsche even had a direct connection to Heinrich Himmler, one of the leaders of the SS, to directly request slaves from Auschwitz. (Source: The Straight Dope)

Bayer. During the Holocaust, a German company called IG Farben manufactured the Zyklon B gas used in the Nazi gas chambers. They also funded and helped with Josef Mengele's "experiments" on concentration camp prisoners.

IG Farben is the company that turned the single largest profit from work with the Nazis. After the War, the company was broken up. Bayer was one of its divisions, and went on to become its own company.

Oh... and aspirin was founded by a Bayer employee, Arthur Eichengrun. But Eichengrun was Jewish, and Bayer didn't want to admit that a Jewish guy created the one product that keeps their company in business. So, to this day, Bayer officially gives credit to Felix Hoffman, a nice Aryan man, for inventing aspirin. (Source: Alliance for Human Research Protection, Pharmaceutical Achievers)

Siemens. Siemens took slave laborers during the Holocaust and had them help construct the gas chambers that would kill them and their families. Good people over there.

Siemens also has the single biggest post-Holocaust moment of insensitivity of any of the companies on this list. In 2001, they tried to trademark the word "Zyklon" (which means "cyclone" in German) to become the name a new line of products... including a line of gas ovens.

Zyklon, of course, being the name of the poison gas used in their gas chambers during the Holocaust.

A week later, after several watchdog groups appropriately freaked out, Siemens withdrew the application. They said they never drew the connection between the Zyklon B gas used during the Holocaust and their proposed Zyklon line of products. (Source: BBC)

Coca-Cola, specifically Fanta. Coke played both sides during World War Two... they supported the American troops but also kept making soda for the Nazis. Then, in 1941, the German branch of Coke ran out of syrup, and couldn't get any from America because of wartime restrictions.

So they invented a new drink, specifically for the Nazis: A fruit-flavored soda called Fanta.

That's right: Long before Fanta was associated with a bunch of exotic women singing a god-awful jingle, it was the unofficial drink of Nazi Germany. (Source: New Statesman)

Ford. Henry Ford is a pretty legendary anti-Semite, so this makes sense. He was Hitler's most famous foreign backer. On his 75th birthday, in 1938, Ford received a Nazi medal, designed for "distinguished foreigners."

He profiteered off both sides of the War -- he was producing vehicles for the Nazis AND for the Allies.

I'm wondering if, in a completely misguided piece of logic, Allianz points to the Detroit Lions giving Ford the naming rights to their stadium as a reason why they should get the rights to the Meadowlands. (Source: Reformed Theology)

Standard Oil. The Luftwaffe needed tetraethyl lead gas in order to get their planes off the ground. Standard Oil was one of only three companies that could manufacture that type of fuel. So they did.

Without them, the German air force never could've even gotten their planes off the ground.

When Standard Oil was dissolved as a monopoly, it led to ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP, all of which are still around today. (But fortunately, their parent company's past decision to make incredible profits off of war have not carried on.) (Source: MIT's Thistle)

Chase bank. A lot of banks sided with the Nazis during World War Two. Chase is the most prominent.

They froze European Jewish customers' accounts and were extremely cooperative in providing banking service to Germany. (Source: New York Times)

IBM. IBM custom-build machines for the Nazis that they could use to track everything... from oil supplies to train schedules into death camps to Jewish bank accounts to individual Holocaust victims themselves.

In September of 1939, when Germany invaded Poland, the "New York Times" reported that three million Jews were going to be "immediately removed" from Poland and were likely going to be "exterminat[ed]."

IBM's reaction? An internal memo saying that, due to that "situation", they really needed to step up production on high-speed alphabetizing equipment. (Source: CNet)

Random House publishing. Random House's parent company, Bertelsmann A.G., worked for the Nazis... they published Hitler propaganda, and a book called "Sterilization and Euthanasia: A Contribution to Applied Christian Ethics".

Bertelsmann still owns and operates several companies. I picked Random House because they drew controversy in 1997 when they decided to expand the definition of Nazi in Webster's Dictionary.

Eleven years ago, they added the colloquial, softened definition of "a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc." (Think "Soup Nazi".)

The Anti-Defamation League called that expanded definition offensive... especially when added by a company with Nazi ties... they said it, quote, "trivializes and denies the murderous intent and actions of the Nazi regime... it also cheapens the language by allowing people to reach for a quick word fix... [and] lends a helping hand to those whose aim is to prove that the Nazis were really not such terrible people." (Source: New York Observer, ADL)

EDIT: Did you know that the Bald Eagle is a scavenger?
How befitting...

removed spoiler, and bolded the part in question.

removed spoiler, and bolded the part in question.

A dictionaries purpose is to add definitions that are in common use, so people know what they are talking about, and that is a common use of the word.

