Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States
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One estimate at the end of the war suggested that 15 to 20 percent of all vehicles used by the German army were built by Ford.
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After the war GM would manage to reap the rewards of the Third Reich’s genocidal war effort.
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A Ford plant near Paris began turning out aircraft engines, military trucks, and other vehicles for the German military, just as it had done in Cologne.
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the Ford operation soon began profiting from forced labor.121
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In 1943, an investigation concluded that Ford’s operations in France were being used “for the benefit of Germany,” and that this had been approved by Henry Ford himself.