Re:Ford employees ask the company to stop making police cars
by recursivecaveat on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:05PM
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It sounds like Ford's assets were essentially nationalized by the Germans during that period, which makes sense. Seems very foolish to let an American company directly control factories in Nazi Germany.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/ford-motor-company-nbsp...
Even if the old man was a facist, think we can all be grateful for all the machines they built to help the Allies win the war.
http://michiganhistory.leadr.msu.edu/wwii-and-ford-motor-com...
Dunno, maybe the evidence is more mixed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/nov98/n...
By the end of the war, Ford had built 86,865 complete aircraft, 57,851 airplane engines, 4,291 military gliders, and thousands of engine superchargers and generators. In addition to aircraft, Ford plants built 277,896 of the versatile vehicles (tanks, armored cars, and jeeps).