Don't be an obtuse douchewaffle, it was in your quote.

show me.

The bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus, from Greek hali- = sea, aiētos = eagle, leuco- = white, cephalos = head) is a bird of prey found in North America. A sea eagle, it has two known sub-species and forms a species pair with the white-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla). Its range includes most of Canada and Alaska, all of the contiguous United States, and northern Mexico. It is found near large bodies of open water with an abundant food supply and old-growth trees for nesting.

Blazed1979 said: »

Eleven years ago, they added the colloquial, softened definition of "a person who is fanatically dedicated to or seeks to control a specified activity, practice, etc." (Think "Soup Nazi".)

Also, perhaps you may want to look up what a Bald eagle is.

It is a Bird of Prey, more academically known as a Sea Eagle.

Are you completely HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE, or just mostly?

And you obviously have a severe mental deficiency when it comes to reading your own ***, and comprehending what was written.

We showed you what you quoted, and what the purpose of a dictionary was.

Or is this something you require further reading on?

Bald eagles will take advantage of carrion (dead and decaying flesh), giving it a scavenger image, which causes some people to dislike eagles.

I'd call you a mental midget, but I wouldn't want to offend the daft by lumping your complete idiocy in with them.

If it was something you quoted, it shows up. Jetackuu picked that part out of your quoted "information", surprisingly, half of it listed as "11 American companies", were German, and described to you what the purpose of a dictionary was. Which still eludes you to this day.

Then when Sehachan pointed out it was in your *** wall-o-text, you demanded someone "Show me.", and that's precisely all I did.

No one SAID that it was what YOU SAID personally, but what YOU QUOTED. And to further your own stupidity, you intentionally leave out the part that Jetackuu mentioned about dictionaries doing this thing, that explains what dictionaries do. SO great way to feel VICTIMIZED by absolutely nothing.

Sea Eagles, you completely HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE dipshit, are classified as BIRDS OF PREY.

Scavenging, is something that is done SECONDARILY when their PRIMARY source of food is SCARCE. ALL PREDATORS ACT THIS WAY.

Perhaps, if you had even read the relevant parts to what Bald Eagles do for food, you wouldn't come off as mentally defective.

Also from the same source:

http://www.baldeagleinfo.com/eagle/eagle3.html

However, their primary source of food happens to be LIVE FISH and other abundant sources of food found by concentrations of water.

Leave it to Bloodrose and Jetackuu to resort to name calling.

Leave it to Bloodrose and Jetackuu to resort to name calling.

two sources? Both of them come from the same *** source. I then used the very same source, to PROVE YOU WRONG.

The majority of bald eagles get their food primarily from HUNTING LIVE FISH, or did you not read or comprehend that much? They scavenge, according to YOUR OWN SOURCE, secondarily when the primary source of food is scarce.

80=90% of a Sea Eagle's diet comes from HUNTING LIVE FISH or other abundant sources of food found around concentrations of water?

What don't you seem to *** understand?

Yet you miss the point that you did say it, even if you were quoting somebody, it was valid, and entirely not the point.


Like you're one to talk.

Right, because being called batshit crazy bia and illiterate by someone propagating and perpetuating the insults, is seriously going to do the same?

For the record, anyone who says that the symbol of America is anything other than the Bill of Rights is a dumbass.

First and only secular state founded for the protection of the individual against the group guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, enforced by the rule of law, protected by the militia from threats within and without.

That is why American Exceptionalism isn't just some annoying thing Republican's go on about, it's a historical fact.

***, the UK is technically still a Theocracy under the Monarchy who still is head of the Church of England.

For the record, anyone who says that the symbol of America is anything other than the Bill of Rights is a dumbass.

First and only secular Radical Christian (pretends to be secular) state founded for the protection of the individual who ever is useful at the time against the group deemed 'the enemy' guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, enforced by the rule of law intimidation and brute force, protected by the militia from threats within and without forced aboard.

That is why American Exceptionalism isn't just some annoying thing Republican's go on about, it's a historical fact myth.

***, the UK is technically still a Theocracy under the Monarchy who still is head of the Church of England.

ftfy.

American history is filled with hating and persecuting individuals that are from one group to the next group.

It's easier to list ethnic groups and cultures that America hasn't persecuted.

I also agree with you, but that's an execution issue. If a lot of the constitution was upheld and observed as well as applied on all human beings, be they foreigners or nationals, that wouldn't be the case.

The bill of rights is an exceptional document. Every nation on earth should seek to have their own. That won't make things perfect, but its a step in the right direction.

The current state of the US is due to corruption and a lax disenchanted, over-entertained, disenfranchised, unaware, isolated and overworked public.

The wealth disparity in the states is fuggin crazy, yet they're sitting there eating that ***and asking for more.