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10 Big Businesses That Worked With The Nazis

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What do Coca Cola, Nestle, and Volkswagen have in common? Slavery, abuse and torture … behind their happy smiley adverts, these companies have a dark past. Check out 10 Big Businesses that worked with the Nazis to see whether your favourite brands are lurking behind the worst war crimes in history.
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Dont forget that many big business uses slave labor and the Nazi state to further their profits and business...
 
The coca cola nazi connection is bogus. Coke bottlers are franchises and not always owned by coke itself, a coke bottler set up shop in Germany before the war, the borking plant owner died in 1938 a and a German who was not a nazi took over the plant and kept it open.

That was it, the coca cola company it Atlanta had no communication with that bottler during the war.

Also fanta was not bottled at concentration camps. Even if it was, there would be nothing morally wrong with bottling orange soda..... They grew carrots at those camps, guess I better crack open another coke and stay away from those
 
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EMNofSeattle said:
The coca cola nazi connection is bogus. Coke bottlers are franchises and not always owned by coke itself, a coke bottler set up shop in Germany before the war, the borking plant owner died in 1938 a and a German who was not a nazi took over the plant and kept it open.

That was it, the coca cola company it Atlanta had no communication with that bottler during the war.

Also fanta was not bottled at concentration camps. Even if it was, there would be nothing morally wrong with bottling orange soda..... They grew carrots at those camps, guess I better crack open another coke and stay away from those
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Coca-Cola; like any American business (man) made a choice... Had the company(s) sent a letter to its franchises as you call them, pulling their name and support we wouldn't be having this conversation. However, share holder stock value was as important then as it is now - right? So, the next time conservatives decide to jump patriotic, they shall be reminded the unpatriotic nature of the corporate.
 
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Gathomas88 said:
And orange soda was actually invented by Nazi Germany as a means of combating scurvy in the face of supply shortages.

What's your point? These kinds of lines get muddled in war. :shrug:
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Just remember that this video message is coming to us through a web service funded by a company who has had a long history of capitulating to the Chinese government in order to increase profits.

But..you know... ​Corporations, maaan!
 
Another Demsocialist attempt to demonize businesses who would have guess.
 
cpgrad08 said:
Another Demsocialist attempt to demonize businesses who would have guess.
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well I don't know about you, but i'm not gonna go back to the 1940's in my time machine and drink a coke.. i can't be seen supporting these guys.

i'll deal with them today though, because you know... it's 75 years later, the Nazis are long gone, there's no slavery... and this **** don't matter.
 
Yea, all those damned corporations working with the Germans. Even Sanrio was willing to sell it's soul to the evil Nazi's.

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And to this, I simply say...

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AmericanSpartan said:
Millions of prisoners were worked to death there...
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So they were all socialists?

Funny how you know so little of the world its peoples, its cultures, and their history..
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I replied to your post in sarcasm because its idiotic. "All socialists worked in Siberian labor camps". :roll:
 
AmericanSpartan said:
No, they were not, but if they only were....
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So thank you, your comment was factually wrong. But how libertarian of you to being in favor of putting socialists in labor camps....


I think you need to slow down and read....
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thanks for the tips but I'm alright.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
So thank you, your comment was factually wrong. But how libertarian of you to being in favor of putting socialists in labor camps....
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I never said it was right, I only wanted only group of people to suffer the crap they made other people go through.

Coming from a ideology that produces nothing but death, destruction, murder, poverty, terror, and all facets of pain, need, and want...You really do need to read history.

Find me a mass grave that was filled by or in the name of Libertariaism, find one...

thanks for the tips but I'm alright.
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No, you are not alright, if anything you a great warning...
 
And what somebody fails to mention over and over is that the NAZIs were also good little Socialists, seen as fellow travelers to many on the Left, just misguided in believing in a Nationalist instead of Internationalist form of Socialism.

And prior to around 1938, what justification would really have been used? Most people fail to realize that up until shortly before WWII broke out there was damned little that could have been used to justify breaking relations and having corporations pull out of Germany.

Up until 1936 the Germans were still playing like good little boys and girls. In 1933 Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. And during the first years of his rule the NAZIs were trying to keep everything looking as normal as they could. After all, they had the Olympic Games in 1936, and did not want to do anything to jeopardize that.

Then in November 1938 you had Kristallnacht, which was the first time that you actually had mass open attacks against the Jews in Germany. Sure you had oppression, but prior to late 1938 it was no different then that which was seen in any area of the world, even the SE USA against blacks, or in England against their own minorities.

Then in 1939 you had the Invasion of Poland, and the rest of Europe was at war against them.

What I love in things like this is the idiocy of ignoring the timeline. Yes, Hitler was a brutal thug. But so were other world leaders from Franco and Stalin to Tito and Mussolini. Should all trade be stopped with a country just because the ruler is a thug? If that is the case then almost no trade will ever go on, especially with the Soviet Union and China which are among the most thuggish nations in history.

And by 1939 the entire issue is moot anyways, as Germany was at war with most of these other countries, and their "internal corporate structures" were then operating independently of the original corporation anyways.
 
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